Albania could be a more cost-effective and far easier location to build a LNG terminal than all those proposed for Italy, the country’s deputy energy minister Gjergji Bojaxhi told a conference in...

Last week HLM reported on the issue of third-party access exemptions given to new terminals, and this week HLM continues its analysis as the issue reverberates throughout the industry. The LNG market...

John Chennells, head of energy utilities division at IT services company LogicaCMG, told The Heren Report on Thursday he would be satisfied if 90% of UK installations met the EU data verification...

Spanish power major Endesa has decided to pay a EUR 1 billion bank guarantee to freeze Gas Natural’s takeover offer, the company confirmed on Thursday. Madrid’s third commercial court demanded the...

“When you talk about the future, all you know is you are going to be wrong,” Ronan Huitric, vice president of marketing at Total’s LNG division, told delegates at the London IQPC LNG conference on...

French power incumbent EDF said late on Wednesday it had awarded a tender contract for the construction of three fuel-oil combustion turbines totalling 500 MW to Alstom (two) and General Electric...

French multi-utility Suez and gas incumbent Gaz de France (GDF) have created a joint steering committee, organised into “task forces”, to implement their planned merger announced at the end of last...

The use of gas for power generation in the UK declined by 5.7% in 2005, compared with the previous year, while coal usage increased by 3.5% and electricity production from nuclear sources increased...

The merger between French multi-utility Suez and gas incumbent Gaz de France (GdF) trundles along, notwithstanding a list of conditions to be met and entities yet to give their final go-ahead, from...

Germany’s RWE plans to build a C02 -free coal-fired power plant, together with integrated coal gasification, CO2 separation and CO2 storage. The 450 MW power plant will cost EUR 1 billion, including...

Italian households will be hit with a 3.1% increase in their energy bills, from April to June 2006, on the back of high oil prices and the supply crisis in the gas sector this winter, the Italian...

UK network operator National Grid expects to report growth in operating profits when it delivers its year to end-March results, the company said on Thursday.Operating profit rose 6% for the six...

Cheniere takes on new partner Houston-based LNG terminal builder Cheniere Energy has elected Vicky A. Bailey to its Board of Directors. Ms. Bailey is president of Anderson Stratton International,...

Oman’s third LNG train, Qalhat LNG’s 3.3 million tonne per annum (mtpa) plant at Qalhat in Sur, central Oman, was officially inaugurated last Saturday by Sayyid Shabib bin Taimour al Said, His...

Russian power utility United Energy System of Russia (RAO UES) has published a list of generation projects that its divisions are to find funding for “as a matter of priority”. Anatoly Chubais,...

Brazilian gas and oil monopoly Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has a definite interest in developing import facilities but would not necessarily purchase from Trinidad & Tobago despite Brazil’s...

Swiss hydropower reservoir levels fell 1.3 percentage points in Week 13 (21st-27th March) to 15.5% fullness, according to data from the country’s federal energy office, the BFE. Levels in Week 13...

The UK government has approved the sale of British Nuclear Group (BNG) by state-owned BNFL, on the same day that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) raised its estimates for the cost of...

The UK’s CO2 emissions rose from 152.5 million tonnes (mt) to 153 mt from 2004 to 2005, the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced on Thursday. 2005 figures for CO2 are...

UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks has unveiled plans to implement a regulated price control mechanism for offshore wind farm connections, similar to that employed for onshore wind farms. Under the...