All ten lots were sold on Wednesday in Dong Energy’s Danish gas release auction, the company announced on Thursday. The auction offered a “two-way swap” for Danish gas versus sales to Dong either at...

Belgian gas major Distrigas posted 1H 2006 net profits of EUR 184.2 million on Thursday, up 60% year-on-year. High gas prices boosted the results, but the rise was accentuated by the application of a...

The story on page six of Wednesday’s ESGM “Excelerate wins consents to import winter LNG to UK” mistakenly refers to the UK instead of the US in the following sentence: “However, Excelerate’s...

Wednesday’s Zeebrugge Hub closing price assessment showed incorrect bid and offer prices for Q2 ’07 and Q3 ’07, as a result of which the published Gas Year ’06 and Year 2007 figures were also...

Czech gas prices have been cut by an average of 5.3% by the Czech regulator ERU from 1st October. Household prices will reduce by 5.5%, while the largest corporate companies will pay 5.4% less, and...

In the period from 4 September, at 12:00 to 9 September 2006, at 12:00, the pipe line Tyra East will be shut down because of maintenance. Shippers expecting to receive gas from Entry Nybro during...

Dutch energy regulator DTE is examining the profits of energy companies, in order to determine whether these have arisen from free market activities or grid management, Dutch newspaper De Financiele...

Dutch energy watchdog NMa approved on Thursday the acquisition of two privately-owned gas networks of two local utilities, Obragas Holding and Haarlemmermeergas, by the Dutch municipality of...

The value of Q4 ‘06 capacity from France to England via the National Grid and RTE-operated interconnector fell 42.5% year-on-year, in the first tranche of auctions held on Thursday, to a weighted...

Germany’s federal network agency (BnetzA) will publish the approved tariffs of 40 gas network operators in the next four weeks, a spokeswoman from BnetzA confirmed on Thursday.The regulator approved...

The Italian government seems finally to be speeding up the approvals process for LNG import terminals in the country. The government has set up a new inter-ministry energy committee, dedicated to gas...

A British MP is pressing the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the behaviour of major continental gas companies with substantial British marketing operations, The Heren Report understands. These...

Riccardo Passetto is to head Edison’s new business unit “Gas Supply & Logisitics”, which will start up in September, the company announced on Thursday. Pasetto was previously managing director at...

The Spanish industry ministry will cut the maximum price of natural gas as a raw material (CMP price) by 0.034% in September, according to a report in the state bulletin Boletin Oficial del Estado...

Spanish power demand rose 5% year-on-year in August, according to data published by grid operator REE on Thursday. Total demand reached 1.9 billion cubic metres (Gm3), as hot temperatures fuelled...

The lack of underground storage is causing serious disruption to the flow of LNG into Spain, national regulator Comisión Nacional de la Energía (CNE) said in a report on Thursday. The regulator...

Turkey put three of its electricity distribution companies up for tender on Wednesday, with the other 17 state-owned companies to follow.The privatisation administration has announced that interested...

Bulgaria’s nuclear power plant Kozloduy has been given permission to restart its 1,000 MW unit 5 following a two-month period of planned maintenance. The Nuclear Regulation Agency issued a statement...

Fluor Corporation has placed a bid to acquire British Nuclear Group (BNG), the US-based engineering company confirmed on Thursday. Fluor said that it had submitted an offer to British Nuclear Fuels...

Uzbekistan has signed a production-sharing agreement with a cluster of foreign companies to explore and develop energy resources under the Uzbek region of the Aral Sea in Central Asia.Uzbek state oil...