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Iraq Key Projects and Business Highligfhts  In 2012, Iraq has been the theater of strategic step changes for most of the companies depending on their profile as international oil companies, national oil companies, small and mid-cap oil companies. The national oil companies, such as Gazprom, Lukoil, PetroChina, Petronas, were moving into the active development of […]

Gazprom first LNG shipment from Norway to Japan Gazprom prepared and implemented successfully the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the freezing Northern Sea Route (NSR) around the North Pole from Norway to Japan. Leaving the Port of Hammersfet in Norway on November 9th, the Ob River LNG carrier reached the Port of Tobata […]

Gazprom and Itochu completed feasibility study November 26th, 2012, Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom hosted a meeting in Moscow with a Japanese delegation led by Japan Ambassador Chikahito Harada about the joint project of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Vladivostok in the outmost Far East of the Russian Federation. In January 2011, Gazprom and Japan Far […]

BASF runs into upstream while Gazprom goes west On November 12th, 2012, the German chemical company BASF and the Russian Gazprom signed a binding basic agreement to swap assets estimated of the same value. The assets selected to support the swap reflect the strategy of both companies:  – BASF to increase its position in the oil […]

Largest petrochemical company in Russia and CIS The Siberia Urals Petrochemical Company (SIBUR) was established by Decree as a joint-stock company in 1992. SIBUR was formed from multiple entities processing oil, gas and petrochemicals across Russia. In 2001, SIBUR was taken over by Gazprom to resolve debts reorganize the company. In 2008, Gazprom considered the petrochemical […]

Shaping The Future Established in 1894 in Germany for drilling and mining potassium salt, Wintershall started the oil production in 1930 and joined the chemical group BASF in Ludwigshafen as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1969. Based in Kassel, Germany, Wintershall is the largest German crude oil and natural gas producer and operates the largest network of pipelines […]

Energize – Harmonize – Realize The national oil company PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) was established on November 1995, by the Chinese Government from the major restructuring of the oil and gas sector in China and of its national company at that time, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). In this operation the Chinese Government keeps holding 100% […]

PDVSA and Russians to pump $25 billion in Orinoco In September 2012, the national oil company Petroleos De Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and a Russian National Petroleum Consortium LLP (NPC) made of Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP and Surgutneftegas, inaugurated PetroMiranda first oil in the Venezuela Orinoco. PetroMiranda is a joint venture created between PDVSA and Russian […]