Tag: China

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Assessing the Conduct of Russia’s Eastern Gas Strategy

    by Maurizio Recordati The visit of Xi Jinping to Moscow—the first foreign tour of the Chinese president—may have brought Moscow and Beijing closer to signing a long awaited agreement on deliveries of Russian gas to China. By the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of 2006, the two countries provisionally agreed on a 68…