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 events in Ukraine have radically altered the situation in the hydrocarbons market. The pandemic-induced demand collapse no longer seems that great a tragedy. Now we are facing a much more serious challenge. The political West has dramatically increased sanctions pressure on Russia. The ousting of Russia from oil and gas markets has begun. A serious blow has been dealt to Russian oil supplies. The US, Canada, and the United Kingdom have imposed a ban on buying Russian oil. The EU, however, is the main battlefield. 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 situation on oil and gas markets changed radically in 2021. Oil prices surged, and gas prices hit a record high. This situation was supposed to make Russian oil and gas companies and the Russian government happy, as the former generated quite good revenues and profits, while the latter had a budget surplus ensured by oil and natural gas exports. However, throughout the year, there were debates about the vague future of hydrocarbons. There were more and more predictions of the end of the oil epoch (followed by natural gas) on the background of the rising climate agenda and energy transition.
Dynamics on the European gas market have become one of the central subjects of the global energy sector development. The situation started getting out of control as far back as summer. Prices for natural gas in Europe broke all-time records, dragging along with them quotations for coal and even oil. The Europeans began to view the situation as a full-scale energy crisis. Gazprom as the largest supplier of natural gas to European markets has found itself to be the focus of a major discussion with the eternal Russian questions: who is to blame and what is to be done. The unique situation on the European gas market and the one in which Gazprom finds itself are discussed in detail in the new report of the NESF.
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.