QatarEnergy has been announced as a FIFA Partner, today 27 March 2022, joining the line-up of companies supporting the building excitement for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. QatarEnergy is one of the largest providers of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the world and is the second Qatar-based company to …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Halt Russian Oil Purchases by the End of 2022
TotalEnergies has announced it will stop purchasing oil and petroleum products from Russia as soon as possible and by the end of 2022 at the latest. In this way, TotalEnergies wanted to address “serious and unfounded” accusations of “complicity in war crimes” for continuing to work in Russia. The energy …
Read More »Bulgaria won’t Negotiate on New Gas Purchase Deal with Gazprom
Bulgaria will not renew a natural gas supply contract with Russia’s Gazprom PJSC amid the war in Ukraine, and will look at alternative supplies and a future joint European Union contract to avoid a shortfall, Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vassilev said Saturday. The Balkan country gets almost all of its …
Read More »Shale CEO: U.S. can Easily Replace Russian Gas
U.S. natural gas can easily replace Russian gas in Europe, the chief executive of EQT, the country’s largest producer of gas, told the BBC in an interview. “We’ve got the ability to do more, the desire to do more,” Toby Rice told the BBC, estimating that the United States had …
Read More »Italy’s Eni and BP Merge Operations in Angola
Eni and BP have completed a deal to merge their oil and gas operations in Angola, the groups said on Friday. It will create a company called Azule Energy that is expected to be Angola’s largest producer, with stakes in 16 licences and in the Angola liquefied natural gas joint …
Read More »Norwegian Energy Giant Equinor Stops Trading Russian Oil
Equinor, Western Europe’s largest natural gas producer, said it is extracting oil and gas at full capacity in order to replenish the continent’s dwindling gas storage, while admitting that Europe’s dependency on Russia will be “difficult” and will require greater investment in both fossil fuels and renewables. As part of …
Read More »Shell to Halt Buying Russian Oil, Natural Gas amid International Pressure
Energy giant Shell says it will stop buying Russian oil and natural gas as well as shut down its service stations and other operations in the country amid international pressure for companies to sever ties over the invasion of Ukraine. Shell says in a statement Tuesday that it would withdraw …
Read More »Vestas Plans to Halt Four Wind Projects in Russia
Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas plans to stop four Russian wind projects in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, Danish newspaper Ekstra-Bladet reported citing company spokesperson. The four projects that are currently in the development phase include Novoalekseevskaya, Grazhdanskaya, Ivanovskaya, and Pokrovskaya. They have a combined capacity of 253MW, according …
Read More »Major Oil Companies and Investors Pull Back from Russian Arctic Oil and Gas
Several major oil companies and investors have announced in recent days they are withdrawing from Russian resource development or not pursuing new projects with Russia, including in the Arctic, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. BP was the first to announce such plans. On Sunday, the company said that it was …
Read More »Gazprom Resumes Westbound Gas Flows via Yamal Pipeline to Germany
Russian energy company Gazprom on Thursday resumed westbound gas supplies via the Yamal-Europe pipeline to Germany from Poland, data from Gascade pipeline operator showed. Flows have been at 5.9 million kilowatt-hour per hour (kWh/h), while renominations, or preliminary bids, stand at 19.3 million kWh/h until Friday morning.
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