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Russia's major natural gas producer and distributor, Gazprom, is struggling to collect debts from customers and finance a gas pipeline to Europe. The company needs over $14 billion to build a 4,107 km pipeline from Yamal through Poland which would then connect with German gas lines. Europol Gas is overseeing construction of the Polish section of the line. Gazprom is also investigating methods to collect overdue payments from customers, since about 85% of its accounts in Russia are over 90 says past due, and customers outside Russia are also delinquent., While world attention tends to focus on privatization struggles of the Russian oil industry, the natural gas industry travels a different but also bumpy course toward market economics. Unlike the [...]

Russian energy experts have predicted that natural gas will bring that country's fuel production out of its current slump by 2000. A $15-billion development of gas reserves in the Yamal Peninsula in western Siberia is being planned. These fields contain 16.6 trillion cu m of explored reserves, about 3.5 times proven US reserves. However, Western investments and technology are crucial to this development and to the preservation of Yamal's environment., Natural gas, not oil or coal, will pull Russia out of its fuel production slump by the end of the century, predicts a recently disclosed study by Moscow's leading energy [...]

An increase in natural gas production of more than 400% in the past 2 decades reflects the dynamic level of development of the gas industry in the Soviet Union. Even [...]

The disintegration of the USSR has forced Russia and the other Commonwealth of Independent States to confront new challenges. Particularly, the gas industry of the former USSR faces competition from other gas producers, rising domestic prices and the lack of transmission infrastructures. Despite these problems, Gazprom intends to increase its production capacity. In addition, the company plans to entice foreign investments to be used in the development of efficient gas transmission lines., Although production is in decline, the FSU countries are making plans to expand their gas output rapidly, writes Dr Matthew J. Sagers, PlanEcon, Inc In 1983, the former Soviet Union [...]

Russia's state energy concern Gazprom has announced that it intends to repair the country's extensive pipeline network in order to decrease the amount of methane lost through leaks and faulty construction. Many of the pipelines were built during a period when sound construction was less important than mere volume. An estimated 114 bcm of natural gas is lost yearly due to leakage, approximately 50% of all exported gas. In contrast, North American gas producers lose about 1-2% methane during production and distribution.

Gazprom's Foreign Economic Relations department head Nikolai Ivanovich Belyi believes that the main cause of the delay of Russia's major gas extraction projects is the lack of sufficient investments. In order to overcome this problem Gazprom should eliminate middle men in gas deals and open up Russia's massive gas reserves to attract foreign investors. Belyi also opined that Russia has a considerable advantage over the other republics of the former Soviet Union with regard to gas exports., Development of Gazprom's presence in western Europe is the company's priority for the future, says Nikolai Ivanovich Belyi, head of Gazprom's Foreign Economic Relations department. Cutting out the middle men [...]

The world's biggest gas industry remains, almost, a centrally-controlled giant. Isabel Gorst reports on still-mighty, Gazprom-controlled Russian gas and the rest Based on extensive development of western Siberia's vast reserves, [...]

Isabel Save/London The disruption to Russian gas supplies could kick-start a new EU energy strategy, ministers said following an emergency meeting of the Energy Council this week. The Council is [...]

The disruption to Russian gas supplies could kick-start a new EU energy strategy, ministers said following an emergency meeting of the Energy Council last week. The Council is now urging [...]

style exposure Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, emerging markets have begun biting back. Recent falls in China's markets sparked a ripple effect across [...]

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Since his appointment in late May as Gazprom's chief executive, Alexei Miller has made several senior management changes. So far, the new leadership has not begun to make major changes [...]

Senior managers from Italy's Eni and Russia's Gazprom inaugurated the opening of Eni's new office in Moscow recently by looking back at 50 years of collaboration between Italy and Russia [...]

* Chinese press reports said Gazprom has expressed an interest in participating in PetroChina's 4,167-km Xinjiang-Shanghai gas pipeline project, due to start next year. Gazprom said this would enable it [...]

* A project to build a natural gas export pipeline linking fields in Turkmenistan with Ukraine, via the Caucasus and Black Sea, is being promoted by Ukraine as a means [...]

* Gazprom's board approved a list of 23 candidates, of which 11 will be selected for new membership at the June AGM. Candidates include Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the state vice-premier, [...]

UES claims it was forced to impose electricity cuts across 11 regions of the vast country after Gazprom reduced gas supplies to the power company following a wrangle over payment [...]

Gazprom officials recently said the company will decide within a year whether to build a natural gas pipe line under the Baltic Sea from Russia to western Europe, according to [...]

The period of rapid 'bankisation' of Russia's oil industry has come to its logical end and the resulting redistribution of oil assets can radically change current ownership and management patterns. [...]

The parliament will be asked to approve special tax breaks for Gazprom's planned Blue Stream project, which will eventually carry up to l6bn cm/y of natural gas to Turkey via [...]

Although privatisation has largely been stalled by the country's deep economic crisis, Russia was expected to sell a 2.5% stake in Gazprom towards the end of December. The government's stake [...]

Gazprom, the giant Russian gas company sent two of its leading executives on a visit to Israel. The company is very interested in supplying Israel with natural gas. The gas [...]

Historically, office building management practices in Russia have developed step by step and evolved over time through practical application. Today, Russian developers have learned from their past mistakes and are [...]