The Ukrainian patrol ship “Hryhoriy Kuropiatnykov” slowly leaves the port of Odesa. Aboard the vessel, there are more people than usual: military prosecutors, representatives of the Ukrainian oil and gas sector, and an assault group of...
About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member of the Oil and Gas Academy of Ukraine, an honored Professor Emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivsk Mechanical University of Oil and Gas....
The Stockholm arbitral awards The much-awaited arbitral awards from the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (hereafter, the Arbitration Institute) in the disputes between Naftogaz and Gazprom, which the latter had...
Eighty-nine percent of Russia’s natural gas production comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the Russian Far North and passes via 17 high-pressure pipelines through a single 500 by 500 meter area resting on permafrost on...
On 31 May, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has granted a full victory to the Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz in the case of the “take or pay” clause forced on Ukraine under the gas supply contract...
In 2017, raion center Zhovkva became the first gas-free city in Ukraine. The European Union funded the project which allowed to fully eliminate gas heating and use wood waste instead. Zhovkva, a town with 13,500 inhabitants in Lviv...
“The deal is signed,” “Relations with Russia better than ever,” “Putin is so happy…” These would be the headlines from Turkish newspapers if unnecessary words were cleaned up and actual meanings underlined. The media...
For a long time corruption in Ukraine’s energy industry was the great nemesis of all reform efforts. Since independence, the sale of natural gas was heavily subsidized, ostensibly to protect consumers but in reality to enrich the...
Gazprom has started a game with goals to deprive Ukraine from gas in its strategic reserves, disrupt gas supplies to the EU in January, and to revive the South Stream pipeline project. Mykhailo Honchar, president of the Center...
Miller described Russia’s new strategy for gas market. The head of the Russian company Gazprom in an interview to Vesti stated that the principles of Russian participation in the gas market will be completely changed. “Our...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
