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Pressure drops in Nord Stream pipelines as gas leaks into sea
Pressure fell in both branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the giant Russian Yamal Arctic gas fields to Germany during the evening of September 26, reportedly due to a leak.
Secret report reveals top officials knew Bulgaria wouldn’t benefit from Balkan Stream
Sofia paid over €1.5bn for its section of the Balkan Stream pipeline, which has never delivered any gas to Bulgaria.
BRUEGEL: National policies to shield consumers from rising energy prices
The current increase in wholesale energy prices in Europe has prompted governments to try to shield consumers from the direct impact of an energy crisis that is sweeping the Continent and the rising prices that are costing hundreds of billions.
Kazakhstan offers Europe chance to kick its Russian uranium habit
Obstacle to hopes is Russia’s ownership of 40% of world's uranium conversion infrastructure, vital to making nuclear fuel.
LatAmOil: Ecopetrol requests 90-day suspension of fracking projects
Colombia’s national oil company Ecopetrol has asked ANH, the country’s oil and gas regulator, to suspend its contracts for the Kale and Platero unconventional fields for 90 days.
MEOG: Arabian Drilling prepares for IPO
DMEA: ARIA Commodities to build new downstream facilities in HFZA
UAE-based ARIA Commodities will invest AED154mn ($41.93mn) in the construction of four new downstream and petrochemical facilities in the Hamriyah Free Zone (HFZA) in Sharjah.
AfrOil: Sonatrach CEO says Algeria can meet Italian gas supply pledges
Algeria will be able to supply Italy with at least 25bn cubic metres of natural gas this year, said Tewfik Hakkar, the CEO of the national oil company Sonatrach.
AsiaElec: Indonesia backtracks on closure of coal plants
Desperate Southeast Europe governments scramble for energy resources
Facing a cold winter, Southeast European countries look to coal from Indonesia, gas from Azerbaijan and oil from Iran.
High European gas prices don’t erase Trinidad and Tobago’s challenges
Trinidad and Tobago's ability to benefit from current European market conditions is constrained by questions about gas supply, production decline and the fate of Atlantic LNG.
Romania’s government to speed up major natural gas projects
Bucharest will try to speed up development of the offshore Neptun Deep and the onshore deep Caragele field that together would cover Romania’s gas consumption for up to ten years.
REM: Matrix secures 4.6-GW US solar deal
FSUOGM: Russian oil and gas revenues dip in August
EurOil: Shell CEO to step down at year-end
AfrElec: Eskom announces launch of three programmes to procure 1,000 MW power for national grid
ING: Energy price caps are appealing, but are not without risks
On 14 September 2022, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced in her State of the Union speech a set of proposals to mitigate the impact of high energy prices.
GLNG: Germany aims to sign LNG supply deals with UAE
LatAmOil: Trinidad and Tobago’s PM seeks more leverage over gas strategy
Keith Rowley, the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, wants his country’s government to have more say in decisions about exploration, production and development strategies in the natural gas sector.
DMEA: Iran offers to complete gas pipeline to Pakistan
Mohammed Ali Hosseini, the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, says Tehran is prepared to complete a natural gas pipeline to neighbouring Pakistan as part of a wider effort to expand ties in the energy sector.
AfrOil: UNOC sees EACOP financing wrapped up soon
A representative of Uganda National Oil Co. (UNOC) has said that the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) consortium expects to wrap up arrangements for funding its $4bn project by the end of November.
NorthAmOil: Tamarack Valley to become largest Clearwater producer with Deltastream acquisition
Tamarack Valley Energy has agreed to acquire privately held Deltastream Energy for CAD1.43bn ($1.07bn).
MEOG: Iraq to begin offshore search
Croatia’s PM to fire INA managers if they refuse to resign over corruption scandal
Standoff between government and management at Croatian oil and gas company after large-scale embezzlement.
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