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Gazprom 05.07.2011 Russia to Soon Determine Fate of Subsoil Tax of Gas for Gazprom
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Gazprom05.07.2011 Russia to Soon Determine Fate of Subsoil Tax of Gas for Gazpromhttp://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/news/p/0/news/11919 The Russian government will soon determine the size of the subsoil tax rate on gas for Gazprom, Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin told journalists in Ulan-Ude. He said that the "situation has been worked out" and that the issue is entering its final stages. Kudrin noted that in calculating the rate, the lifting of tax breaks on Blue Stream was taken into consideration. "Consequently, that income will be counted and the subsoil tax will be raised according to the remaining sum", he explained.
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n253784 05 July 2011 | 08:07 | FOCUS News Agency Home / Southeast Europe and Balkans Athens. Greece’s privatization program envisages sale of assets from the national gas company DEPA and national pipeline operator DESFA, RBC Daily reports. The offer might attract Gazprom’s attention. However, the European Commission is not likely to allow Gazprom to purchase stocks. As an EU member, Greece has laws banning gas production companies from controlling the entire chain from a field to consumers, it comments. July 05, 2011 10:20
Gazprom, Eni finalizing agreement to buy SeverEnergia gas http://www.interfax.com/news.asp Gazprom mulls broader energy cooperation with German companies http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20110705105213.shtml RBC, 05.07.2011, Moscow 10:52:13.Russian natural gas giant Gazprom intends to expand energy cooperation with German companies BASF and Wintershall, Gazprom said in a statement late Monday. The statement came following a meeting of Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller with Chairman of BASF Board of Executive Directors Kurt Bock and Chairman of Wintershall Board of Directors Rainer Seele, during which they discussed ways and means to expand their companies' partnership in a number of promising areas of the energy business. BASF and Wintershall are Gazprom's partners in developing the Yuzhno-Russkoye and Urengoyskoye oil and gas fields, and also in building the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline (NSGP). 22:30 04/07/2011Top News
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c32/179131.html MOSCOW, July 4 (Itar-Tass) —— All terms of the deal to purchase 50 percent of Beltransgaz were approved during a telephone conversation between Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko on Monday, July 4. “Unfortunately, the Belarusian side continue to link the signing of documents on Beltrangaz to the terms of a new contract for gas supplies to Belarus. In our opinion, this can only delay the negotiations but make no essential changes,” Miler said, adding that the effective contracts could not be changed until the end of 2011. In late 2006, Gazprom and Beltrangaz signed a contract for the supply and transit of natural gas in 2007-2011. The document determine the pricing formula from January 1, 2008 – identical to the pricing formula used for gas supplies to Europe – and price reducing coefficients for 2008-2010 (0.67, 0.8 and 0.9 respectively), Gazprom said. Gazprom acquired 50 percent of Beltransgaz shares into ownership on March 3, 2010.
Gazprom head Alexei Miller has had a telephone conversation with Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko. The talk focused on gas cooperation, including the purchase of a 50% stake in Beltransgaz, Gazprom said in a statement. Nearly all clauses of a future deal have been coordinated, it says. At the same time, Gazprom regrets attempts by the Belarusian side to tie up the Beltransgaz deal with negotiations over a new contract on gas supply to Belarus, the statement says. "We believe that this will only drag out the negotiating process and will not change its essence," the statement quotes Miller as saying after the talks. Gazprom made clear that the terms of the gas contract for 2011 cannot be changed.
Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/107995/#ixzz1RCvYYeZA Gazprom Delegation Visits North Koreahttp://www.rferl.org/content/gazprom_delegation_visits_north_korea/24255688.html July 05, 2011 A delegation from Russian gas giant Gazprom has visited North Korea. North Korea's Central News Agency said the delegation was led by Deputy Managing Chairman Alexandr Ananenkov, but offered few other details. The news follows a report in May that a top Russian intelligence official had traveled to Pyongyang to discuss economic projects involving North and South Korea, the world's number two consumer of liquefied natural gas. According to an Interfax report in May, Foreign Intelligence Service director Mikhail Fradkov and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il discussed projects including a railway junction, a gas pipeline and a power line from Russia to South Korea via North Korea. Russia's "Kommersant" newspaper reported June 30 that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had decided to cancel a trip to Russia due to worries about security sparked by media reports about the trip. compiled from agency reports |