24/04/2007
The Yeltsin Epoch – An Expat’s Reflections from the Oil&Gas Side of Things
In the late 1990s foreign correspondents in Moscow moaned often about how Russia wasn’t exactly good for their careers.
27/03/2007
Hats Off This Month to a Couple of Russian Success Stories - Wood Group and RITEK
This month, my editor's letter will be a short one. I'm writing from my hometown of Chicago where I'm attending a conference for executive management of publishing houses This morning I attended a session on raising finance for small business.
01/03/2007
Gazprom Calls Up the Heavy Artillery
It's one thing for Gazprom to snatch a share out of the Sakhalin Energy project; to play hard ball with TNK-BP in Kovykta, or to talk tough with ExxonMobil.
24/01/2007
What Poetry and Gas Production Have in Common
That's why I thought nothing of it when a few months ago Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom announced that it had decided to «go it alone» on the development of the giant offshore Shtokman gas and condensate field.
23/01/2007
Russian Venture Fund - A Step in the Right Direction
Though targeted across the spectrum of R&D and not just oil and gas, the energy sector will surely benefit from this new "Russian Venture Co."
