Drumbeat: October 28, 2009

Russian LNG Aims Face Big Challenges in Arctic Regions Russia, the world's biggest gas producer, has invited international energy majors to help it realize its ambitions to conquer one-fifth of the global market for liquified natural gas by 2020, but experts say it could be more than a decade before new production comes onstream. Russia says it wants to beef up shipments of liquified natural gas, or LNG, to Asian and U.S. markets at the expense of pipeline deliveries to Europe, which are th