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Building on recent positive developments concerning the future development of the UK’s shale gas resources, including the April 2013 Energy and Climate Change Committee report on the impact of shale gas on energy markets, the establishment of the Office for Unconventional Gas and Oil within...
The success of the Eastern Partnership depends on the success of Ukraine, as Ukraine is a key component of the Eastern Partnership, admitted guests of the 6th Europe-Ukraine Forum, which ended yesterday in Budapest. Almost all discussions during the three-day conference raised the issue of signing the...
A trade association of German brewers has warned of risks hydraulic fracturing (fracking) could create for the purity of water used in German beer. The Brauer-Bund has written to Chancellor Angela Merkel explaining its fears if Germany decides to allow fracking, the key technology in extraction of shale gas.
Azerbaijan's official energy company SOCAR intends to borrow more than $20 billion (€15.5bn) over a five-year period to finance energy projects, the country's vice-president has said. The all-out effort aims to increase gas exports to Europe over seen by SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan)...
Embracing shale gas mining in the United Kingdom could create thousands of jobs equivalent to "a new North Sea", a business executive group says in a new report. The comments come in Getting Shale Gas Working, from the prestigious Institute of Directors. Corin Taylor, author of the report, says: “Shale...
Competent, skilled professionals are key to supporting the development of the British shale gas industry. This was the message delivered by ten panelists who spoke Wednesday at the conference "Shale Gas - Lancashire's next industrial revolution?" organized by the employer group Institute...
The third and fourth sections of Russia’s “South Stream” will be completed by 2018. However, supranational structures in Brussels and their representatives in Berlin still cannot set forth a predictable and unified position on this project of undisputed geopolitical importance. ...
Poland will not collect taxes on the production of shale gas until 2020, the finance minister has said. The move is seen as designed to provide counter-encouragement to explorers, after a series of disappointments have led two energy majors to depart the scene in recent months. "The law on the taxation...
The countries already signed up in support of the Nabucco West project have declared that the pipeline could also supply the Western Balkans and the Visegrad group of countries. Visegrad comprises Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The Nabucco consortium held a meeting in Bucharest Monday...
Turkmenistan sees diversification of its natural gas supplies to world markets as a major energy policy priority, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told the fourth International Gas Congress, taking place this week in Ashgabat. "Our country is gradually increasing its exports of natural gas," according...
