The Belgian regulator hit out on Friday at network operator Fluxys’ decision not to apply new tariffs for all its transit capacity. CREG reiterated that the tariffs imposed on transit contracts in...

Sectoral targets for emissions reductions now look less likely to be included in the forthcoming Copenhagen climate change deal, according to officials following the latest round of negotiations in...

As the third empty LNG tanker steamed into Belgium’s Zeebrugge in as many weeks to lift a cargo from the previous import terminal, the operators of Gulf of Mexico’s Sabine Pass and Freeport...

German regional utility EWE has posted a higher turnover, but lower profits year-on-year for the first half of 2008, the Oldenburg-based company said on Friday. The main reason for the fall was the...

German regional utility EWE has posted a higher turnover, but lower profits year-on-year for the first half of 2008, the Oldenburg-based company said on Friday. The fall was reportedly down to the...

Scottish Power and RWE’s npower raised their retail prices on Friday, predictably following the example earlier set by their competitors. This means that the “big six” energy companies have all hiked...

Spanish gas use up 9% y-o-y in JuneSpanish gas use rose 8.8% in June this year, compared with the same month last year, to 34,761 GWh, according to figures published on Friday by the Spanish ministry...

RWE pipeline project makes progressAuthorities in the German state of Saxonia have started the regional planning procedure (“Raumordnungsverfahren”) for a pipeline that RWE wants to build between...

Hong Kong-based utility China Light and Power’s (CLP) plan to build a regasification terminal on Hong Kong’s South Soko island has been challenged by a deal that would see the Special Autonomous...

Vertically-integrated Japanese oil and gas company Inpex Holdings announced it will build a 100 billion yen ($908 million) terminal at Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, to meet growing domestic demand.The...

Korea imported a total of 1.76 million tonnes of LNG in July, a 23% increase on the same month last year. This was due to higher domestic demand and import monopoly Kogas’ attempts to build storage...

Market coupling between France, Belgium and the Netherlands has cut congestion revenues collected by Elia by 40% in the first half of 2008, the Belgian TSO said in its half-year results on Friday. In...

Downward sentiment over crude prices, despite Georgian tensions and the imminent arrival of Hurricane Gustav in the Gulf of Mexico, combined with relatively strong Asian inventories to depress...

Storage levels at the UK’s medium-range storage sites, which include Hatfield Moor, Hole House Farm, Hornsea and Humbly Grove, were estimated at 626.57 million cubic metres (Mm3) or 78.6% fullness,...

Cheniere reveals private equity firm as white knightEmbattled US LNG import terminal operator Cheniere Energy has revealed asset manager GSO Capital Partners, part of US private equity group...

The Polish government has decided that the construction of the proposed LNG terminal on the country’s Baltic coast should be considered a strategic investment and therefore be built as soon as...

BelgiumBelgian power incumbent Electrabel is looking to build two wind farms in the North Sea, it said this week. The group has now submitted two separate concession requests to energy regulator...

Production at StatoilHydro’s Snøhvit LNG liquefaction plant in northern Norway was halted on 21st August after a gas leak was discovered at the plant, a spokesman for the plant confirmed. The...

Emissions heavy power sources have taken a stronger hold in the Spanish power mix this month, as nuclear outages created a need to generate cheap power elsewhere.A fire at the Tarragona-based 1,000...

The launch of BBL Company’s much vaunted interruptible reverse flow service has been postponed due to an objection by British energy watchdog Ofgem.BBL was due to start offering non-physical reverse...