Research

Will the Russian industry keep pace with the current market changes? Market share and profits are not the only things that are at stake, so is the potential for the development of the Russian economy.

All the ammonia projects currently announced for implementation in Russia are focused on the production of urea, access to feedstock and vertical integration up to marketing to the end consumer may be the key to their success.

The sector of electrochemical storage systems has been developing rapidly and claims to be the key driver of investment activities in the energy sector. Climate agenda and gradual transition to carbon free economy are shaping new global trends and storage...

The inventory of oil reserves commissioned by the Russian Government revealed a number of serious problems – from the shortage of relevant and reliable information on the development technology and economics for more than half of the fields due to th...

The global methanol industry is among the most rapidly developing ones. Russia is one of the largest exporters of methanol in the world, but today this is an industry with underrealized potential. The availability of low cost feedstock would allow to...

The new VYGON Consulting study analyzes the factors limiting LNG supply, evaluates the chances of the proposed projects for timely commissioning and estimates the potential for global demand growth.

Although DR mechanism in Russia was launched in 2017, no significant results have been obtained yet. How to integrate the promising mechanism into the Russian Wholesale Electricity and Capacity Market efficiently? How is the DR efficiency related to ...

Сompletion of the tax maneuver was planned to reduce inefficient oil refining subsidies. However, so far only the mechanism itself has been replaced, while the regulations have become substantially more complicated. In the future, new systemic soluti...

Since 2017 electricity tariffs for business in the Russian Far East have been subsidized at the expense of consumers across the rest of the country. The government is ready to decide on the extension of the mechanism for at least 10 years. How justif...

The global market of electric vehicles continues to develop rapidly. However, it appears that the optimism about its future has diminished over the last couple of years: the authorities have less desire to maintain generous support programs, technolo...

In May 2018 wholesale motor fuel prices exceeded retail – a landmark event for the Russian fuel market. Containment of retail motor fuel prices by the state led to losses at refineries and gas stations.

Preceding the OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, where the decision was made to review the oil production quotas, VYGON Consulting analysts looked into the possible changes in the world oil balance.

Digitization has increasingly been penetrating the oil and gas industry. Modern solutions in oil E&P will allow to increase competitiveness of hydrocarbon resources by reducing the production costs and increasing oil supply.

Gas demand in Russia has been stagnating since 2011, although all projections had promised its growth. Since 2006, demand for natural gas from industry and utilities sectors as well as from households has changed little despite significant transforma...

Global petrochemical industry is among the most dynamically developing sectors. Each country uses its competitive advantages – availability of cheap raw materials, leading technologies, and access to financial resources. At the same time, the most im...

Given the upcoming decline in cash flow from supplies under "premium" CSAs, power generators are aggressively lobbying the launch of a new program to attract investment in the sector – this time for the modernization of TPPs. Are the argume...

The second part of the Study, which has become a regular publication by VYGON Consulting, presents a performance analysis of the Russian downstream sector for 2016 and its development forecast for the next two years.

In the Part 1 “Production and Budget Revenue Scenarios” of the study, which has become a regular VYGON Consulting public product, presented the in-depth analysis of production and economic performance of Russian upstream oil sector in 2016, as well a...

The changing seasons have brought only positive news to Cheniere Energy, which was the first US company to launch LNG plant in the Gulf of Mexico. On February 24, exactly one year had passed away since the first LNG cargo left Sabine Pass. Four days ...

The support mechanism of the renewable energy sources (RES) on the Wholesale Electricity Market of the Russian Federation was adopted in 2013. Since then, about 2,000 MWh of green generation projects has been selected in the RES tenders, 100 ...