FSUOGM - Former Soviet Union Oil & Gas

27 June 2023

Mitsubishi expects no operational issues at Russia’s Sakhalin-2 LNG after Shell exit

26 June 2023

Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp does not expect to see any operational problems at the Sakhalin-2 LNG project in Russia’s Far East, even with Shell’s exit from the project Mitsubishi’s chief executive said on June 23.

The end of Russian gas in Europe? Gazprom-Ukraine deal unlikely to be renewed, says energy minister Herman Halushchenko.

22 June 2023

Gazprom, Russia’s national energy giant, is unlikely to renew its contract with Ukraine, jeopardising the last route for Russian gas to Europe, the Financial Times reported on June 22.

Turkmenistan: Birthday boy

21 June 2023

The official opening of Arkadag, a new city willed into existence by the former president, is the crowning feature of a grand personality cult. This and more in this week's Eurasianet Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

It looks like Putin is getting his Central Asian gas deal after all

21 June 2023

A tripartite gas union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that Russian President Vladimir Putin started pushing last year is beginning to take shape.

Turkmen scientists to close the ‘Door to Hell’

21 June 2023

National leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov ordered experts to work out how to extinguish the famously fiery gas crater. They’ve finally found a way of granting his wish.

Novatek secures patent for second liquefaction technology

20 June 2023

Russia’s leading LNG exporter Novatek reported last week it had obtained a Russian patent for a proprietary technology it calls Arctic Mix, designed for large-scale natural gas liquefaction using mixed refrigerants.