Gas

According to the Turkish Daily Sabah, Fatih Donmez was speaking on Turkey’s efforts to ensure energy supply security and strengthen its place in energy markets in order to provide itself with better bargaining opportunities, at the 7th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council meeting. The launching of the Natural Gas Futures …

Russian energy giant Gazprom on Monday (15 February) announced a drop in its exports to Europe in 2020, when prices and demand in the energy industry collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Gazprom, which includes Turkey in Europe, said its European exports fell by 12.1% in 2020 year-on-year, down to …

The US administration is continuing to monitor the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price said at a briefing for reporters on Friday. He added that unilateral sanctions are only one of among many important tools Washington has. “We are continuing …

Qatar’s move to sanction the $28.7bn North Field Expansion project puts the country on track to return as the world’s largest LNG producer by 2030, the Oslo, Norway-based Rystad Energy has said in a report. Qatar’s liquefaction capacity will rise to 110mn tonnes per year (tpy), or 18% of the …

Qatar Petroleum took this week the final investment decision to build what it says would be the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in terms of capacity, as the tiny Gulf nation and top global LNG exporter aims to raise its annual production by 40 percent by the end …

Qatar Petroleum selected Chiyoda Corp. and TechnipFMC Plc for the main construction contract to expand its liquefied natural gas production capacity by 43%. Qatar’s energy minister and QP Chief Executive Officer Saad Al-Kaabi signed the agreement, worth about $13 billion, with the two companies at a ceremony in Doha on …

The startup in 2020 of the 31.5 Bcm/year TurkStream pipeline triggered an unprecedented reshuffle in the way Russian gas reaches southeast Europe, and now with the start of flows via TurkStream’s onshore expansion, the picture is shifting once again. Like the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipeline projects, TurkStream …

Iran’s natural gas production has reached a record high even as US sanctions caused major international exploration companies to scale back their activities in the Islamic Republic. Production has hit a record of 1.04 Bcm/d, Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said Feb. 7 on the sidelines of a petrochemicals conference …

The German government is considering the possibility of establishing a mechanism which will allow shutting down the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline if Russia reduces gas transit through Ukraine, reported German newspaper WirtschaftsWoche citing sources. According to the newspaper, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas are not considering the …

The German authorities are considering the possibility of creating a shutdown mechanism for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would be used in the case of a Russian attempt to decrease gas transit via Ukraine, German media reported. The WirtschaftsWoche newspaper reported that neither Chancellor Angela Merkel nor Foreign …