APX will operate a new gas exchange at the Zeebrugge Hub to be launched with Endex and Fluxys subsidiary Huberator in January next year. The Zeebrugge Gas Exchange will be an on-line screenbased...

The stepping up of Luxembourg-based steel maker Arcelor´s activities in Brazil may herald a shift of the company´s gas-supported production from Europe to overseas. The company, which is understood...

The Shell-Esso Brent field, which has been a constant in the UK gas supply slate for more than a quarter of century, appears to have entered its final decline. Most recent monthly production figures...

The governments of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have published a draft framework for the creation of an all-island energy market over the next three years. The document outlines the...

Dutch gas transmission firm Gastransport Services (GTS) may postpone the launch of its online booking service following the results of user acceptance tests, the company said this week. The roll out...

Belgium’s Fluxys has signed a long-term capacity subscription agreement with Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil for the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. Fluxys now has the backing it needs to go ahead with the...

The Ukrainian gas market has seen major change in the past few years, not least because industrial gas prices have now risen to the point where they cover the costs of gas procurement. At the end of...

France’s Total plans to close its Frigg pipeline - which brings gas into the St Fergus terminal in Scotland - for one month from the end of July for maintenance. Flows through the pipeline have been...

Grain LNG has begun the sale process for the additional 7.2 million tonnes per year (mt/y) of capacity it plans to add to the Isle of Grain LNG terminal. Grain LNG has already signed a 20-year...

Italian gas tariffs are to remain unchanged for the third quarter of 2004, the Italian energy regulator AEEG announced this week. The rise in the price of crude oil and petroleum products, to which...

Italy’s antitrust authority (AGCM) and the energy regulator (AEEG) have published a damning report on the lack of progress of liberalisation in Italy’s gas market, in spite of Italy having one of the...

The second half of June has been characterised by almost unabated bullishness on the NBP curve and new all-time highs on two consecutive days at the end of the third week of the month. Traders said...

The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway (Økokrim) has been called into question over its decision to fine Statoil and former director of...

The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will not refer Scottish and Southern Energy’s (SSE) acquisition of Atlantic Electric and Gas to the Competition Commission, it said on Wednesday. SSE paid £90.7...

Austrian OMV Gas, the gas subsidiary of oil and gas group OMV, is opening its gas storage facilities on a Day-ahead basis to support liquidity on the balancing market in the country´s largest...

The Wallonian government has granted German gas transmission group Ruhrgas a licence to supply end consumers in the Belgian region of Wallonia, EGM learnt recently from the Walloon energy regulator...

Lukoil, Russia’s biggest oil company, has bought Italian ENI’s 50% stake in joint venture LUKAgip. LUKAgip owns 10% of the Shakh Deniz project, 8% of the associated midstream gas marketing entity,...

Gas Natural, Spain’s dominant gas distributor and wholesaler, plans to build two LNG regasification terminals of 8 billion cubic metres (Gm3) each in Italy. The company will present its proposals to...

The first newcomer to the German gas market is celebrating its fifth birthday. Trianel European Energy Trading GmbH was founded in June 1999 by STAWAG Stadtwerke Aachen AG, ASEAG Energie GmbH,...

The UK government must continue to apply pressure on both the US and Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the House of Lords urged in a report published on Wednesday. With the environmental treaty...