Nord Stream 2.

In the 20th century Józef Piłsudski proposed a preventive war against Germany in order to avoid a World War. It is time for a less drastic solution to defend Moldova against Russia, which is using gas as a weapon, which may be a foretaste of further hostilities against Europe. It’s not about the hussars charging, […]

What goes on in Poland on the 22nd of November.

German Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) temporarily suspended the certification of the Nord Stream 2 project. Its operator, Nord Stream 2 AG, will have to create a special purpose company responsible for the management of the gas pipeline in accordance with the EU law of the gas directive.

It is still unclear when gas will start flowing via the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The crisis on the Polish border should be another argument against giving Russia new leverage in the form of a gas pipeline, but the energy crisis may lead to a deal. In the meantime, however, we should tighten our […]

The 2-week COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference will start on October 31 in Glasgow. Though methane emission reduction is not in the limelight for this session, it will be a topic for hallway conversations. In particular, taking into account that the EU strategy to reduce methane emissions was adopted one year ago in the […]

Nord Stream 2 pipeline, though completed is nowhere near delivering gas to the EU and involved in several legal battles in EU and German Courts that can affect the bankability of the project. The latter is acknowledged by the project promotors themselves – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl editor in chief.

Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz has filed a request with German regulator BundesNetzAgentur (BNetzA) for leave to participate in the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Naftogaz Executive Board Chairman Yuriy Vitrenko announced on 17 October in Kyiv.

The Russian ambassador to Poland argues that Gazprom did not use gas as a weapon. That’s not true. The company is capitalizing on the energy crisis, and wants to use it to force an early launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The answer to this is a common European policy, for example with […]

It’s time for a second antitrust investigation against Russia’s Gazprom. Poland is opening another front in the battle against the dominance of this supplier and its Nord Stream 2 project. This is because the first investigation did not result in Russians changing their behavior, as they now use the gas price crisis to manipulate the […]

Gazprom and Rosneft are the two largest energy companies in Russia. Gazprom focuses on gas extraction, and Rosneft on oil extraction. However, the latter has been formulating increasingly bolder plans to enter the segment previously captured by the company from St. Petersburg, which raises concerns among the Gazprom management. Will Nord Stream 2 be the […]