98 Contacts on behalf of Gazprom Export

Date Lobbyist Firm Country Method Level Contact Office Issues
9-May None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Corresponded with The New York Times regarding Gazprom piece - 20 May, 2009
9-Apr None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Reached out to The Washington Times regarding the placement of Alexander Medvedev's op-ed "Is Europe serious about energy security?" - 3, 6 April 2009
9-Mar None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None "Engaging Ukraine in 2009" hosted by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. - 17 March, 2009
9-Feb None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None CNN's Eye on Russia - 25 March, 2009
9-Jan None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Conducted regular media outreach and monitoring regarding the Ukrainian gas issue, Held regular calls with key print, wire and broadcast journalists to provide updates on the situtation.
8-Dec None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Institutional Investor regarding possible Gazprom executive interview - 12, 18 December, 2008 (Interview conducted with Alexander Medvedev on 22 December)
2009-06-08 Jonathan Schwantes, Vin Weber Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Meeting
2009-06-01 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Prepared materials for meeting with State Department staff
9-May Ed Kutler Clark & Weinstock Russia Email None *
2009-04-14 Sandra Stuart Clark & Weinstock Russia Email None Regarding energy issues
2009-04-09 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Email None Regarding gazprom
2009-04-20 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Email None Discussion with Senate staff about Gazprom
2009-04-13 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Other None Discussion with Senate staff about Gazprom
2009-04-06 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Other None Discussion with Senate staff about Gazprom
2009-09-11 Jonathan Schwantes, Ed Kutler Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Meeting
2009-09-14 Jonathan Schwantes, Ed Kutler Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Meeting
2009-09-14 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Prepared materials for meeting with Energy Department staff
2009-09-03 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Meeting
2009-08-13 Ed Kutler Clark & Weinstock Russia Meeting None Meeting
2009-07-29 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Other None Discussion with State Department staff about Gazprom
2009-06-29 Jonathan Schwantes Clark & Weinstock Russia Other None Discussion with State Department staff about Gazprom
2010-04-06 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers speech to the SAIS-EIA Energy Conference
2010-04-22 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None for Deliveries to U.S. Gulf Coast Terminal
2010-04-01 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Distributed Blue Fuel
2010-04-09 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Media Outreach Related to Client Work: Assisted in drafting op-ed on Gazprom's activity in the U.S.
2010-03-23 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Natural Gas Roundtable sponsored by American Gas Association, National Gas Supply Association, & Center for Liquefied Natural Gas
2010-03-29 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Appoints Arthurt Tait as Singapore Managing Director
2010-03-29 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None announces new Singapore office and operations
2010-03-12 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None On the Signing of the Supplement to the Memorandum of Understanding between Gazprom and ONGC
2010-02-17 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Results of the Visit of the OJSC Gazprom's Delegation to Romania
2010-02-22 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Russia's Energy Investments in Central and Eastern Europe: Mixing Politics and Business (Woodrow Wilson Center)
2010-02-01 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Moscow's Energy Strategy toward Northeast Asia: Can Russia Realize its Potential? (Woodrow Wilson Center)
2010-01-29 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Gazprom and MFB create South Stream Hungary ZRT joint venture company
2010-01-28 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Factsheet Russia-Poland gas relations
2010-01-28 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Gas supply agreement between Russia and Poland
2010-01-21 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Speech by Alexander Medvedev at the Handelsblatt Conference in Berlin
2010-01-21 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None On the Results of EuRoPol Gaz Supervisory Board Meeting
2010-01-27 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None American Gas Association's annual presentation to the New York Society of Security Analyst
2010-01-07 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Are Caspian and Middle-East Pipelines the Future of the European Gas Market? (Woodrow Wilson Center)
2010-01-20 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Energy & Commerce Subcommittee Hearing on ExxonMobil-XTO Merger
2010-01-26 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Prepared note on Exxon's merger with XTO and related North American shale developments
2010-01-26 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None regarding Alexander Medvedev's op-ed on Central Asia
2010-01-13 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Proved statement on Gazprom's stance on shale gas to Steve LeVine at BusinessWeek
2010-05-21 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Journalist) Sent background document to client on Fast Company magazine
2010-11-19 None Ketchum Inc Russia Meeting None (Director, Energy Security Initiative and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy) at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC
2010-11-02 None Ketchum Inc Russia Meeting None (Ambassador) *
2010-10-18 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Assembled, edited and distributed Gazprom Export's Blue Fuel newsletter
2010-10-27 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Bloomberg Reporters) *
2010-10-27 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Bloomberg Reporters) *
2010-08-05 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (founder and managing director of East European Gas Analysis) *
2010-08-13 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Foreign Policy) regarding shale editorial
2010-08-26 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Platts' and Bloomberg's) in connection with Alexander Medvedev's interview with Financial Times Deuchland
2010-08-26 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Platts' and Bloomberg's) in connection with Alexander Medvedev's interview with Financial Times Deuchland
2010-08-24 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Correspondence with New York Times' in connection to Gazprom Marketing & Trading's work with InfiniteEarth leading to the approval of the world's first REDD methodology
2010-08-11 None Ketchum Inc Russia Meeting None (President of Coburn International Energy) *
2010-08-09 None Ketchum Inc Russia Meeting None (Manager, Upstream & Gas, PFC Energy) *
2010-08-06 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Fortune magazine request for participation in the "World's Most Admired Companies" list
2010-07-14 None Ketchum Inc Russia Meeting None (Ambassador) to discuss European energy security
2010-07-13 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Attended "Ukraine: Where is it Going and How the U.S. Should Respond" panel discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
2010-06-22 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Set up conference call with Gazprom Export executives to discuss updates on the situation in Belarus. Reporters from the following outlets and institutions were invited: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Lost Angeles Times, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Platts, Energy Intelligence Group, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters, Associated Press, NPR, McClatchy, Houston Chronicle, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Energy Daily, Energy Intelligence, Energy Risk, Natural Gas Week, Environment & Energy Daily, Platts Gas Daily, Pipeline & Gas Journal, Energy In
2010-06-25 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None (Fast Company) Worked with reporter to get responses to questions on Russian energy issues
2010-06-25 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Answering request for comment regarding Gazprom Neft's Iran activities from Benoit Faucon at Dow Jones
2010-06-25 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Worked with reporter at the Economist Intelligence Unit to get responses to questions on Russian energy issues
2010-06-16 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Distributed Blue Fuel Newsletter
2010-06-11 None Ketchum Inc Russia Other None Correspondence with Nissa Darbonne Oil & Gas Investor regarding an article on shale gas
2010-08-26 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Energy Analyst, Department of State) Global Shale Initiative
2010-08-06 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Director of Russian Affairs, Department of Energy) Eurasian Energy and U.S. Russian bilateral commission
2010-08-06 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy) Eurasian Energy and U.S. Russian bilateral commission
2010-07-23 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Email None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Bulgarian gas contracts
2010-07-19 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Email None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Bulgarian gas contracts
2010-07-13 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Elias Hinckley Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Tom Quinn Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Tom Quinn Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Tom Quinn Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Birch Bayh Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Birch Bayh Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Birch Bayh Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-06-03 Richard Hegg Venable LLP Russia Other None (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Gulf oil spill
2010-06-02 Richard Hegg Venable LLP Russia Other None (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Gulf oil spill
2010-07-13 Robert L. Smith Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Robert L. Smith Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 Robert L. Smith Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-10-28 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Email None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Background on upcoming U.S.-Russia bilateral energy work group
2010-10-28 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Email None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Background on upcoming U.S.-Russia bilateral energy work group
2010-10-14 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Background regarding Ambassador Morningstar's Black Sea forum speech
2010-10-14 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Background regarding Ambassador Morningstar's Black Sea forum speech
2010-10-11 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Background regarding Ambassador Morningstar's Black Sea forum speech
2010-08-26 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Energy Analyst, Department of State) Background on U.S. Global Shale gas Initiative
2010-07-29 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Director of Russian Affairs, Department of Energy) U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-29 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy) U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-07-13 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Meeting None (Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General Eurasian energy issues and U.S. Government perspective on U.S.-Russian bilateral energy working group meetings
2010-06-30 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) Schedule a meeting with Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy
2010-06-23 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General background on U.S. Government perspective on Eurasian energy issues and scheduling meeting with Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy
2010-06-21 William Nordwind Venable LLP Russia Phone None (Chief of Staff to Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Department of State) General background on U.S. Government perspective regarding Eurasian energy issues
*An asterisk in the "issues" field means no issues were listed for this specific meeting, so the client registration information is displayed instead.

7 Lobbyist Payments from Gazprom Export

Date Firm Amount Purpose
None Ketchum Inc $895,324.00 to cover fees and expenses for providing services for the benefit of Gazprom during the reporting period.
None Ketchum Inc $1,676,736.00 fees and expenses
None Ketchum Inc $1,676,736.00 fees and expenses
2009-02-02 Gavin Anderson & Company $150,000.00 Services rendered
2009-03-31 Gavin Anderson & Company $168,000.00 Services rendered
2009-05-20 Gavin Anderson & Company $47,409.00 Services Rendered/Final Invoice
2010-10-18 Venable LLP $28,000.00 Payment for Consulting
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