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CASE STUDIES
Jun 22, 2022
World’s Largest Carbon Capture Plant Opened in Iceland
World’s Largest Carbon Capture Plant ‘Orca’ opened in Iceland in 2021. It will use geothermal energy to pull thousands of metric tons of...
Feb 14, 2018
Woodside raising $2.5b for LNG expansion
Woodside Petroleum is raising $2.5 billion from shareholders to fund its purchase of an additional stake in Western Australia’s...
Feb 14, 2018
Russia, Saudis may go beyond their oil alliance with LNG deal
By Vivian Nereim, Wael Mahdi and Elena Mazneva on 2/14/2018 RIYADH, KUWAIT and MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Russia and Saudi Arabia are seeking...
Jan 10, 2018
LNG exports soar but local prices contained
The Australian, 12:00AM January 10, 2018. East coast gas exports are at record levels as Queensland’s three big liquefied natural gas...
Dec 11, 2017
Yamal LNG Shipped First LNG
Moscow, 11 December 2017. PAO NOVATEK announced today that Yamal LNG has shipped the first LNG cargo containing 170 thousand cubic...
Dec 8, 2017
Arrow deal is a major boost for gas supply and jobs
APPEA, 8 December, 2017. APPEA welcomes the gas supply deal announced today between Shell Australia joint ventures Arrow Energy and...
Dec 8, 2017
President Putin held a meeting on the development of liquefied natural gas production projects
December 8, 2017 , Sabetta President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues! Today, we will discuss plans to develop...
Nov 23, 2017
NOVATEK Acquires Severneft-Urengoy
Moscow, 23 November, 2017. PAO NOVATEK announced today the acquisition of Severneft-Urengoy from EuroChem, a leading global fertilizer...
Nov 20, 2017
Browse development back on Shell’s agenda
The Australian, November 20, 2017. The head of Royal Dutch Shell in Australia has thrown her support behind plans to finally develop the...
Nov 16, 2017
Rosneft drills world’s longest well in Sakhalin
MOSCOW, 16/11/2017. Rosneft, as a member of Sakhalin-1 Consortium, successfully completed drilling of the world’s longest well from...
Nov 5, 2017
Yamal LNG Commenced LNG Production
Moscow, 5 December 2017. PAO NOVATEK today announced that Yamal LNG has commenced producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the first LNG...
Nov 2, 2017
NOVATEK signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Development Bank
NOVATEK signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Development Bank. The MOU confirms the parties’ intentions to cooperate in...
Oct 30, 2017
APPEA welcomes West-East Gas Pipeline study
APPEA, 30 October, 2017. APPEA welcomes the Commonwealth Government’s announcement today that tenderers have been selected to conduct a...
Oct 25, 2017
Eastern Economic Forum — 2017 – THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Creating a New Reality
Held in VLADIVOSTOK, 6–7 SEPTEMBER 2017) In total, 83 events were held at the Forum. There were four main areas of discussion: “Economic...
Oct 23, 2017
NOVATEK Signs Cooperation Agreement with Kamchatka Territorial Government
Moscow, 23 October 2017. PAO NOVATEK has signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Kamchatka Territorial Government on building a sea...
Oct 13, 2017
Chevron abandons drilling plans on Great Australian Bight, company blames low oil prices
ABC News, 13 October, 2017. Major international energy company Chevron has announced it has joined BP in abandoning plans to drill in the...
Jul 14, 2017
NOVATEK Joins the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel and the SEA\LNG Association
Moscow, 14 July 2017. Novatek Gas & Power, a wholly owned trading subsidiary of NOVATEK has joined the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel...
Jul 14, 2017
Shell to shut Curtis Island LNG export plant for maintenance in October
(World LNG News, 14 Jul 2017) The exact timing of the shutdown has not been revealed by QGC, Shell’s unit operating the two two-train LNG...
Jul 10, 2017
NOVATEK Reports Preliminary Operating Data for the First Half 2017
Moscow, 10 July 2017. PAO NOVATEK reported today preliminary operating data for the first half 2017. NOVATEK’s marketable hydrocarbons...
Jul 7, 2017
Australia trims 2017-18 LNG export forecast by 3.8 mil mt on Ichthys delay
(Sydney, Platts, 7 Jul 2017) The Australian government Friday lowered its forecast for the country’s fiscal 2017-18 (July-June) LNG...
Jul 5, 2017
Australian average wholesale gas prices remain below Asian average
(APPEA Media Release (extract), 5 July 2017). Average wholesale gas prices in Australia remain lower compared to the average in the...
Jul 1, 2017
Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman says gas industry ‘out to lunch’
Sydney Morning Herald, July 2017. Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman has raised the hackles of his rivals, telling the...
Jun 30, 2017
Russia’s Rosneft set for global gas tussle with Gazprom
(MOSCOW, Reuters, by Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova on 6/30/2017 ). Russia’s Rosneft, the world’s top listed oil producer, wants...
Jun 30, 2017
Prelude floating LNG facility sails toward Australia
(OGJ Online, June 30, 2017). The Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) facility is en route from its construction site in South Korea to offshore...
Jun 28, 2017
Australia’s North West Shelf LNG facility hit by Karratha plant outage
LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) – Work to restart production at Australia’s Woodside-operated Karratha Gas Plant, which hosts the North West...
Jun 28, 2017
Russia cuts oil output in June by 305,000-308,000 bpd in comparison to October
MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax) – Russia has cut oil output in June by 305,000-308,000 barrels per day (bpd) in comparison to October levels,...
Jun 26, 2017
Russia’s Mikhail Fridman drops bid for West Texas assets on political concerns
Fridman’s investment company, LetterOne, has pulled out of an U.S. investment to avoid resistance from an unexpected corner — the Trump...
Jun 26, 2017
Gazprom smells opportunity as UK’s biggest gas store closes, 26 June, 2017, from ‘World Oil’-Extract
Gazprom PJSC is in talks to ramp up natural gas sales in the UK as coal plants are shuttered and the nation’s biggest storage site is...
Jun 26, 2017
Putin, Gazprom CEO, and Allseas CEO meet on pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit to begin TurkStream pip
The offshore pipeline which will carry Russian gas to Turkey, will consist of four parallel pipelines running through the Black Sea. The...
Jun 23, 2017
Russia’s Novatek aims topple Qatar from LNG top spot
Yamal project could be completed earlier than expected * Arctic LNG 2 construction in 2019 subject to final decision * Both projects...
Jun 21, 2017
Gazprom Neft begins exploratory drilling in the Sea of Okhotsk
Gazpromneft Sakhalin (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft) has begun drilling the first exploratory well at the Ayashsky licence block, located...
Mar 16, 2017
U.S. concerns rise over Russian intentions in the Arctic, March, 2017, from ‘World Oil’ (Extract)
Back in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released an assessment of Arctic undiscovered, technically recoverable, conventional oil...
May 13, 2014
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the Socio-Economic Development of the Far East of Russia
These reports have been provided courtesy of Kinross Gold Corporation. http://kinross.com/ Kinross Gold Corporation engaged the Centre...
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