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The Georgian energy ministry has sidestepped claims that it was ready to buy gas from Russia after a seven year hiatus. While analysts maintain having multiple suppliers is a sound policy, purchasing natural gas from Gazprom appears to carry too much political baggage to be worth the cost. Georgian...
The European Union intends to examine concerns about hydraulic fracturing to mine shale gas, Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger has said. The Commissioner made the comments in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, and on the eve of a major hydrocarbon energy conference in Brussels. Oettinger...
Natural Gas Europe is pleased to present Part II, of its interview with Dr. Khaled Toukan is Chairman of The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and past Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (2011), How are austerity measures affecting the economy and the people in Jordan? Jordan witnessed a...
The Nabucco consortium says shipping-company interest in registration and capacity booking in the Nabucco West pipeline has already exceeded expectations just a fortnight after the launch of the registration phase of the Open Season. Nabucco has attracted strong interest from a variety of shippers...
Profit at the Russian gas giant, Gazprom, fell 10% in 2012. A 17% drop in sales to countries formerly in the Soviet Union was one of the larger negatives on the balance sheet. The company said net sales of gas decreased by 6%, although domestic sales increased by 3%, in a statement of accounts on its website.
Looking back at the history of natural gas in Europe, things seemed pretty easy in the past, according to Klaus Schaefer, CEO E.ON Global Commodities, who opened a debate at Gas Week 2013 entitled Investing to Make a Clean Future Real. He began, "Natural gas has been championed, and rightly so, as a...
The European Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the European Union in Brussels on the 22nd of May will be heavily focused on natural gas developments, pointing out the importance of the energy commodity for the growth and development of the Continent. More specifically, three themes...
For more than ten years harsh negotiations among different oil majors and pipeline consortia have been taking place about the Southern Gas Corridor, all of them seeking to transit 10 bcm/year of natural gas that will be produced from the Shah Deniz giant gas field of Azerbaijan to the European Union.
In our article US LNG Exports: March Madness and the Road to the Final Four Projects, we predicted that Freeport LNG would make it to the final round of US LNG export projects approved by the US Department of Energy (DOE). According to a Freeport LNG news release issued on Friday, our LNG Export...
Bulgaria no longer concerned over South Stream's environmental impactBulgaria’s Ministry of Environment and Waters has approved the ecological risk assessment report for the South Stream project. The South Stream gas pipeline will connect Russia and the Balkans through the Black Sea, pumping...
