Russia

As reported in last month’s issue of gasworld magazine, the slide of the brent crude oil price (per barrel) continues to dominate the news headlines of the new year.

Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said on Sunday that Egypt will complete an agreement with Russia’s Gazprom for the company to supply it with liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments later this month.

After the shortages of recent years and dynamics that reached a crescendo in 2013, a situation of both stability and over-supply returned to the helium business in 2014.

Air Products has entered into an agreement with Sibur-Khimprom, a subsidiary of Sibur Holding, to build a new air separation unit in Perm (Russia) and to supply the facility with locally produced gases.

A naming ceremony was held for Sovcomflot’s new LNG carrier today (Tuesday 16th December) when it was officially named SCF Melampus.

The global LNG market, in which Gazprom intends to increase its liquefaction capacity by 250% to 25 million tonnes per year by 2018, will pose unfamiliar challenges to the company, according to analyst firm GlobalData.

Russia has perhaps been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this year; political uncertainty in 2014 has certainly already been cited by two of gasworld’s interviewees as a significant challenge to doing business...

Russia’s OJSC “Uralcryomash” has announced it has a new production program for three years, from 2015 to 2017, to construct a new production facility on the site of the former plant for the production of...

Uralcryomash has secured a supply deal, for the transportation and storage of liquid oxygen, nitrogen, argon, with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation.

Currently, there are various types of bulk tanks for liquid hydrogen, which differ from each other in shape, size, working pressure, applied thermal insulation and purpose. Selection of parameters of stationary tanks is determined by...