Plans to extend the Arab Gas Pipeline (AGP) and allow Egyptian gas to reach Europe (via Turkey) were pushed forward this month as Russian company Stroytansgas signed a deal with the Syrian Gas...

The TTF prompt mostly pursued an upward trajectory in the last two weeks, pushed up by the NBP and colder weather. Mid-month, the market was spooked by an explosion at the British St. Fergus...

This month’s accord between Ukraine and Russia over supply and transit of gas for the next three years should usher in a period of increased transparency for Ukrainian imports, with the removal of...

Italian oil and gas incumbent Eni closed its acquisition of 57.25% in Belgium’s Distrigas tis month and agreed the sale to Suez of several assets and some long-term power and gas supply contracts....

As of 1st April 2009, Eon Gas Storage (EGS) will market storage capacities exclusively on a facility-specific basis, as part of a new product, the company announced this month. This new approach...

In line with the trend in neighbouring markets, the French prompt saw a consistently bullish trend throughout the second half of October, on colder weather and rampant demand. PEG Nord Day-ahead rose...

French regulator CRE is still assessing responses from market participants following a consultation regarding secondary capacity trading on the GRTgaz grid, CRE told ICIS Heren this month. The...

The German hubs mimicked trends at neighbouring markets since the middle of October. But there was the odd moment, when EGT or BEB developed a life of their own. At the BEB, this could be due to a...

German TSO Gasversorgung Süddeutschland (GVS) Netz is planning a new pipeline that would create an additional link between the TENP pipeline and the Stuttgart region, the company has announced. The...

Prompt and near curve contracts on the Italian OTC market firmed at the beginning of the two-week period on the back of a higher oil-indexed Gas Release formula and a more bullish TTF. However a...

Kazakhstan is considering supplying the Nabucco pipeline project, said Askar Batalov, the executive secretary of the country’s ministry of energy and mineral resources, during the Confidence Energy...

Activity on the back end of the NBP curve is beginning to pick up and this has resulted in a clear contango between Summer ’09 and Summer ’13 opening up over the past couple of weeks. The price gap...

NBP prompt prices continue to be volatile and have firmed over the past couple of weeks, as the UK enters a cold snap. Interest in the curve has been fairly limited due to ongoing volatility in Brent...

EU governments need to achieve ‘’greater transparency” in European gas markets in a bid to reassure LNG producers they will have “security of demand”, Dutch minister of economic affairs Maria van der...

DenmarkE&P - Denmark’s Dong Energy has submitted a field development plan to the Norwegian authorities for its Trym gas and oil field, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The cost of...

German EWE has become the majority shareholder in Turkish companies Bursagaz and Kayseri Dogalgaz, the Oldenburg-based energy supplier said this month. EWE increased its stakes in the two companies...

A total of 51.3 million cubic metres (Mm3) traded in the latest Mezhregiongaz (MRG) auction on 20th October, according to figures published on MRG’s website. Gazprom’s sales accounted for 25.2 Mm3,...

Russia, Iran and Qatar—the world’s largest natural gas reserve holders—are considering formation of a natural gas organisation similar to OPEC. During a meeting in Tehran this month, the three states...

Eustream, the recently renamed and unbundled gas transport affiliate of the Slovak national gas company SPP, “anticipates decreases in transit volumes through Slovakia as competing transit projects...

At Zeebrugge, the second half of October saw prompt prices more than recover the ground they had lost during the first half of the month. This was on a combination of colder weather and sustained...