now with winter on the doorsteps russian gas is becoming as valuable as ever next we discuss gas prices and shipping security with gas price. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. hello again and welcome to spotlight. on i.t.v. i'm going to be my guest in the studio is syria gate. this one or the world's biggest producer and exporter. will be heating hall from the european continent and with cold season had talks about gas prices. there's something going to happen maybe something bad something we better be prepared for to share the news on this subject here is the official spokesman of a. new president you cautiously craned the gas wars with russia that occurred across the continent over the two countries reached an agreement on discounts for natural gas bookkeeping return russia got a long. pole naval base but ukraine is still not happy with the gas price and prime minister putin says russia is ready to discuss enough to discount the most of the several european countries agreed with discounts for important natural g

and trying to ensure of gas problem in the polish national gas company put it when you put into the new requirements of the european commission. guess transporting system is to be operated by an independent company and at the moment gas system which is a hundred percent polish state on company use a point two billion dependent operator we as europol gas shareholders are interested that the company receives enough revenue to be able to pay for credits. and we wanted to provide us with a reasonable terrorists for gas transit through polish territory we think that the agreements which we have signed but i want to. enable us to do so it wasn't to leave it with the intergovernmental agreement proving the entire package cream and so we hope that it will be signed soon and poland itself is interested more than anybody in it as well in the region as a community based gas deficit if it's your in the winter which is here and pleasant . it's a list system of agreements with poland is it the take up a system of only take or pay that with the leader yes of course i would. gazprom negotiating abo

security of gas shipping . culture is the same of charging into federal bureaucracy to model taliban bad guys we came with being in journalism for no pay corgan station with an obvious big commitment to what is the difference between. hello again and welcome to spotlight interview show on i.t.v. i'm probably not going to be my guest in the studio is syria gape. this one of the world's biggest that true gas producer an export or gas problem will be heating hall from the european continent and with cold season had talks about gas prices emerging again is something going to happen maybe something bad something we better be prepared for to share the news on this subject here is the official spokesman of the gas but i am sort of the. new president you cautiously craned the gas wars with russia that occurred across the continent over the two countries reached an agreement on discounts for natural gas bookkeeping returned russia got a long time lease on the sebastopol naval base but ukraine is still not happy with the

the spokesman for russian gas problem who is the gas giant here in this country and this one could be on the mystical prion of one of the journalists favorite topics to discuss with a guest promised at the u.n. is south stream is the majority's opinion that south stream is the bucco pipelines rival. gazprom has recently started work on the project and is currently negotiating with the french. and the german. you negotiate ing with any new partners in this project and he's gazprom ready to reduce its share for the sake of new partners. but. if i were in c. we have activated our word since we have always been actively working on the project but the fact that as you say people talk a lot about sauce three now. because among other reasons. there is nothing to say bulk nordstrom's ship in nature the pipeline construction is under way. you may remember that some time ago there used to be a lot of criticism and doubts about it budging it was known for some reason but i actually enjoy lists. with journalists completely forgot about it when everything is fine the meters they forget about it so

get the natural gas out. to test it you want to turn it an eighth of a turn and turn it back to the way it it was. notice the little thing? that's going straight with the flow of the pipe that means it's open. if it's across that means you turned off the gas. the eighth of a turn you didn't turn it off you just moved it. these are in better shape. if you can get to this valve, safely, the building's collapsed on it you can't get to it you have to use the one in the street. pg and e put all the meters outside the houses in a lot of the neighborhoods, these are pretty easy to get to. they are easy to find. if you can find the little round circle in the sidewalk. if you look directly at the house you will find this meter and this shut off on the ground floor. in is a closeup of the shut off. in is the wrench i recommend you you use it for other things. they are cheap and they will work. this is great because you can use it somewhere else if you have to. an adjustable open end wrench. a diagram are off/on. shut o

is easy product it's not so simple and conditions of diluting gas. should be defined in many pottery with the dozens of but i'm interested in a way to quantify the fix and now it surely is only open each shoe is. certain parameters of the price for what would have a price for the employees which was also not these two when you go share it but no it should be only a couple of parameters should be defined it is and this is jim called work and will start construction of the pipeline to be connected was there a chinese spy plane system in order to expand your present thin air on the asian market in the east asian market gazprom is planning to boost the saleen three four and five projects and we know that while that shell is rated participate in the south wind project can you name other companies are there other foreign partners that are ready to to invest into these project. absolutely right in the reserves is a very attractive reserves and will read you it can vary actually in the key inskeep local sahal in the city project the first results are very pr

plant management committee and director general of gas from export alexander admits that . russian prime minister vladimir putin has been criticizing europe's idea of implementing the so-called third energy package the europeans want to diversify the energy market aimed at creating equal competitive conditions for all oil and gas suppliers but putin says this will deter investors from pumping money into the new gas projects but some critics are saying guess prom state of affairs is far from ideal the monopolies biggest foreign shareholder the german consarn on he's planning to sell his gasp. from shares worth point five billion dollars on the other hand more european countries are planning to join the russian gas exporters south stream project. home is to be very of welcome to the shelves thank you very much thank you very much for being with us welcome well on the eve of his visit to germany prime minister putin shared his views with. germany and their article which is called russia and europe from learning the crisis lessons to a new agenda in partnership it reads i quote

pramanik shipment committee and director general of gas problem x. parts and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight we have someone in mind who you think i could interview next time to drop me a line at al gore in up at ati t.v. dot are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more faith and comment on what's going on and outside russia until then stay and party and take care. of. wealthy british style it's. not like. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. iran presses the on the swiss for its first nuclear energy plan. iran's nuclear she says the new russian built reactor has been loaded up with fuel for more joining me that i know that about later in the program. but the people should no longer be in switzerland because they just don't deserve to be in switzerland in the dark and wants to get over it as far as switzerland set the world referendum to decide whether immigrants who commit serious crimes should be killed sounds of the cultur

especially on the gas side. and what are we doing about the main lines and how they are inspecting those? have we looked at all the inspecting procedures? >> for the electric and gas side, the chief and i will be documenting everything so that anyone can slip into our position to know what had gone on. also, collecting other information that would be pertinent to that. with respect to the gas transmissions, those were the initial question we had after san bruno. i know the chief and i would agree -- we know that there is less pressure because we are at the end of the line, but there is still pressure in those gas lines, so we are paying attention to that. we are working closely with congressman spears to understand the standard and where are our automatic shutoff valves in case we have to make those decisions with pg&e about some incident? >> my understanding is we do not have automatic shutoff valves. >> we do not, but that does not mean we will not. it is our due diligence to recommend to you and the city what

pramanik shipment committee and director general of gas problem x. parts and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight we have someone in mind you think i could interview next time you drop a line at al gore not at ati t.v. dot are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more friends and comments on what's going on and and outside russia until then stay and r.t. and take care. of. for six months russian capital was in a state of siege. days and nights people lived in fear of occupation and were preparing for the desperate defense intense battles to be told of. the sony dami switched to the offensive line was the first su near defeat of the where moms would. battle for most go on or keep. the. prime minister vladimir putin pushing for closer ties between russia and the e.u. with an ultimate goal of a free trade zone during his visit to berlin also tried to court the german vote for russia's bid for the twenty eighteen football world cup the prime minister also expressed confidence in the euro and

and then you have a gas leak. there is an obligation on the part of the contractor to make sure that they properly marked and work with utility companies before they do their work. we thought this would be a good idea in terms of public works hosting this meeting to again emphasize the importance for contractors and their obligation that they have to properly address these issues before they start opening the ground. in the follow-up meeting on december 8 with pg&e was to discuss in present detail the issues related to shutdown procedures and whether or not pg&e is interested or inclined in having automatic or remote control shut off in the length of time that it took to shut down the line. that concludes the update that we have to date. again, i am keenly interested in making sure that our citizens are kept safe. i applaud you for your interest and diligence in following up to see that pg&e is held accountable and that we are given the information needed to do our job as safely and efficiently. supervisor chiu: a

john and sandy hopkins saved so much money on their gas bill that the gas company thought their meterwe are on a budget with the gas company, so i have been watching our actual usage to see if we were saving money that way. in february, we had a $181 credit, and i was very happy, because we've never had that in this house-- we have a... it's a very big house, and usually we don't come even or even have a credit until may-june. in march... march 13th, we received a letter stating, "we are trying to reach you regarding the consumption on your gas meter. it is inconsistent with normal usage at your address. please phone our office as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements to enter your home, in the event we need to change your meter." so we went from having a $181 credit to receiving this letter from the gas company... >> which i thought was pretty funny, 'cause, um... i guess they didn't want us to conserve. they tell us to, but they don't really want us to. ...all right, here's my brand shiny new gas meter from the columbia gas that they insisted i needed because i was using

to asia just liquefied natural gas in modest volumes but they're all plastic deliver as much gas as its. parts. asia in poor it's just one twentieth of the gas that russia supplies to europe japan india and south korea receive eight billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from russia by tanker but there are reasons huge room for growth visiting small head of gas pramod like say miller says these market alone expanding by fifteen percent within the decade. our korean partners are interested in increasing the gas supply into the korean market and today we agreed with the coal gas company on the fact that we move to the next stage of negotiations gazprom is also in talks with china as ever the sticking point is prize gas consumption in china is expected to balloon to two hundred billion cubic meters a year offering in new export markets for russia but analysts say russia should keep its western gas fields for europe and supply eastern consumers from annual tap first of all we must think about the result for the action east part of russia it's very important first because we know that

meanwhile despite the fact that most of the russian gas x. now flows into europe at the main focus and the main drive for the future growth lies in a completely different direction and it's the asian pacific region. demand for gas in the asia pacific region will definitely grow while analysts predict. not even to mention energy demand in such developing countries like china or india. two plans to supply at least ten billion cubic meters of gas to south korea starting from twenty seventeen by that time we expect the korean market to have grown by a further fifteen percent but the main focus is a china this november gazprom plans to continue negotiations over gas supplies into the country and alexander them invaded also mentioned today that gazprom is a relaunching work over sakhalin three four and five projects and this a full use of the overall company strategy to diversify its presence in the asian up pacific region meanwhile there are two major gas transportation projects that the i touch in today and these were north and a south stream whi

in terms of maintenance to the gas transmission system, the gas transmission is already heavily regulated both at the california level and by general order 112e and at the federal level. that dictates how often you do patrols, how often you check for activity. i think we can, with clarity, share with the city and fire chief and others interested, exactly what is taking place in the city of san francisco, in terms of our amendments practices. supervisor mirkarimi: perhaps i can talk to the electrical side. i am aware of general order 112 heat as it prepared -- pertains to the cast aside. would you say from the electrical side at that level of coordination and regulation is in place for the electrical infrastructure? would you say we need a general order as stringent as 112? >> i do not know all the basis of 112, but what is on the electrical side, we believe we have good programs in place from a man's perspective, diagnostics perspective on the electric side. supervisor mirkarimi: i wanted to identify some more consumer interest issues that we have pulled up from cpuc about what city repre

and staying with the gas moscow and beijing are unlikely to agree on the price of russian gas supplies to china before the middle of next year the news came after russian and chinese prime ministers held talks on tuesday in st petersburg where energy relations top the agenda medina cochon of reports. the latest round of energy dialogue between russia and china hasn't brought what many analysts were anticipating a pricing policy both sides find suitable on tuesday prime minister putin sad that negotiations between gazprom and china national betrayal and company are going according to plans. as we were at the energy between our countries developing quite successfully we have finished construction of the pipelines could you know that scene such a scene from the first of january two thousand and eleven with supplies of russian oil will arrive in china the negotiations between goss bromine c.m. p.c. are going on successfully we also thinking to develop nuclear energy corp but the main focus is future gas trade gazprom and c. and prissy signed a framework agreement last here for shipment of

germany's always sell its stake in russia's gas giant gas problem that's according to congress daily reports the potential buyer is the bank he on currently owns two and a half percent of gas probably world's largest utilities selling off assets in order to compensate its falling earnings earlier the company's chief said the stake in gasp almost lost a teacher for the company to expand in china and brazil finance minister says v. e. b. supervisory board hasn't discussed it in the yet. i was staying with us moscow and beijing are likely to agree on the price of russian gas supplies to china before the middle of next year the news came after russian and chinese prime ministers held talks on tuesday in st petersburg energy relations top the agenda but in a culture pots. the latest round of energy dialogue between russia and china hasn't brought what many analysts were anticipating and pricing policy both sides find suitable on tuesday prime minister putin sound that negotiations between gazprom in china national betray him company are going according to plan. as you are to me energy bet

of an easy on may so it's taken russia's gas giant gas problem daily reports the potential by is the be back on currently owns three and a half percent and gas wells largest utilities selling off assets in order to compensate its falling earnings earlier the company's chief said the stake in gazprom was non-strategic with a company aiming to expand in china and brazil. and staying with gas last go and beijing are unlikely to agree on the price of russian gas supplies to china before the middle of next year the news came out to russian and chinese prime ministers help talks on tuesday in st petersburg where energy relations top the agenda that actually has more. the latest round of energy dialogue between russia and china hasn't brought what many analysts were anticipating a pricing policy both sides find suitable on tuesday prime minister putin sad that negotiations between gazprom and china national betrayal and company are going according to plan. as we were at the energy between our countries developing quite successfully we have finished construction of the pipelines coated you k