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  • The Week in Review (October 05 – 09)

    The Monitoring Team: Lina Nagell, Fatma Babayeva Due to speculation that demand is picking up, oil surged to above $50 a barrel in NY. OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem El-Badri stated that demand would increase by 1.5 million barrels a day this year, more than previously projected, amid cheaper fuel prices. El-Badri continued to talk up…

  • International Summit at EUSP: Report

    International Summit at EUSP: Report

    Russia in Changing Global Markets: New Challenges and Opportunities International Summit Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2-3 October 2015   By Irina Mironova and Michael Roh On October 2-3, the International Energy Center at the European University at Saint Petersburg held an International Summit “Russia in Changing Global Markets: New Challenges and Opportunities”. Representatives of international energy expert…

  • Energy News Blog

    Russia’s Interests in Latin America – Irina Mironova South and Latin America is a region rich with oil and gas resources, with its 19% of world’s proved oil reserves (figure 1). This region is yet to play a role in international oil and gas trade: if in case of natural gas, the share of Central…

  • Energy News Blog

    The Arctic Race – Michael Roh The Arctic region bears strategic importance both as home to new transport routes and new exploration and production area. There are unending debates about the ecological dimension of these developments; however, what caught my eye in the recent news is that some countries are more proactive than another in…

  • Energy News Blog

    Turkish Stream versus Nordstream-2: What Is This Battle of Russia’s Pipelines About? – Fatma Babayeva Throughout the past year, we witnessed a number of changes in Russia’s priorities concerning its pipeline exports to Europe, and particularly in the context of transit-avoidance strategy. This strategy was developed in the mid-2000s as a reaction to Ukrainian transit…

  • The Week in Review (September 14 – 21)

    The Monitoring Team: Lina Nagell, Henrik Vorloeper   Gazprom on Top of the News in European Gas Markets Gazprom’s European export estimate (including Turkey) has increased to 158 bcm, compared to earlier predictions of 152-155 bcm made for this year. Exports totalled 159.4 in 2014. The price for the winter season is expected to be…

  • Energy News Blog

    Energy News Blog  The Future of the EU’s Gas Market: A Roundtable Led by ERIRAS’ T.Mitrova and V.Kulagin Michael Camarda  On Monday, September the 14th, the Higher School of Economics at the National Research University hosted a roundtable discussion on the Future of the EU’s gas market. Tatiana Mitrova, the head of the Oil and…

  • ENERPO Newsletter Top 10

    The Week in Review (September 7 – 14) The Monitoring Team: Fatma Babayeva, Jerry Byers   Investment Troubles in the Era of Low Energy Prices: The Case of the North Sea The article discusses the impact of low oil prices on the highly expensive extraction costs of North Sea oil production. It notes that while…

  • Energy News Blog

    Energy News Blog  What are the Ramifications of the Nordstream-2 Deal? Gazprom’s Latest Deal May Provide More Questions Than Answers  Jerry Byers  The deal recently reached by Gazprom and Western European majors to begin the Nordstream-2 pipeline has left a plethora of policy makers, analysts, and buyers with a wide array of reactions and questions.…

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    Renewables in India: A Work in Progress

    by Julie Jojo Nielen As a nation of more than 1,2 billion people, the tenth economy of the world and one of the most rapidly developing countries globally, India is becoming an increasingly important player in terms of energy. The urgency of India’s energy needs is not only underlined by its rapid economic growth and…

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