- 18:36 31/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has pledged an 11-percent gas discount for Bulgaria in exchange for faster progress on the construction of the Bulgarian leg of the South Stream gas pipeline, Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev said.
- 17:37 15/03/2012 ATHENS, March 15 (RIA Novosti)
Greek prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into an alleged aborted secret service plot to assassinate the country’s former Prime Minister over a gas deal with Russia, the Athens News Agency reported.
- 17:46 22/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday instructed Gazprom to build the South Stream gas pipeline intended to carry natural gas to Europe with a maximum annual capacity of 63 billion cubic meters.
- 14:47 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian energy giant Gazprom will make a final investment decision on the South Stream gas pipeline project intended to carry natural gas to Europe, bypassing transit countries, in November this year, Gazprom said on Wednesday.
- 15:04 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian gas giant Gazprom will build a connection to Montenegro in the South Stream gas pipeline, which is to carry Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Europe, the company said on Friday.
- 17:27 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Construction of the South Stream gas pipeline intended to carry Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Europe will start in December 2012, and not 2013 as previously planned, gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Friday.
- 16:12 28/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) –
Turkey has given Russia a final permit to build the South Stream gas pipeline intended to carry Russian natural gas under the Black Sea to Europe, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
- 15:05 28/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom will not abandon its plans to implement the South Stream gas pipeline project, even if it reaches agreement with Ukraine on operating its gas transportation system, Gazprom export head Alexander Medvedev said on Wednesday.
- 15:27 26/09/2011 Interview with Alexei Khaitun
In recent years Russia has faced some serious problems with gas transit. Many believe that Russia’s Nord Stream and South Stream projects will be a way out of the situation.
- 15:18 26/09/2011
In recent years Russia has faced some serious problems with gas transit. Many believe that Russia’s Nord Stream and South Stream projects will be a way out of the situation.
- 20:26 16/09/2011 RIA Novosti economic commentator Maria Selivanova
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has proposed building one more gas pipeline across his country instead of the planned South Stream project bypassing it. Analysts say Russia is unlikely to support the idea because its goal is to minimize transit risks for its gas deliveries to Europe.
- 15:29 16/09/2011 SOCHI, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
Participants of the South Stream pipeline project, intended to carry Russian gas along the bed of the Black Sea to Europe, will present its investment plan to banks in the second quarter of 2012, Paolo Scaroni, chief executive officer of Eni, one of South Stream shareholders, said on Friday.
- 12:55 16/09/2011 YALTA, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych suggested on Friday building the South Stream, a project aimed at diversifying Russian gas routes away from transit countries, through Ukrainian territory.
- 17:28 06/09/2011 VYBORG, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Electricite de France (EDF) and Germany's Wintershall will each get 15 percent and Italy's Eni will obtain 20 percent in Russia's $21.5-billion South Stream project, intended to deliver Central Asian and Russian natural gas to Europe under the Black Sea, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Tuesday.
- 05:04 11/06/2011
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said he hopes Russia gives up its South Stream project.
- 05:58 01/06/2011
The South Stream project, which Greece carries out jointly with Russia, remains a priority for the country, the Greek energy minister said.
- 20:45 25/05/2011
Germany's energy group E.On might join the South Stream pipeline project, designed to carry gas to Europe under the Black Sea, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Wednesday.
- 18:28 25/05/2011
The European Union will not impose unreasonable limits on the South Stream pipeline project, designed to carry gas to Europe under the Black Sea, EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said on Wednesday.
- 21:44 23/05/2011
Russia will suggest to the European Union that the South Stream gas pipeline be a continuation of Russian trans-border pipelines, which will prevent third parties from accessing it, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Monday.
- 05:25 30/04/2011
Kiev maintains its position that the South Stream pipeline project, designed to pump gas from Russia to Europe bypassing Ukraine, is a threat to Ukraine's national security, the country's energy minister, Yury Boiko, said.
- 02:07 19/04/2011
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will set off on Tuesday on a Balkan tour with an extensive diplomatic and economic agenda.
- 17:01 08/04/2011
Turkey has permitted Russia's gas giant Gazprom to carry out offshore prospecting under the South Stream pipeline project, designed to carry gas to Europe under the Black Sea, Pavel Oderov, head of Gazprom's external economic activities department, said on Friday.
- 23:30 22/03/2011
Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Tuesday it could prolong its contract with Slovenia from 2017 to 2035 and increase exports from 500 million to 1.7 billion cubic meters a year.
- 22:53 22/03/2011
Russian gas giant Gazprom and Slovenia's Geoplin Plinovodi signed a deal on Tuesday to set up a joint venture to build the Slovenian section of the South Stream gas pipeline.
- 22:49 22/03/2011
Russia hopes Turkey will eventually give the green light to the section of the South Stream gas pipeline project that crosses its territory, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
- 21:48 22/03/2011
Russian gas giant Gazprom and Slovenia's Geoplin Plinovodi signed a deal on Tuesday to set up a joint venture to build the Slovenian section of the South Stream gas pipeline.
- 18:15 22/03/2011
Russia's gas giant Gazprom wants to exempt the Slovenian part of the South Stream pipeline, designed to carry gas to Europe under the Black Sea, from European Union legislation, documents prepared for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Ljubljana said on Tuesday.
- 22:06 21/03/2011
Germany's BASF on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia's gas giant Gazprom to enter the South Stream pipeline project.
- 21:35 21/03/2011
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head a delegation to Serbia and Slovenia on March 22-23 to discuss the implementation of the South Stream project and the European energy situation, deputy chief of the Russian government's office Yuri Ushakov said on Monday.
- 21:09 21/03/2011
Germany's BASF plans to sign a memorandum with Gazprom later on Monday to enter the South Stream pipeline project, BASF board chairman Juergen Hambrecht said.
- 18:47 17/03/2011
"South Stream is an alternative an additional way of supplying Russian gas to European consumers, and here we can only talk about an alternative offshore route of the pipeline," Shmatko said.
- 05:43 17/03/2011
Russia is studying possibilities to lower the cost of its South Stream gas pipeline project or replace it with a project stipulating liquefied natural gas supplies to Europe, the Kommersant business daily said on Thursday, quoting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin.
- 15:54 16/02/2011
Russia's gas giant Gazprom plans to establish a joint venture with Slovenia's gas transport company Geoplin Plinovodi in March 2011 to oversee construction of the Slovenian part of the South Stream pipeline project intended to bring Russian gas to Europe across the Black Sea, Igor Schyogolev, co-chairman of the Russian-Slovenian intergovernmental commission, said on Wednesday.
- 02:59 25/12/2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych suggested that Russia should give up its South Stream project and take part in modernizing Ukraine's gas transportation system instead.
- 11:23 16/12/2010
Russian gas giant Gazprom has received a 50% stake in South Stream Bulgaria AD, the joint venture operating the Bulgarian sector of the South Stream pipeline project, which will pump gas to Southern and Central Europe, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
- 22:29 13/12/2010
The construction of the Greek section of the South Stream pipeline is estimated at 750 million euros, Greek Deputy Minister for Environment and Energy Ioannis Maniatis said on Monday.
- 12:31 06/12/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday rejected as unfounded allegations that Russia's Nord Stream and South Stream pipeline project projects were aimed at making Europe dependent on Russian energy supplies.
- 14:09 22/11/2010
European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger admitted on Monday that Russia's South Stream gas pipeline is a potential competitor to the EU-backed Nabucco project.
- 17:56 15/11/2010
A Russian-Bulgarian agreement on the South Stream gas pipeline project should be changed so that other European Union countries have access to the pipeline, European Commission representative Marlene Holzner said on Monday.
- 20:19 13/11/2010
South Stream pipeline may be put into operation in August 2015, four months earlier than planned, Russia's gas giant CEO said on Saturday.
- 19:17 13/11/2010
Russia's gas giant Gazprom signed a deal with Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) on establishing a South Stream Bulgaria AD joint venture to oversee the construction of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream pipeline.
- 18:51 13/11/2010
Russia's gas giant Gazprom signed a deal with Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) on establishing a South Stream Bulgaria AD joint venture to oversee the construction of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream pipeline.
- 18:30 13/11/2010
Russia's gas giant Gazprom signed a deal with Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) on establishing a South Stream Bulgaria AD joint venture by the end of the year to oversee the construction of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream pipeline.
- 02:28 13/11/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss Russian-Bulgarian energy cooperation with his Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Borisov during a working visit to Sofia on November 13.
- 20:48 12/11/2010
Russia and Bulgaria will set up a joint stock company next week to oversee the construction of the Bulgarian section of the South Stream Gas Pipeline, in the last stage before the completion of the project, the Russian government's press service said on Friday.
- 22:44 05/11/2010
Bulgaria and Russia's gas giant Gazprom have proceeded to the selection of a feasibility study contractor for the Bulgarian segment of the South Stream pipeline, Gazprom's press service said on Friday.
- 21:23 22/10/2010
Russia's gas giant Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding on Friday signed an agreement to implement a feasibility study of the Bulgarian segment of the South Stream gas pipeline.
- 15:31 21/10/2010
Russia and Bulgaria will set up a joint venture to develop a feasibility study of the Bulgarian part of the South Stream pipeline by November 15, the Russian government said on Thursday following a telephone conversation between Russia Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
- 15:04 15/10/2010
Russia's state-controlled gas export monopoly Gazprom will sign an agreement with Bulgaria on a feasibility study of the Bulgarian part of the South Stream pipeline.
- 17:25 13/10/2010
An intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Romania on cooperation in the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline may be signed in the first quarter of 2011, Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Wednesday.
- 14:17 08/10/2010
German companies and Romania are showing interest in Russia's gas pipeline project South Stream, which will carry Russian gas under the Black Sea to Europe, Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller said on Friday.
- 14:04 28/09/2010
Macedonia will hold talks on October 1 with Russian gas giant Gazprom on joining the South Stream gas pipeline project, which will bring Russian gas to Europe via the Black Sea, Macedonia's Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 10:45 21/09/2010
Wintershall, the oil and gas subsidiary of Germany's BASF, may join the South Stream project to pump Russian gas to Western Europe by the end of this year, the Kommersant business daily said on Tuesday.
- 23:43 18/09/2010
Serbia is planning to beсome the first European country to begin constructing an onshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline, designed to transport Russian gas to western Europe, by the end of 2012, the head of the country's state-run Srbijagas company said on Saturday.
- 12:24 16/09/2010
The Bosnian Serb Republic plans to join the South Stream gas pipeline project, which will bring Russian gas to Europe via the Black Sea, Milorad Dodik, prime minister of Bosnia's Serb Republic, said on Thursday.
- 20:57 06/09/2010
The South Stream pipeline will be constructed as quickly as Nord Stream, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting with the members of Valdai international discussion club.
- 11:04 24/08/2010
Russian energy giant Gazprom may build a gas pipeline from Russia to China before it implements the South Stream project, planned for gas transportation across the Black Sea, a business daily said on Tuesday.
- 23:20 07/08/2010
Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov and Serbian President, Boris Tadic have decided on onshore route of the South Stream pipeline designed to transport Russian gas to western Europe, Borisov told bTV channel on Saturday.
- 20:56 30/07/2010
The Russian energy giant Gazprom does not regard the Nabucco gas pipeline project as a rival to its own South Stream project, Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev said on Friday.
- 01:49 27/07/2010
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will visit Bulgaria on Tuesday in a bid to persuade the Bulgarian authorities to give the green light for the construction of the South Stream pipeline designed to transport Russian gas to western Europe.
- 23:26 21/07/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed the Russian-Bulgarian energy cooperation with his Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Borisov in a telephone conversation on Wednesday, the Russian government's press service said.
- 18:17 17/07/2010
Results of Russia-Bulgarian gas talks provide confidence in a continuation of strategic mutually beneficial and long-lasting partnership between both countries, Russian Energy Minister said.
- 12:06 17/07/2010
Russia and Bulgaria signed on Friday a road map for the technical and economic assessment of Bulgaria's section of the South Stream gas pipeline, an advisor to the Russian Energy Ministry said.
- 22:47 16/07/2010
Russia and Bulgaria will set up a joint venture on the South Stream project by February, 2011, the Novinite.com news portal said on Friday, citing Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov.
- 11:02 14/07/2010
The possible participation of a strong German partner in the Russian-Italian South Stream gas pipeline project could undermine the rival Nabucco pipeline, Kommersant business daily said on Wednesday.
- 15:15 08/07/2010
The South Stream gas pipeline project, which is due to transit Russian gas to Europe bypassing Ukrainian territory, is pointless, Ukraine's foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 13:42 07/07/2010
Bulgaria has agreed to participate in the South Stream project, and the agreement will be signed on July 16, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Wednesday.
- 12:33 07/07/2010
Bulgaria has agreed to participate in the South Stream project, and the agreement will be signed on July 16, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said on Wednesday.
- 15:54 06/07/2010
The road map for the South Stream gas pipeline via Bulgaria will be finally coordinated on July 8, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Tuesday.
- 00:57 06/07/2010
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will visit Bulgaria on Tuesday to discuss the uncertain future of two joint energy projects - the South Stream gas pipeline and the nuclear power plant construction in Belene.
- 21:50 19/06/2010
The head of the Dutch Gasunie company, Marcel Kramer, has been named chairman of the board of directors and executive director of the South Stream gas pipeline project, Russia's gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced on Saturday.
- 20:26 19/06/2010
The head of the Dutch Gasunie company, Marcel Kramer, has been named chairman of the board of directors and executive director of the South Stream gas pipeline project, Russia's gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced on Saturday.
- 19:50 19/06/2010
Russian gas giant Gazprom will not grant 10% of its shares in the South Stream gas pipeline project to France's Electricite de France (EdF), Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller said on Saturday.
- 19:41 19/06/2010
Russian gas giant Gazprom will not grant 10% of its shares in the South Stream gas pipeline project to France's Electricite de France (EdF), Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller said on Saturday.
- 19:11 19/06/2010
Russian gas giant Gazprom, Italian gas company Eni, and France's Electricite de France (EdF) signed a memorandum of understanding, bringing the French company into the South Stream gas pipeline.
- 21:06 18/06/2010
Italy's Eni and Russia's Gazprom agreed on Friday to permit Electricite de France (EdF) to enter the South Stream project, Eni said.
- 10:35 17/06/2010
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom is likely to replace Bulgaria with Romania in the South Stream pipeline network since Bulgaria halted the other two joint energy projects with Russia, a Russian business daily said on Thursday
- 18:22 16/06/2010
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom and Romania have started negotiations on Romania's joining the South Stream pipeline network and will in the next several months calculate how much the construction of the transit pipeline will cost, Gazprom said on Wednesday.
- 01:31 13/06/2010
The European Nabucco gas pipeline project is more important for Bulgaria than the Russia-backed South Stream project, Bulgaria's deputy foreign minster said.
- 21:53 09/06/2010
Russian energy giant Gazprom is ready to start construction of the South Stream pipeline in 2013, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
- 16:35 09/06/2010
The South Stream project is a new natural gas pipeline network that will connect Russia and the European Union via the waters of the Black Sea.
- 04:15 14/05/2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said he was not concerned about the South Stream pipeline project, designed to pump Russian gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine, Russian media has said.
- 15:18 11/05/2010
The possible merger of the Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz has no bearing on the South Stream project, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko said on Tuesday
- 00:46 29/04/2010
French energy producer EDF will sign an agreement to join the South Stream gas pipeline project with Russia's energy giant Gazprom and Italy's Eni during the International Economic Forum due in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg on June 17-19.
- 02:09 27/04/2010
Russia's energy giant Gazprom and Italy's Eni will each give 10% of their shares in the South Stream gas pipeline project to French EDF, the Russian premier said.
- 18:43 26/04/2010
There are no delays in implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline project, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Italy on Monday
- 17:34 26/04/2010
Italian companies have received $2 billion contracts on Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline
- 13:54 26/04/2010
The global natural gas market includes the pipeline gas market and the liquefied natural gas market.
- 19:28 24/04/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met Austrian President Heinz Fischer in Vienna on Saturday.
- 19:09 24/04/2010
A technical and economic assessment of the South Stream gas project will be ready in February 2011 and the pipeline will go into operation at the end of 2015, the Gazprom CEO said in Vienna on Saturday.
- 17:51 24/04/2010
Russia can guarantee gas to Europe 100 years in advance, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Vienna on Saturday after the signing of a deal to bring Austria into the South Stream project.
- 17:25 24/04/2010
Russia and Austria signed a deal in Vienna on Saturday on Austria joining the South Stream gas project.
- 17:01 24/04/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds wide-ranging talks in Vienna with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on Saturday.
- 12:37 08/04/2010
Russia expects to sign the last document required to launch the South Stream gas pipeline construction by the end of April, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Thursday
- 12:57 15/03/2010
Russia is not considering a proposal to combine part of its South Stream gas project with the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Monday.
- 17:06 04/03/2010
The European Commission does not view Russia-backed South Stream and Western Nabucco gas pipeline projects as rivals, European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Gettinger said on Thursday.
- 17:00 02/03/2010
Russia and Croatia signed on Tuesday an intergovernmental agreement on building and operating the Croatian segment of the South Stream gas pipeline intended to supply natural gas to Europe.
- 23:52 17/02/2010
Gazprom has received documents for a feasibility study of the South Stream gas pipeline's Romanian section, the Russian energy giant said Wednesday.
- 15:35 16/02/2010
Gazprom and Bulgaria are set to sign an agreement on a joint venture that will clear the way for the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline across the southeast European state, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.
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