Algeria’s Sonatrach is scheduled to deliver another cargo of LNG to the UK’s Isle of Grain terminal on 9th November, a shipping source told Heren Energy on Wednesday. The cargo is to be delivered on...

The Austrian energy regulator, E-Control, has given third-party access (TPA) exemption, subject to certain conditions, for the Nabucco pipeline project and expects the European Commission to give its...

Energy consumption in Germany dropped by 7.5% in the first nine months of 2007 compared with the same prior-year period, the study group AG Energiebilanzen said on Wednesday. Warmer weather was...

Eni posted a 11.4% year-on-year fall in net profit for Q3 ’07 to EUR 2.15 billion and a 9% decline in net profit for the first nine months of 2007 to EUR 7 billion, according to statement published...

The EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) comes into effect from 1st November. MiFID replaces and expands upon the existing Investment Services Directive (ISD) and in effect is...

French stocks nudged down slightly in the week to 28th October, according to figures published by storage operator DGI — Gaz de France’s major infrastructure division — and TIGF, Total’s storage and...

Two of France’s leading unions, CGT and Force Ouvrière are calling for strike action on Wednesday 14th November in response to government plans to tamper with current public sector pension...

Two of France’s leading unions, CGT and Force Ouvrière are calling for strike action on Wednesday 14th November in response to government plans to tamper with current public sector pension...

Turkey’s gas industry took another step on the road to market liberalisation on Wednesday, as Gazprom Export confirmed it had signed a supply deal with Turkish company Avrasya Gaz A.S. for 500...

The Italian market is still looking long for November, traders said on Wednesday. Those offering gas had found no buyers, but were not discounting prices significantly and the market was extremely...

Italian stocks dropped to 95.1% fullness in the week to 29th October, according to the latest data from storage operator Stogit. Storage levels fell week-on-week from 8.25 Gm3 to 8.06 Gm3, as...

UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has refuted suggestions that there could be gas and power shortages in the coming winter after the National Grid was forced to call for additional electricity...

Norwegian reservoir levels were down by 0.4 percentage points, to 91.3% fullness, in Week 43, according to the latest data from Nordic power exchange Nord Pool. The levels are now 27.3 percentage...

When StatoilHydro officially shelved plans for the 20 billion cubic metre per year Gas Network Expansion pipeline fed by gas from the giant Troll field, Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy said...

Portuguese grid operator REN’s net profit fell to EUR 144.8 million from EUR 589.5 million for the first nine months of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006. The system operator also said that...

Shareholders in Russia’s UES (Unified Energy Systems) have effectively voted the company out of existence by approving the second and final phase of its restructuring programme. UES said on Tuesday...

Vattenfall, the Swedish state-owned power company, posted a Q3 increase of 28.4% to SEK 17,010 million (EUR 1844 million) in profit after tax largely due to reduction of German corporate income tax....

Swiss power production grew 12.8% year-on-year to 7,065 GWh during July, according to the latest statistics published by the Swiss Energy Office.Hydro production increased 15.5% to 4,532 GWh, while...

Total UK announced it had started producing gas at a rate of 1.1 Mm3/d at its newly discovered West Franklin field located in the North Sea, the company said in a statement earlier in the week. The...

French watchdog CRE has decided on how transport capacity between France’s balancing zones should be allocated once three of the zones have been merged in 2009.Merging PEG Nord, PEG Est and PEG...