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Leaders of Norway and Lithuania have been discussing increased imports of Norwegian natural gas to the smaller Baltic country. President Dalia Grybauskaite and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg focused on Norway's possible role in helping Lithuania work towards energy independence, according...
The rewards of shale gas are starting to outweigh the potential risks of getting the energy source out of the ground for a number of European countries. Reserves of the gas are now thought to be much larger in some states than previously estimated. In others, there is growing concern over the dominance...
Lithuania's leader, Algirdas Butkevicius, has had a working meeting with Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, on energy issues between the two parties. Gazprom recently abandoned a court case against the Republic of Lithuania at an international court in Stockholm, Sweden.
Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, is dropping a court case against Lithuania after getting a profit from divestment. The gas supplier issued a statement saying the company was withdrawing a complaint filed against the Baltic republic. Lithuania last year said it was contesting the prices of a gas formula...
Lithuanian terminal operator Klaipedos Nafta and Lithuanian gas company Lietuvos Dujos have signed an agreement which will see the Klaipeda LNG terminal connected to the country's gas transport system (GTS). In a press released issued at the end of the week, Klaipedos Nafta said that the terminal...
Lithuanian shale protesters are "misguided" and are posing a threat to Lithuania becoming a prosperous country on a par with Norway, a senior official has said. Nerijus Udrenas, chief economic advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, said on Lithuanian radio station Ziniu Radijas that...
The winner of the tender for shale gas exploration in the western Lithuania will be announced in the latter part of March. Lithuania’s Commission for Hydrocarbon Resource Exploitation was scheduled to meet today with the widely held expectation that Chevron Corp. would be announced the winner...
Lithuania’s support for shale gas extraction has been underlined by the Baltic country's energy minister, Jaroslav Neverovic. Neverovic publicly restated support for Chevron Corp’s plans to explore for shale gas in the country after criticism of the project from a parliamentary committee...
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...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has met senior energy exeuctives to discuss shale gas exploration. Jay Johnson and Gilbert Ankenbauer of Chevron met the president in Vilnius. Chevron has lodged the sole tender for rights to explore and extract shale gas and oil in Lithuania. “It...
