Russian Oil and Gas Industry: News #3

PapaDragon wrote:
Back in the 80s Soviets women were selling their pussies for box of bubblegum

Don't even try to sell that bullshit about Soviet utopia, vermin was living on leftovers

Not so much in the 1980's although it started to pick up post 1987. The years of the great kitty sale was 1992-1998. In 1997 for example, the top bar in Moscow was called Niteflite (run by the Swedes) that was a pro-am tour de force of students/secretaries/strippers selling themselves to middle aged, fat, balding Europeans for the going rate of $100. The Hungry Duck (run by Canadian Doug Steele) featured "Ladies Night" where several hundred girls from the small towns in Moscow Oblast would by given free alcohol for several hours until hordes of men were allowed in (characterized by the Exile newspaper published by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi as a weekly rape festival). All this ended rather abruptly in 1998-1999 with the collapse of the fake Yeltsin economy and the coming to power of Mr. Putin.

I think he should properly be called Dr. Putin.   Even if his doctorate was not in medicine, he ended up being the best doctor Russia ever
had as a country.

MOSCOW, May 31, 2021, RUSSTRAT Institute. The news that Russia and Pakistan have signed an agreement on the construction of the Pakistani Stream gas pipeline sparked active discussion in the expert community. Especially in light of the Pakistani government's refusal to lease its military bases in Baluchistan to the United States to accommodate part of the American military contingent being withdrawn from Afghanistan.

From this, many experts have come to the conclusion that Russia has almost successfully purchased Pakistan, which is called “for cheap gas”. Of course, there is certainly a certain rapprochement between the countries, but the pipeline issue is actually much more complicated.

Pakistan is one of the ten countries with the highest rates of economic growth, having maintained the level of 4.3% per year for more than a decade. In terms of PPP, the country has increased its economic power from $ 670 billion in 2009 to $ 1.065 trillion in 2019. This is impressive. IMF experts say that if Islamabad manages to maintain such rates further, then by 2050 the country's already nominal GDP has every chance of growing to $ 4.25 billion.

But for this Pakistan urgently needs a lot of energy, but it is with her that the situation is just bad. At the moment, the country's domestic energy consumption depends on imports for almost a quarter, although only 10 years ago the dependence did not exceed 20%. Today, a third of Pakistani imports are generated by energy. And this is in a country with a negative foreign trade balance.

So the question of laying pipelines has been of interest to the Pakistani authorities since the 1980s, when the Iran-Pakistan-India project appeared. But due to regional specifics and geopolitical tensions, India withdrew from it in 2000, and under American pressure, Pakistan froze preparations for infrastructure work, although the Iranians completed their part of the "pipe" and even offered preferential money for its further laying through the rest of the countries. ...

Great hopes were pinned on TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India). It was expected that it will reach full capacity in 2018, but in fact, the Afghan section has barely begun to be built by now, so that even the timeline for launching the pipe, at least in initial operation, shifted to the end of 2021, will most likely remain impracticable.

What is now called "Pakistani Stream" is in fact the reincarnation of the Iran-Pakistan-India offshore pipeline project, going from an Iranian field to India, with a call to Pakistani Gwadar. In September 2018, a Memorandum of Understanding on its creation was signed by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation and the Government of Pakistan. Investment in the project was estimated at $ 10 billion.

By the way, the project got its former name - "North-South" - because of the branch connecting the gas receiving terminal near the port of Gwadar with the LNG terminal in Karachi and further passing to the city of Lahore in the north of the country. In general, North-South is a purely internal Pakistani infrastructure project.

But then it also did not grow together. Partly because of the divergence of views on tariffs between Gazprom and the local government, partly because of the problems with both Iran and India related to US sanctions.

Judging by the new agreement and the new brand name, the problems have been resolved. Instead of Rostec, the project now involves the FSUE Center for Operational Services, the Ministry of Energy, the Eurasian Pipeline Consortium (ETK), and the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK). The Russian share in the Special Purpose Company (SPV) created in Pakistan for the implementation of the project and the subsequent operation of the pipeline is 26%, the control package will remain in the hands of Pakistan - 74%.

Three conclusions follow from this. First, despite the catchy name, there will be no Russian gas in the Pakistani Stream. From the word at all. Secondly, this is not particularly important, since a quarter of the operating income of the Pakistan Stream will still go to Russia.

And here is the most important thing, thirdly. The launch of the project, which is actively opposed by the United States, and even in the former zone of American geopolitical domination, especially connected with Iran, and overcoming the regional Indo-Pakistani confrontation, is a very big diplomatic victory for Russia, which seriously adds international weight to Moscow, which in modern times almost priceless.

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Fortuna vessel is less than 6 km away from the completion of Line B (5.730m)..

https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1399161435821854723

PhSt wrote:I surely hope that he is talking about the existing contract. It would be a stupid move to keep Ukraine as a transit country after the current contract expires. Unless Russia is given some major concessions, then there is no point in showing goodwill to these ungrateful and backstabbing Thugs.

Russia has said more than once they won't cut gas supply to Ukraine as long as they pay for their gas.
Ukraine will most likely lose the gas transit revenues though. Gazprom might still make a deal for transit if the price is reasonable and they need extra capacity but this is doubtful.

It's frelling anti-Russian propaganda. Banderastan flaunts the fact that it does not buy gas from Russia and instead buys the gas from Slovakia,
Poland, etc. So what drivel to yammer about "cutting off Ukraine". It is the author of this uncited article who is insistent on spreading anti-Russian
BS.

Less than 5 km left to complete one string of Nord Stream 2

Barge Fortuna is completing the construction of one line of Nord Stream 2. After that, obviously, the vessel will help the Akademik Chersky pipelayer to complete the construction of the second one. The construction of the entire gas pipeline should be completed by the end of September.

Over the past 24 hours, the Fortuna barge has laid 1,000 meters of Nord Stream 2 in the German economic zone, and it has less than five kilometers to go to complete line B. This is evidenced by the data of the navigation portals Marinetraffic and Vesselfinder. At the current pace, Fortuna could weld the “golden seam” of thread B this week.

The barge still has a large fleet of support vessels. Four vessels provide a 1.25 mile security zone. And five more are either on duty at the "Fortuna", including anchoring, or deliver pipes and materials for construction to the barge.

In total, since February, Fortuna has built more than 58 kilometers of line B in Danish and German waters. Due to storms, the ship stood idle for more than a month and a half. However, the barge is moving ahead of the updated schedule. The project operator Nord Stream 2 AG has informed the Danish Energy Authority that work on line B is scheduled to be completed by the end of June.

Now the barge is working in the German shallow water - the sea depth does not exceed 25 meters. Until June 5, the Swedish Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (SMHI) predicts quite favorable weather, which allows Fortuna to lay 1 kilometer or more of the pipeline every day.

But there has been no breakthrough on the second string of Nord Stream 2 yet. Despite the retrofitting and modernization, the pipelayer "Akademik Chersky" for unknown reasons is building at a leisurely pace. In more than a month, the ship has covered 10 kilometers, and it has to lay another 75 kilometers in Danish and German waters.

The project operator and Gazprom do not comment on the progress of the work. However, it is obvious that after the completion of the laying of line B, Fortuna will switch to the construction of another one. Despite the presence of only anchor positioning, the speed of the vessel is twice or more faster than the speed of "Akademik Chersky". Both pipelayers will be able to complete the gas pipeline from different sides.

German and Danish regulators reported that the construction of Nord Stream 2 is planned to be fully completed by the end of September.

As EADaily reported, at the end of May, Gazprom once again reminded that Europe is behind the schedule for pumping gas into storage. However, the company itself is not going to significantly increase exports in the near future, but plans to satisfy additional demand with the help of Nord Stream 2, which may be launched in the fall. Meanwhile, Gazprom's closest competitors will not be able to increase gas exports, and the company can count on the fact that, given the peak demand in the next heating season, it may need all the capacities of the pipeline that has not yet been built. After the scandalous changes to the gas directive, Nord Stream 2 can still operate at only half of its capacity.

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JohninMK wrote:

franco wrote:Less than 5 km left to complete one string of Nord Stream 2

Love a good map

I love the tears of Ukronazis, Baltic nationalists, Polish supremacists and the rest of them that will be raining down once they have no choice but accept the reality of Nord Stream 2's completion.

calripson wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Back in the 80s Soviets women were selling their pussies for box of bubblegum

Don't even try to sell that bullshit about Soviet utopia, vermin was living on leftovers

Not so much in the 1980's although it started to pick up post 1987. The years of the great kitty sale was 1992-1998. In 1997 for example, the top bar in Moscow was called Niteflite (run by the Swedes) that was a pro-am tour de force of students/secretaries/strippers selling themselves to middle aged, fat, balding Europeans for the going rate of $100. The Hungry Duck (run by Canadian Doug Steele) featured "Ladies Night" where several hundred girls from the small towns in Moscow Oblast would by given free alcohol for several hours until hordes of men were allowed in (characterized by the Exile newspaper published by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi as a weekly rape festival). All this ended rather abruptly in 1998-1999 with the collapse of the fake Yeltsin economy and the coming to power of Mr. Putin.

I forgot to add the ever present "tochkas" of the 1990s. Groups of young girls from small towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus trafficked like cattle in open air brothels along the side of the MKAD road and in metros right next to Red Square. The traffickers were Caucasian criminal gangs - usually Chechnyan, Armenian, or Georgian (and oddly Kurdish). The girls would be brought out in groups according to price and quality starting with the cheapest and ending with the priciest and most attractive. The real lookers would get shipped off to Tel Aviv or Dubai. I distinctly remember the Militsia bus parked next to the tochka on Thursday nights as Thursday was "freebie" day for the cops. That was the environment Putin inherited. One of total rot and corruption. The fact that Navalny types romanticize the 1990's in Russia is an outrage. Russians under age 30 have no conception of the reality of those times.

The Czech Republic was a hub for the white slavery trade. Its current posturing on various issues is grotesque.

calripson wrote:

calripson wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Back in the 80s Soviets women were selling their pussies for box of bubblegum

Don't even try to sell that bullshit about Soviet utopia, vermin was living on leftovers

Not so much in the 1980's although it started to pick up post 1987. The years of the great kitty sale was 1992-1998. In 1997 for example, the top bar in Moscow was called Niteflite (run by the Swedes) that was a pro-am tour de force of students/secretaries/strippers selling themselves to middle aged, fat, balding Europeans for the going rate of $100. The Hungry Duck (run by Canadian Doug Steele) featured "Ladies Night" where several hundred girls from the small towns in Moscow Oblast would by given free alcohol for several hours until hordes of men were allowed in (characterized by the Exile newspaper published by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi as a weekly rape festival). All this ended rather abruptly in 1998-1999 with the collapse of the fake Yeltsin economy and the coming to power of Mr. Putin.

I forgot to add the ever present "tochkas" of the 1990s. Groups of young girls from small towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus trafficked like cattle in open air brothels along the side of the MKAD road and in metros right next to Red Square. The traffickers were Caucasian criminal gangs - usually Chechnyan, Armenian, or Georgian (and oddly Kurdish). The girls would be brought out in groups according to price and quality starting with the cheapest and ending with the priciest and most attractive. The real lookers would get shipped off to Tel Aviv or Dubai. I distinctly remember the Militsia bus parked next to the tochka on Thursday nights as Thursday was "freebie" day for the cops. That was the environment Putin inherited. One of total rot and corruption. The fact that Navalny types romanticize the 1990's in Russia is an outrage. Russians under age 30 have no conception of the reality of those times.

The 'good old days'

Child prostitution on the streets
https://twitter.com/ceverarvedus/status/1398606357994086401

kvs wrote:The Czech Republic was a hub for the white slavery trade. Its current posturing on various issues is grotesque.

Still is

calripson wrote:

calripson wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Back in the 80s Soviets women were selling their pussies for box of bubblegum

Don't even try to sell that bullshit about Soviet utopia, vermin was living on leftovers

Not so much in the 1980's although it started to pick up post 1987. The years of the great kitty sale was 1992-1998. In 1997 for example, the top bar in Moscow was called Niteflite (run by the Swedes) that was a pro-am tour de force of students/secretaries/strippers selling themselves to middle aged, fat, balding Europeans for the going rate of $100. The Hungry Duck (run by Canadian Doug Steele) featured "Ladies Night" where several hundred girls from the small towns in Moscow Oblast would by given free alcohol for several hours until hordes of men were allowed in (characterized by the Exile newspaper published by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi as a weekly rape festival). All this ended rather abruptly in 1998-1999 with the collapse of the fake Yeltsin economy and the coming to power of Mr. Putin.

I forgot to add the ever present "tochkas" of the 1990s. Groups of young girls from small towns and villages in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus trafficked like cattle in open air brothels along the side of the MKAD road and in metros right next to Red Square. The traffickers were Caucasian criminal gangs - usually Chechnyan, Armenian, or Georgian (and oddly Kurdish). The girls would be brought out in groups according to price and quality starting with the cheapest and ending with the priciest and most attractive. The real lookers would get shipped off to Tel Aviv or Dubai. I distinctly remember the Militsia bus parked next to the tochka on Thursday nights as Thursday was "freebie" day for the cops. That was the environment Putin inherited. One of total rot and corruption. The fact that Navalny types romanticize the 1990's in Russia is an outrage. Russians under age 30 have no conception of the reality of those times.

Thank god the navalnites are a minority. Cause having this again in Russia would destroy it.

An explosive report published late last year found that lobbyists for Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz, as well as at least one representative of the country’s security council, actively launched a lobbying campaign in Washington aimed at securing US sanctions against its construction. Naftogaz’s Vadim Glamazdin is said to have claimed that new measures being mulled by American politicians would be “the final nail in the coffin” for the project. “When these sanctions are finally voted and become law, there will be no practical way to build this pipeline,” he is said to have added.

ROFL!  Nice going, you fucking Ukropistani retard   Every time these shaved apes in Bandera-land open their pie-holes they only suceed in embarassing themselves further!  Keep it up you blithering idiots..  

JohninMK wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:
Thank god the navalnites are a minority.  Cause having this again in Russia would destroy it.

Few in the US realise, that if they keep spending borrowed money at the rate they are, that this could well be in their future.

After the nonsense of Joe Bidens plan for $4T investments in infrastructure (lack of a plan that is) it will throw them further in debt faster than ever.

The LNG freedom molecules will be going east to the highest bidder and not to the sanctimonious, bloody hypocrite EU for the low price it
desires.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Gas-Prices/Is-This-The-First-Truly-Global-Gas-Price-Benchmark.html

Keep dreaming, losers.

As per VVP, the first line of NS2 was completed this morning. Second line completed 'shortly' but 'shortly' was not defined.

Fortune is at the finish line. Chronicles of IHP Nord Stream 2, June 1-4, 2021

Pipelaying along one of the 2 strings of the Nord Stream-2 gas trunkline ( MGP ) is actually completed. On June 4, 2021, the
pipe-lay barge (TUB) Fortuna approached the end of the final section of the 2nd line of the Nord Stream-2 IHP in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Germany and is preparing to dock with the previously constructed section.
Under construction 1st line of the pipeline and installation crane pipelay vessel (KMTUS) Academic Cherskii confidently moving forward gradually picking up the pace of work.

Tensions at an important moment of completion of work on the 2nd line of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline are added by the presence in the area south of the island. Bornholm missile destroyer United States Navy Roosevelt