Officials of Atlantic LNG are still evaluating the damage caused by two incidents that resulted in the evacuation of the plant at Point Fortin twice in three days. They said though they had not yet...

Russian politicians raised the possibility of a radical restructuring of the presence of foreign oil and gas companies in its energy sector this week. A spokesman at the Natural Resources ministry...

Homeless LNG is finding little charity outside the US. In stark contrast to the festive period when shelters were fighting to entice the homeless, June has left cargoes to fend for themselves.Four...

The European Commission raided the premises of German energy companies on 29th and 30th May on suspicion of anti-competitive practices, the Commission said on Tuesday.The unannounced inspections...

Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, said this week that his government was seeking to buy around 40 extra cargoes of LNG from Qatar and Oman over the next three...

Three French unions have decided to disrupt flows of power and gas on Tuesday 20th June in protest against the forthcoming merger between the country’s gas incumbent GDF and multi-utility Suez....

GAIL India, which received its first LNG spot cargo last Saturday from Algeria, is in talks to take two more spot cargoes from Sonatrach, Proshanto Banerjee, chairman and m.d. said this week with the...

Germany’s RWE Rea started drilling operations in Libya on Tuesday, which marks the first out of a 10-well minimum license contract in the Sirte Basin, south east of Tripoli, the upstream oil and gas...

Ireland moved a step closer to gaining its first LNG import terminal after Shannon LNG announced plans on 22nd May to develop a EUR 400 million ($514 million) LNG regasification terminal on the west...

Gordon Shearer, c.e.o. of Hess LNG, Shannon LNG’s parent company, speaks to HLM about Hess LNG’s strategy and plans for the future. Hess LNG was established in 2004 to develop the Weaver’s Cove LNG...

Three Japanese companies this week bought equity stakes in Oman’s Qalhat LNG project, signaling the increasing desire of purchasing companies to change their risk profiles by taking stakes in LNG...

The new French law being drawn up to allow the further privatisation of Gaz de France will keep regulated tariffs in the domestic sector, according a report in French daily, La Tribune on Tuesday....

Murphy sells gas to BintuluUS-based Murphy Oil Corp has signed a Heads of Agreement with Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas company for the sale of 250-300 Mcfd of gas for up to 15 years. Initial gas...

The election by the Statoil board of Johan Frederik Odfjell as new chairman has caused some controversy in Norway. The debate centres around Odfjell’s extremely lucrative severance package from...

More hits and misses this week for the proponents and opponents of terminals in the US, as the continent-sized bun-fight about where to regasify LNG continues. Up in the north-east US, the US Coast...

The decision on whether Poland will join the project to extend the proposed pipeline between Norway and Sweden will be made within “weeks”, according to a source within the consortium.Ole Jan Aarvik,...

Gazprom is unlikely now to choose its partners to develop the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea until August.Sergei Yemelyanov, deputy director general of Gazexport, the transit arm of the Russian...

Spanish utility Endesa’s LNG project in the Gulf of Trieste in Italy is meeting with resistance from neighbouring Slovenia on environmental grounds. The Slovenian government is now joining local...

The Spanish government has abolished its ‘golden share’ in power incumbent Endesa following pressure from Brussels, according to the state gazette Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) on Monday. Still,...

A number of skilled contractors at UK’s South Hook LNG site were told not to return to work on Monday 22nd May. in an ongoing dispute that could yet delay the terminal’s construction. The problems...