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| Since 2009, Brazil, South Africa, India and China – known as the BASIC group of countries – have cooperated in international climate negotia...

| This paper, by James Henderson, concludes that Russian domestic gas prices are not likely to reach European netback levels any time soon, bu...

| Europe is increasingly trying to to speak with one voice on energy, in particular towards its principal supplier - Russia. The question for...

| In the current economic climate, strong energy ties between Russia and Europe could be beneficial to both sides. But an intensive energy rel...

| Just when Moscow thought it had sealed the Southern corridor through the nascent South Stream pipeline, BP has thrown a serious spanner in t...

| With Nord Stream coming online, South Stream proceeding smoothly and the main German Nabucco-supporter RWE being driven into the arms of Gaz...

| It was built for... well, not to put too fine a point on it, victory. I’m talking, of course, about the ill-named Camp Victory, the massive...

| The Rosneft-ExxonMobil deal looks sensational at first sight, but the actual commitments from the two companies are still quite small. Both...

| Russia’s Gazprom is aggressively expanding its presence in Europe by building new pipelines and buying up gas storage capacity. After a diff...

| Russian oil exports have historically been focused on western markets but the rapid growth of the Asia-Pacific economies over the past two d...