Oil Industry News

Countdown On The Baltic Sea - Will Baby Herring And Conservationists Delay Russia-...
Thu 11 Mar 2010 11:45pm
Preparations are fast taking shape for the construction of the controversial Nord Stream natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany this spring....


India's ONGC and Russia in energy pact talks
Thu 11 Mar 2010 7:48pm
India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects to help cement an energy partnership...


Gazprom, Gasunie discuss Nord Stream construction (RosBusinessConsulting)
Thu 11 Mar 2010 10:01am
RBC, 11.03.2010, Moscow 12:43:44. Gazprom's Chairman of the Executive Committee Alexei Miller and President of the Dutch company Gasunie Marcel Kramer held a business meeting in Mosc......


Gazprom's Italian partner proposes South Stream-Nabucco merger (Russian Informatio...
Thu 11 Mar 2010 8:51am
Italy's Eni SpA, which is Gazprom's partner in the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas pipeline project, proposed uniting it with its Nabucco rival to boost overall revenues...


Italy's Eni wants rival gas pipelines to collaborate (EurActiv)
Thu 11 Mar 2010 7:37am
South Stream and Nabucco, the two competing gas pipeline projects supported by Russia and the EU respectively, should combine efforts in a joint cost-cutting drive, according to Eni,......


Gazprom challenged by alternative gas (UPI)
Wed 10 Mar 2010 2:34pm
MOSCOW, March 10 (UPI) -- Shale and coal-bed methane gas projects in the United States could undermine the global status of Russian energy giant Gazprom, data indicate....


Eni: South Stream, Nabucco Should Combine to Cut Costs (Novinite.com)
Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:06pm
The rivaling gas pipeline projects in southern Europe, South Stream and Nabucco, should combine to cut costs, the chief executive of one of the partners in South Stream has suggested....


Ukraine To Join Nord Stream (OfficialWire)
Wed 10 Mar 2010 11:35am
An Ukrainian security expert said Kiev is eager to join European-Russian energy projects such as the Nord Stream pipeline. Ukraine will switch to a more pragmatic foreign policy unde......


Essar Steel seeks CISF protection for its pipeline (Press Trust of India)
Wed 10 Mar 2010 11:07am
New Delhi, Mar 10 (PTI) Sensing danger from Naxals, Essar Steel, part of the USD 15 billion Essar Group, has approached the Union Home Ministry for security cover to its 267-km long ......


Transnet Pipeline Costs Increase by 22%, Business Day Reports (Bloomberg)
Wed 10 Mar 2010 7:06am
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Transnet Ltd.?s multiproduct pipeline in South Africa will cost 2.75 billion rand ($371.5 million) more because of increased engineering and other costs, Busi......