Russian Oil and Gas Industry: News #2

Karl Haushofer wrote:

GarryB wrote:Well a lazy people works both ways... to lazy to stop a NATO colour revolution... also too lazy to stop a Russian colour revolution of their own perhaps... or at least the destruction of anything of value in the country that NATO might find useful...

Yes but the problem is that Russia cannot do color revolutions.

U.S. Top Energy Man Says Russia Can’t Complete Nord Stream Alone

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette believes Russia’s Gazprom will not be able to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project on its own due to U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reports, citing the official who spoke on the sidelines of an energy conference in Germany, the destination of Nord Stream 2.

“It’s going to be a very long delay, because Russia doesn’t have the technology,” Brouilette told Bloomberg in an interview. “If they develop it, we’ll see what they do. But I don’t think it’s as easy as saying, well, we’re almost there, we’re just going to finish it.”

Last month, after the U.S. levied sanctions on companies involved in the construction of the pipeline, Gazprom said it would complete the project on its own.

"The Nord Stream 2 project, which is already 94 percent complete, will be finished by the Russian side," the director-general of Gazprom Export told media in January.

The twin pipe of Nord Stream will carry an additional 55 billion cu m of Russian gas to Europe and more specifically, Germany, whose gas hunger is growing as it shuts down coal and nuclear power plants. The controversy around the project centers on Ukraine: Nord Stream bypasses the main transit corridor of Russian gas and could, the Ukrainians and the EU fear, reduce Ukraine’s gas transit revenues severely.

There is also the geopolitical factor, of course, with the U.S. claiming that the additional pipe will increase Russia’s influence in Europe to unacceptable levels.

Despite Brouilette’s upbeatness, not all agree that Nord Stream 2 can be stopped. According to experts, ICIS reported earlier this month, all difficulties around the projects are surmountable.

“Finishing the pipeline in the first quarter of 2021 could be realistic if Russia is able to restart construction works in the first half of 2020. But it will probably take up to twelve months to modernise the ship and this modernisation is intended to allow the ship to work on Sakhalin fields, actually not related to Nord Stream 2,” a Poland-based energy consultant, Mateusz Kubiak from Esperis Consulting, told ICIS.

jhelb wrote:

kvs wrote:Catholics are not fundamentalist cretins like evangelicals.  

What about White US Catholics ? Are they fundamentalist like evangelicals?

kvs wrote:The so-called Protestant churches acting in Latin
America are US aligned entities.    They are political tools and thus tools of the Devil.

These conversions have been going on for a long time. No protest whatsoever from the Catholic church.

GarryB wrote:

You don't initiate a colour revolution in a friendly country, but if the alternative is a colour revolution imposed by the US that makes the country hostile to Russia then what is there to lose?

West doesn't need a colour revolution. That's why I gave the example of South America where Catholics are being converted into Protestants with US backing.

Ever heard about Nepal? It used to be a Hindu majority country. Now it has the fastest growing Protestant population in the world. Almost 25% have converted. In another 20 years it will become Protestant majority.

owais.usmani wrote:https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Top-Energy-Man-Says-Russia-Cant-Complete-Nord-Stream-Alone.html

U.S. Top Energy Man Says Russia Can’t Complete Nord Stream Alone

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette believes Russia’s Gazprom will not be able to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project on its own due to U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reports, citing the official who spoke on the sidelines of an energy conference in Germany, the destination of Nord Stream 2.

“It’s going to be a very long delay, because Russia doesn’t have the technology,” Brouilette told Bloomberg in an interview. “If they develop it, we’ll see what they do. But I don’t think it’s as easy as saying, well, we’re almost there, we’re just going to finish it.”

Last month, after the U.S. levied sanctions on companies involved in the construction of the pipeline, Gazprom said it would complete the project on its own.

"The Nord Stream 2 project, which is already 94 percent complete, will be finished by the Russian side," the director-general of Gazprom Export told media in January.

The twin pipe of Nord Stream will carry an additional 55 billion cu m of Russian gas to Europe and more specifically, Germany, whose gas hunger is growing as it shuts down coal and nuclear power plants. The controversy around the project centers on Ukraine: Nord Stream bypasses the main transit corridor of Russian gas and could, the Ukrainians and the EU fear, reduce Ukraine’s gas transit revenues severely.

There is also the geopolitical factor, of course, with the U.S. claiming that the additional pipe will increase Russia’s influence in Europe to unacceptable levels.

Despite Brouilette’s upbeatness, not all agree that Nord Stream 2 can be stopped. According to experts, ICIS reported earlier this month, all difficulties around the projects are surmountable.

“Finishing the pipeline in the first quarter of 2021 could be realistic if Russia is able to restart construction works in the first half of 2020. But it will probably take up to twelve months to modernise the ship and this modernisation is intended to allow the ship to work on Sakhalin fields, actually not related to Nord Stream 2,” a Poland-based energy consultant, Mateusz Kubiak from Esperis Consulting, told ICIS.

Russia Is Defeating The U.S. In The Middle East Oil Game

magnumcromagnon wrote:Bulgarian president dissatisfied with gas price talks with Russia

STFU you entitled crybaby, you tried to sabotage the project and now this Bullgarbagebinian wants ultra cheap prices too?!?!

JohninMK wrote:

kvs wrote:
The UK has ramped up its imports of Russian LNG by five times and now imports more than twice what it does
from the USA.

But the USA is supposed to replace "dependence" on Russia by the EU for its gas.

That's interesting, we used to get most of our LPG from Qatar.