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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...
Vopak LNG will join forces with Elering and Tallinna Sadam to cooperate on the building of an LNG terminal in Estonia. Following the signing of a Letter of Mutual Understanding between the three, Vopak will act as the international strategic partner for the project. The three will now undertake...
The Ministry of the Environment is seeking funds to study natural gas resources in Estonia, a controversial endeavor among researchers. Requesting 54,500 euros from the government, the ministry would initiate drilling in 300 locations next year, into the dictyonema argillite layers, generally 50 to...
The Estonian cabinet has today approved a new draft law which aims to separate the supply and distribution of natural gas by 2015, as per an EU directive. The decision will mean that Estonian natural gas company Eesti Gaas will be forced to separate itself from gas sales at the same time as it...
Finnish gas supplier Gasum Oy and Estonian major gas company Eesti Gaas have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on the setting up of a natural gas exchange in the Estonian gas market. The signing comes soon after a similar understanding was reached between Gasum...
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...
Estonia should nationalise natural gas company AS Eesti Gaas, a report from Finnish consultancy company Poeyry Oyj has said. The report commissioned by transmission system operator Elering AS says that the move is necessary to further Estonia's gas interests. "The development of the natural...
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...
A statement from the eSerbian government informs that Serbia's Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning Minister Oliver Dulic met with Estonian Minister of Economy Juhan Parts and discussed the possibilities cooperation on the exploitation of oil shale in the Aleksinac basin. According to Dulic, Estonia...
Eesti Energia, Estonia's national power company, says that it is looking at ways to power the country's cars with fuel from oil shale by 2016. Speaking at a shale oil demonstration day, officials from Eesti Energia said that the potential for oil shale looked promising. Harri Mikk, the manager...