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...