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Companies owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom should not be involved in any Baltic liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal representatives of Latvia and Estonia have said. Quoted by Reuters, they said this was because idea behind such a terminal is to cut the region's dependence on Russian supplies. "Being...
Warsaw and the Baltic states are examining how to join forces in order to counterbalance Russian gas domination. Prime Ministers of Poland and neighboring Lithuania met in Warsaw on Tuesday to confirm their common interest in linking Polish and Lithuanian gas transport systems. According to media reports...
The current regulatory framework and the lack of common understanding between neighboring countries make it very difficult to develop regional infrastructure project and build a common Baltic gas market, experts say. As the region seeks to reduce dependency from Russian gas, as well as to enhance competition...
The lack of cooperation and common energy future vision undermines regional plans to build a large-scale liquefied natural gas terminal in the Baltics, energy executives and officials say. On their pursuit of future energy independence and security, officials of the three Baltic States – Estonia...
Historically, energy security has played a central role in shaping the national security strategy and interests of the Baltic nations. The diverse challenges that exist in the Baltic region make it necessary to focus on identifying areas of cooperation between the countries as they...
Flat, featureless Pig's Back island off Lithuania is where the country hopes to moor a gas terminal in 2014 and escape total reliance on supplies from Russia, two decades after the Baltic states threw off Moscow's political rule. The small bell-shaped island near the bustling port of Klaipeda is now...
In a recent report, The Lavtian based ThinkFoundation examined the opportunity that shale gas development provides for Baltic Energy Security. The following summarizes key elements of the report - Global Developments in Shale Gas:A Game Changer for the European and Baltic and Energy Security Lithuania...
Latvia is to begin the liberalisation of its gas market, in compliance with EU regulations, with discussions to begin between the government and the stakeholders in Latvijas Gaze. Latvijas Gaze, which currently has a monopoly on the Latvian gas market with control of sales, imports, transmission...
Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has said that Estonia and Lithuania are refusing to admit the "obvious" -- that Riga is the best location for the construction of an LNG terminal. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal which is planned to diversify gas supply to the three countries away from...
Prime ministers from Latvia, Poland and Estonia have turned to the EU for guidance after once again failing to reach an agreement on the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. The ministers met at the end of last week to discuss the terminal, with no agreement met on which country...
