Konstantin Simonov,
The Head of NESF | Dear fuel-interested readers! I am happy to welcome you here on the National Energy Security Fund internet site. If you are here then you are probably interested in the following subjects: - Money streams in oil and gas industry
- Competing projects of Russian energy development
- Future of Russian oil and gas corporations
We, at the National Energy Security Fund, are highly concerned about these issues too. Hence, we will try to be your guide in the world of big politics and energy business. Our main goal is to show how energy resources and political power in Russia interlink. «Study what hasn’t been studied» is the motto we are guided by sniffing out the smell of the money, oil, and gas in the Russian government lobbies. |
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 | The pressure of sanctions on the Russian oil industry is rising. An embargo on seaborne oil supplies from Russia to the EU took effect on 5 December. Simultaneously into operation went the mechanism of a price cap invented by the US and supported by the G7 countries, the EU, Australia, Norway, and Switzerland. Meanwhile, these are by no means the first sanctions introduced against the industry since the beginning of the special military operation. The NESF report will enable summarising the first results of the oil industry’s response to the heavy sanctions and seeing how successful resistance to this pressure has been. More reports » |
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 | The new report analyzes the situation which followed «reformatting» of the political system in Russia within the «Successor» operation. Currently the new management structure and inter-elite situation have been formed aggressively in view of the existing model of «Putin-Medvedev» duumvirate. More reports » |
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There has been much discussion about how Russia – Europe’s biggest gas supplier – can continue to supply gas to Europe over the coming decades in the most secure and cost efficient way. Gazprom and its European partners have decided that building two additional pipelines through the Baltic Sea (Nord Stream 2) is the best commercial solution to secure future gas supplies for the EU, where gas production continues to decline and demand is expected to grow.
The boom in shale gas production in the US and its wide-ranging influence on markets rocked the gas world. Liquefied gas deliveries were redirected, altering the already fragile balance of demand and supply in traditional markets for pipeline gas in Europe.
World market has shown interest to liquefied gas. Russia has so far been aside of it. However, producers have announced several large LNG projects. The new study will help investigate this delicate subject and understand what is in store for LNG production and export in the nearest years.
This book presents reflections on the evolution of the natural gas industry and a 50-year cooperation between the USSR (and, later, Russia) and Europe in this domain.
The 24 February 2022 events have, on the one hand, radically rewritten the economic agenda and, on the other, revealed the actual status of projects that have been said to be actively developing for many years now. While before the heavy sanctions one could turn a blind eye to the implementation rates of the plans that were constantly voiced by high-ranking officials, now the fate of the Russian economy depends on their status without any exaggeration. One of them is the Arctic
Tthe beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 led to unprecedented worsening of relations with the West, including the EU. Naturally enough, the green agenda issue arose among others. Energy conservatives began persuading the Cabinet to support conventional energy in a period of heavy sanctions and give up for a while dangerous experiments intended to alter the energy balance. However, the camp of “green dogmatists” does not at all seem paralysed. It keeps on making up new arguments in favour of maintaining the trend towards ESG. In reality, therefore, the fight between the two camps continues. Each has its own pressure groups and serious beneficiaries behind it.
The new study analyses state corporations that many consider a new long-term direction of Russian economy development. Currently, these corporations are becoming nearly the main mechanism for Russian elite to convert and cash out political power. Therefore it is important to understand affiliation of different state corporations with dominating political players, their role in the 2008 election campaign and place in the next executive power configuration that we will see completed by spring-summer 2008. It is also interesting to analyze possible ways the state corporations may transform into other forms of property in the nearest and medium-term future.
The new study analyzes political and socio-economic state of Russia after Duma election on December 2 2007 and possible consequences of power shuffle in March-May 2008.