Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Limited is looking out for new opportunities to construct LNG export terminals in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Iran and Australia, the Australia-listed firm said in its...

for new LNG terminalA consortium of Brazilian companies has committed to undertake a feasibility study on a project to build an onshore LNG terminal in Barcarena, in the state of Pará, in the north...

Bulgaria plans to complete its phase III national allocation plan (NAP) by 20 October 2009, according to the environment ministry. The NAP is expected to be accepted by Parliament shortly after,...

Issuance of certified emission reductions (CERs) has held fairly steady since one of the main auditors in the carbon market was suspended two weeks ago, figures from the UN framework convention on...

Law firm Norton Rose is warning that the European Commission’s role as the regulator of the emissions trading scheme has been put in jeopardy by Wednesday’s ruling from the EU’s Court of First...

New guidelines on integrating Europe’s balancing markets have received a cautious welcome from power association Eurelectric.Regulators’ association ERGEG wants to integrate Europe’s balancing...

European stock levels showed a build of 2.8% on average in the week to 21 September, according to the latest data published by storage operators’ association GSE. The data shows 1.7 billion cubic...

E.ON moves closerto selling grid?E.ON is actively looking to sell its high-voltage grid, according to German media on Thursday. The company is reportedly engaged in talks with various parties,...

Cooperation resolution on Rovigo plant Adriatic LNG, operator of the 8 billion cubic metres/year Rovigo regasification plant, in Italy, will have to start cooperating with Snam Rete Gas, Stogit and...

France consumed 494.5TWh of electricity in 2008, 2.9% more than in 2007, according to data from French grid operator RTE. Households consumed 198TWh, up by 5.9% year on year, while industrial demand...

The LNG industry has seen a slight rebound over the past few months from the lower-$20,000s/day charter rates being traded earlier this year. However, no fixture for the past six weeks has exceeded...

India’s 5mtpa Dabhol LNG Terminal in Maharashtra, southwest India, is expected to receive its first LNG cargo in one to two weeks, the director of the country’s ministry of petroleum and natural gas...

ConocoPhilips is considering turning the 1.9mtpa Kenai LNG export plant in Alaska, which it jointly owns with Marathon Oil, into an import terminal, the company told ICIS Heren on Wednesday. Kenai is...

Mexico’s CRE receives Manzanillo pipeline plan Mexican firm Energía Occidente de México (EIO) submitted last Friday to the national regulator Comisión Reguladora de Energía (CRE) a request for a...

A reform in China’s government-set domestic gas prices is on the cards, on the back of increasingly costlier gas resources, fuelled by a more diversified portfolio that features more imported gas, a...

US-Nordic consortium NASDAQ OMX/Nordpool intends to launch derivatives contracts on its new N2EX exchange early next year, the consortium’s head, Geir Reigstad, told ICIS Heren on Thursday.“We have...

Front-end engineering and design work for Russia’s Yamal LNG project will not be completed before 2015–2017, said Alexei Miller, chairman of Gazprom’s management committee, during a high-profile...

The Slovenian government is likely to appeal against the realisation of the 8 billion cubic metres/year (Gm3) Trieste regasification plant by Gas Natural in Italy. After a meeting with Italian Prime...

Sweden’s consumption of power in the first six months of 2009 was 187.6TWh, down by 4.9% year on year, according to government agency Statistics Sweden.The country’s energy supply also fell by 5.5%...

UK power generation fell significantly during the second quarter (Q2) of 2009, compared with Q2 ’08, according to government figures. But the rate of decline slowed markedly in July, suggesting that...