ENERPO JOURNAL

European University at St. Petersburg

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  • News Blog – The EU Releases New Directive on Gas Contracts
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    News Blog – The EU Releases New Directive on Gas Contracts

    by Henrik Vorloeper In February 2016, the European Union Commission proposed a new directive on gas contracts, in which the Commission further extends its control over EU member relations with non-EU suppliers. Even if the new directive might take up to two years, which is according to Platts a normal time exposure to adopt new regulations in…

  • The Weekly Newsletters for February 21st and 28th are up!

    The most recent 2 Enerpo Journal Newsletters are now up on the site in PDF format.  Not getting our newsletter sent to you directly?  Subscribe to view them before they’re posted on the Journal site.

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    News Blog – U.S. Shale Oil and Its Impact on Long Term Stability in the Oil Market

    ENERPO student Lina Nagell offers an assessment of the future of shale in the face of a glut in oil prices. Can shale serve as a force for stabilization in world oil markets?

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    The Week in Review (Feb 8 – 14)

    The Monitoring Team: Michael Roh, Pierre Jouvellier  India is Looking for More LNG, Australia is Ready to Flood the Market Due to cheap LNG prices, India will increase its imports from Australia under long-term contracts. The aim of these agreements is to take the control of the gas value chain and to take advantage of…

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    Newsletter – Message from the Editor-in-Chief

    Irina Mironova I would like to welcome our readers to the new semester with ENERPO students! We are continuing our activities within the World Oil and Gas Affairs Seminar, and for the next thirteen weeks, we will send you our Newsletter. The structure of the Newsletter will remain the same: we will provide with our…

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    News Blog -Saudi’s Relying on Currency Reserves

    Glenda Pavon-Suriel February 10, 2016 With oil prices at record lows, Saudi Arabia is wagering on different strategies in order to raise the revenue necessary to meet their obligations and maintain their position as the largest OPEC producer. Despite surpluses causing continued declines in oil prices, Saudi Arabia, the largest of the OPEC producers, shows…

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    The Week in Review (February 01 – 07)

    The Monitoring Team: Lina Nagell, Henrik Vorloeper Long-term implications of energy industry cutbacks Oil prices below USD 30 per barrel in January 2016 and rising stockpiles of oil have led to unprecedented cutbacks in activity and spending of energy companies worldwide. As a result costs for companies have come down, stemming partly from currency depreciation…

  • Analysis – SOUTH CAUCASIAN FACTOR IN RUSSIA’S SECURITY OF GAS DEMAND

    Analysis – SOUTH CAUCASIAN FACTOR IN RUSSIA’S SECURITY OF GAS DEMAND

    by Konstantin Golub Russia is one of the leaders in the world energy trade and exports almost half of the primary energy produced. Natural gas plays significant role in those exports. Russia is encountering new challenges in the European gas market, which is the central in Russia’s natural gas exports. The challenges can broadly be characterised…

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    Viewpoint: IMF Distorts Energy Subsidy Facts to Vilify the Fossil Fuel Sector

    by Jerry Byers The International Monetary Fund is muddying the already cloudy waters on how the world should address energy development and trade. The original report, released in May of this year, would have the casual observer believing that governments are using tax dollars to fund the energy industry to the tune of over 5…

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    ENERPO Workshop Series: Maxim Titov on Russia’s Energy Efficiency

    By Michael Carmada ENERPO hosted its sixth and final workshop series of the year 2015 with Maxim Titov of the Energy Efficiency Finance Program of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. Titov’s presentation was a first for ENERPO as it addressed the very important, but somewhat ignored topic of energy efficiency and…

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