The Ukraine crisis keeps having unintended consequences. The latest is a setback for South Stream, Russia’s planned pipeline to bypass Ukraine when exporting gas to Europe. Here are five things to know about the story. Work at the European landfall point for Russia’s South Stream pipeline beneath the Black Sea has been put on…
“Everything will go as planned,” Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said, in response to earlier reports today that his country was halting operations on Gazprom’s South Stream gas pipeline project. The Serbian government has not made any new decisions regarding the construction of the South Stream pipeline, which will stretch 422 kilometers across the country and…
Facing increasing criticism from European Union, Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski has ordered to a halt to the construction of the Bulgarian section of South Stream Gas Pipeline. “I have ordered all work to be stopped. We will decide on further developments following consultations with Brussels,” Mr. Oresharski said after a meeting with U.S. senators, quoted by…
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said the Commission-mediated talks to solve legal issues over the Gazprom-favoured South Stream gas pipeline could continue only if Russia adheres to international law in the context of the Ukraine crisis. In an interview with the Frankfurt Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, he said that the discussion had come to a standstill because…
The situation around the “South Stream” is getting increasingly tenser. While the EU is looking for leverage over Moscow in light of the developments in Ukraine and Crimea, Gazprom is confidently implementing its “South Stream” project, including land areas of individual EU countries. Of course, such self-confidence of the gas giant is adding fuel to…
Russian Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Tuesday that gas deliveries to Europe via the South Stream gas pipeline would begin at the end of December 2015. “Everything proceeds as scheduled, the construction of onshore sections of the gas pipeline was launched on the territories of Bulgaria and Serbia,” Miller said at a meeting with…
As part of last year’s Gas Dialogues series South Stream: the Evolution of a Pipeline, a series of events intended to put the spotlight on the South Stream pipeline and what it would mean for Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia and Italy, research and strategy consultancy World Thinks was brought in to poll the views of the public and key stakeholders in each country on the potential…
Russia’s massive South Stream pipeline project for transporting gas to southern Europe took a big step forward today (29 January) as three companies secured €1 billion worth of contracts to supply part of its offshore section. The 2,400 km (1,500-mile) pipeline, which Russian state-controlled gas producer Gazprom says will be fully operational by 2018, would…
Zemlje kroz koje prolazi gasovod “Južni tok” neće morati da revidiraju ranije sporazume koji tehnički krše propise Evropske unije, tvrdi “Raša tudej”. Kako se navodi u tekstu pod naslovom “EU dala preliminarno ‘OK’ za Južni tok”, Rusija i Evropska unija su se dogovorile o daljoj saradnji u izgradnji gasovoda. “Moskva i Brisel će pronaći način…
During recent talks in Budapest, the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and Gazprom’s CEO, Alexey Miller, announced that the construction of South Stream in Hungary will begin in April 2015. “We would like to see a South Stream on the territory of Hungary,” Orbán said. “It’s far better to have it running through the…
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