Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GMT) USA, a member of Gazprom Group, announced the sale of natural gas in the United States on Friday, October 2. The Russian gas monopolist has already entered the US market of liquefied gas. Now it goes about the pipeline fuel.

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/05-10-2009/109673-gazprom-0

Russian Energy Strategy – the Domestic Political Factor

 In 2003 a team of Russian foreign policy and energy experts wrote a 70 page memo about the role of Gazprom, the state-owned gas monopoly, in Russia’s domestic politics and the country’s foreign policy strategy. The document was distributed to a limited number of consumers and was never published. It is in the possession of the Jamestown Foundation.

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35598&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=75c7865073

This book was helpful in completing an assignment on modern day Russia. 
 

The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West

Gazprom Wants 10% of U.S. Market by 2014

Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years, deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev said on Thursday.

The company plans to expand into the United States as it did in Britain in recent years, Medvedev told reporters.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/387114.html

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may sign an agreement with China to deliver gas, which would be a positive catalyst for OAO Gazprom’s shares, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research wrote in a report.

“The valuation impact of additional gas deliveries to China could range between 11 and 30 percent depending on volume and pricing assumptions,” analysts wrote in the report today.

Russia and China signed deals worth $3.5 billion and reached a tentative agreement on gas trade during a trip by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Beijing on Tuesday, an indication that the countries have taken their relations to a new high.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/gas-tops-putin’s-deals-in-beijing/387385.html

good work and good posts, keep it up.

I read the article about this,  a very interesting and enlightening article about how this gas monopoly uses their power that would also apply to other monopolies as well.   

Thanks.

Just remember the reccuring theme ... it is a GOVERNMENT sanctioned monopoly.  The most evil.

Barbara Jones:

I read the article about this,  a very interesting and enlightening article about how this gas monopoly uses their power that would also apply to other monopolies as well.   

Thanks.

 

Moscow is not against the idea of selling gas for rubles to Beijing, after clinching a deal to supply China with 70 billion cubic meters of the fuel a year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

Big oil-producing nations denied a British newspaper report earlier this month that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil. 
Russia has long called for less global dependence on the dollar and has reduced the share of the U.S. currency in its $400 billion reserves to less than 50 percent.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/putin-says-russia-willing-to-accept-rubles-for-gas-sales/387440.html

Five myths about the “energy superpower”

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/14931716.html

I do my best...thanks people

Gazprombank reported losses of 15.5 billion rubles ($529 million) after the ruble strengthened in September, its worst month this year, but a spokesman said the damage was only on paper and that it has earned more than 24 billion rubles in 2009.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/gazprombank-plays-down-losses/387516.html

Kla, the US deserves to lose superpower status!! there are tens of thousands of gas wells capped in the states and all due to pinheads in DC and their mindless self serving regulations and self perpetuating jobs. The Southern tier of ny and the northern tier of Pa are dotted with some of them.

http://englishrussia.com/

Tajik Leader Raps Russia on Slow Energy

Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon has criticized Russia for being slow to deliver on its promises of energy investment in the impoverished Central Asian state, state media reported on Wednesday ahead of his visit to Moscow.

The former Soviet republic has been courted by the United States in recent months because of its role as a transit nation for supplies heading to U.S. troops in nearby Afghanistan, further fuelling Russia-U.S. rivalry that has existed in the region for decades.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/tajik-leader-raps-russia-on-slow-energy-investment/387876.html

Russia’s central bank warned that reduced access to credit is one of the bank’s main concerns, signaling policy makers haven’t finished cutting interest rates.

“Stress tests show that the situation isn’t ideal,” First Deputy Chairman Gennady Melikyan told reporters at a conference in Moscow today.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asF0X5nYb1Mk

What a refurbished kebab house and Moscow’s rigged local elections tell you about the state of contemporary Russia

FIRST came the word and the word was Soviet. “Soviet” is the name of a hotel that stands on the left-hand side of Leningrad Prospect in Moscow. On the other side stands a kebab house, which had long earned the nickname “Anti-Soviet”—not because its clientele or kebabs were subversive but because of its position: directly opposite the “Soviet”.

Last month the owners of the café decided to make a brand out of the Soviet-era joke and put up a sign “Anti-Soviet”. But they chose the wrong moment and inadvertently caused a political scandal which speaks volumes about Russia.

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14667887&source=most_commented

Gazprom Takes a Look at U.S. Shale-Gas Producer

Gazprom said it may consider acquiring a U.S. shale-gas producer to gain the know-how to exploit similar fuel deposits at home.

“An acquisition of a shale-producing company could make a lot of sense,” John Hattenberger, president of Gazprom’s U.S. energy-trading unit, said late Tuesday. “Russia has huge shale reserves.”

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/gazprom-takes-a-look-at-u.s.-shale-gas-producer/387930.html

 Thank you for the information on this.