Gas

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 …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday stood by her backing for a German-Russian gas pipeline project despite the Navalny case and the threat of U.S. sanctions Merkel said her government’s position on Nord Stream 2 is still unaffected by tensions over Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who recovered in Germany …

Iran’s daily gas refining capacity stood at 36 million cubic meters before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, which experienced a 28-fold increase within 42 years. As the Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh mentioned, the gas industry developed after the victory of the Islamic Revolution; so, the daily gas …

Two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage tanks of phase 22-24 of Iran’s South Pars gas field have gone operational and ready to store 80,000 cubic meters of gas, the head of Iran’s Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) announced on Saturday. According to Mohammad Meshkinfam a total of four storage …

Russia’s liquefied natural gas production rose by 3.5 percent last year to a total 30.5 million tons, according to data from Rosstat, the country’s official statistics agency. In December alone, Russian producers turned out 2.85 million tons, which was up 1.4 percent on the year and 5.8 percent on November, …

Pars Oil and Gas Co. has refuted a report of a pressure drop impacting gas production from the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf. CEO Mohammad Meshkinfam told news service Shana that gas extraction had in fact increased by 65 MMcm since the start of the current Iranian calendar …

Soaring natural gas prices in European markets could be seen as a boon for Russian giant Gazprom to increase its gas exports towards the Old Continent. But instead, somewhat surprising, Gazprom is adopting the exact opposite strategy, drastically reducing its physical deliveries of natural gas to the EU. Since the …