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Poland’s PGNiG has announced that the launching of the €9.5bn Nord Stream 2 pipeline will increase the risks to the security of gas supplies to the European Union (EU). The Polish firm alongside its German subsidiary PGNiG Supply & Trading (PST) has filed its position within the certification procedure of …

Gazprom has rejected the opportunity to maximise gas sales to Europe for the second month running, with the Russian gas giant booking only a small share of available additional pipeline capacity for November. The company did not book any additional capacity on pipelines running through Ukraine to the EU for …

Russia is signaling that it won’t go out of its way to offer European consumers extra gas to ease the current energy crisis unless it gets something in return: regulatory approval to start shipments through the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In exchange for upping supplies, Russia wants to get …

Remote, quiet but energy-rich: the coastal area of Lubmin in north Germany hosts the world’s most controversial gas pipeline. Nord Stream 2 stretches for 1,200 kilometres from Vyborg in Russia through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin in Germany, bypassing Ukraine and Poland. The gas pipeline is finished, but it is …

Filling of the first string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with gas will not take a lot of time and it has been almost completely filled already, Chairman of the Energy Committee of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, Pavel Zavalny told TASS on …

Germany’s energy regulator said the Nord Stream 2 pipeline must show it would not break competition rules by limiting which suppliers used it and could face a fine if it started pumping Russian gas to Germany without securing necessary approvals. Nord Stream 2, a project led by Gazprom, which has …

The start of operations by the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the fourth quarter of this year could drive natural gas prices in Europe down to their lowest levels, Saxo Bank forecasts. On Monday, Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, announced the …

Poland’s energy company PGNiG will not have the right to veto the certification of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, says German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA). The Warsaw-based firm, however, will get an opportunity to muster the arguments during certification proceedings of the widely-debated pipeline, the watchdog said as quoted …

Germany’s federal networks regulator BNA said on Monday it would decide no later than January 8, 2022 whether it will certify Nord Stream 2 and issue an operating license for the natural gas pipeline. “The Federal Network Agency of Germany announced today that Nord Stream 2 AG has submitted all …

The completion of the Nord Stream 2, an undersea natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea that will greatly improve Russia’s capacity to transport gas to Germany, continued to drive up share prices of some Chinese energy companies on Tuesday, as some analysts said that companies investing in the Yamal …