The August ’03 Heren NBP Index —16.780 p/th — marks a slight 0.008 p/th fall from July’s Index of 16.788 p/th, but a significant 4.041 p/th rise on the August ’02 Index.The volume used to calculate...

Southern German-based interregional gas companies Bayerngas GmbH (Munich), Gasversorgung Süddeutschland GmbH (Stuttgart), and Saar Ferngas AG (Saabrücken), have established a joint gas transport...

British BP’s selling behaviour on the TTF market on Thursday has given rise to speculation the company might have participated in the gas auction of Germany’s Ruhrgas.“One seller has made a massive...

Multi-utility Centrica signalled a major investment into renewable generation in its interim results announced earlier on Thursday, the first time it has published details on money earmarked for...

British multi-utility Centrica plc posted underlying operating profit (i.e. before exceptional items and goodwill amortisation) of £694 million for the first six months of 2003, up 11% year-on-year,...

British multi-utility Centrica’s reporforation campaign on four wells at South Morecambe will have “limited impact” on the life of the field, a spokesman told The Heren Report on Thursday.According...

Some 88 North Sea licences were offered to 62 companies on Thursday as a result of the 21st Offshore Licensing Round, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said in a statement.A record 27 of...

French energy regulator CRE has submitted its tariff proposal for using gas transport networks and LNG terminals to the government. It submitted the proposal to the economic and energy ministers. The...

The German association for industrial energy users (VIK) has described the decision by German network operator BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH to introduce an entry-exit model on its system as...

Germany’s largest utility E.On said on Thursday that a joint venture of the municipal utilities of Dortmund and Bochum had emerged as the successful bidder for its 80.5% stake in water and energy...

Consort Resources, the UK independent gas producer established three years ago by former energy minister Colin Moynihan and veteran negotiator Jonathan Legg, has been sold to Caledonia Oil & Gas for...

The Interconnector pipeline linking the UK with Belgium began flowing again at 14:00 BST as planned following a five-hour shutdown to allow UK system operator Transco to clean filters in the NTS...

Turkey has agreed to resume flows through the Blue Stream sub-sea pipeline on 1st August at the originally agreed price, according to unconfirmed local media reports. Under the take-or-pay terms in...

Companies Results – Spain’s dominant gas supplier, Gas natural reported a 45% drop in first-half profit to EUR 305.8 on the impact of liberalisation in its home market, notably the reduction of its...

The return online of Elsam’s Skaerbaekværket blok 3 gasfiredunit (386 MW) has been brought forward by a week to 17th August, according to revised start-up information from Nordic power exchange on...

Christophe de Margerie has been appointed president of exploration and production at TotalFinaElf following the decision of the current president, Jean- Luc Vermeulen, to retire on 1st September....

The Russian government is unwilling to liberalise Gazprom’s share market unless it is sure it has full control over the company, says Moscow-based Alfa Bank in a research note. The government holds...

Municipal shareholders in Germany’s second biggest utility’s gas unit will reportedly meet RWE management again at the end of August to talk about the utility’s plans to merge RWE Gas into a new...

Spain’s former gas monopoly, Gas Natural, on Thursday reported a 45% drop in first-half profit to EUR 305.8 on the impact of liberalisation in its home market, notably the reduction of its 100% stake...

A total of 13,856 MW of power plant capacity was offline in the UK on Thursday, according to data from Elexon, the Balancing and Settlement Code company. This marks a slight drop from the 14,341 MW...