- EU approves GdF Suez and GEK to jointly control Greek power plants
- E.ON Ruhrgas produces its first gas from UK's Rita field
- Statoil awards Oseberg drilling upgrade contract to Aker Solutions
- StatoilHydro announces Alve field on stream
- Norway's Statkraft acquires Yesil Enerji
- Iberdrola buys out Greek Rokas Group
- Turkey signs deals with foreign firms for joint exploration in Iraq
- ENI lets refinery contract to GE Oil & Gas
- Gasunie to acquire stake in Skanled pipeline
- Refiners in Europe and the US are curtailing production
- Biofuel from waste can reduce landfill
- North Sea decommissioning opportunities for UK firms
- UK's Scottish Power
to build 1 GW gas fired power plant in Kent
- Gazprom to build gas storage hub in Hungary
- Mitsubishi to build 200 MW wind parks in Bulgaria
- Siemens wins major renewable energy order from Dong
- Serbia's NIS to take regional energy lead
- German gas zone operators plan more mergers
- Global oil price level stops StatoilHydro projects
- Tauern Gas Pipeline expected to enhance security of supply in Europe
- FSB opens Shtokman village for regular traffic
- Norwegian government buys more stakes in StatoilHydro
- Gazkomplektimpex and Siirtec Nigi sign contract within Nord Stream project
- Croatia and Hungary sign pipeline connection deal
- Black Sea oil can meet Turkey's needs for
40 years
- BP adds 1.7 bn barrels of new oil and gas to its reserve base
- Italian firm to provide gas treatment module for Nord Stream
- Turkish Petroleum signs agreement with ExxonMobil
- Rompetrol discharges first oil tanker at new Black Sea terminal
- Technip wins Bulgarian refinery contract
- Romania's Transelectrica to invest nearly EUR 1 bn over next 10-15 years
- Aker Solutions wins contract for Norway's Kollsnes gas terminal
- Gazprom builds up gas exports to Turkey by 25.4 mm cm
- Technip confirms consortium's award for Shtokman floater concept
- Norway's Emtunga returns as Leirvik Emtunga
- Renova unit receives approval for Italian gas storage
- PKN Orlen to acquire
remaining stake in Lithuanian refinery
- Italy's Enel acquires full control of Spanish electrical utility Endesa
- Vattenfall makes EUR 8.5 bn bid for Nuon
- Africa-Italy pipeline digs up French World War I battleship
- Trans-Saharan gas pipeline to reach Europe in 2015
- Turkish firm to transit Iran's gas to Europe
- Total places its bets globally
- Technip believes overcapacity is slowing LNG investments
- ENI plans EUR 3 bn rig for Goliat project
- Poland plans to buy stake in oil joint venture
- StatoilHydro cancels Troll upgrade project
- New owner of Shtokman license
- Mazeikiu Nafta signs deal for rail transportation of oil products
- StatoilHydro struggles with "reserves cost"
- Laying of pipes for Nord Stream is proceeding
- Total says oil output is near its peak
- PGNiG plans capex of EUR 723 mm
- Gazpromneft wants NIS to be regional leader in south-eastern Europe
- ENI sells 100 % of Stogit and Italgas to Snam Rete Gas
- Total to maintain 2009 spending at 2008 levels
- OMV wins additional offshore exploration license in Barents Sea
- StatoilHydro goes to energy's last frontier
- Total to spend EUR 154 mm on Shtokman by end 2009
- UK's National Grid to build North Sea CO2 pipeline network
- Bulgaria sells stake in refinery controlled by LUKoil
- First INA gas station opens in
Hungary
- Venture confirms Cygnus as major undeveloped gas field in North Sea
- Technip and Air Products extend global alliance
- Britain approves trio of gas-fired power plants
- Norway plans park of 250 windmills at sea
- LUKoil plans to invest $ 400 mm in Turkey
- BG delays LNG terminal project in Italy to at least 2010
- Norway supports ENI's decision for offshore development
- Nabucco pipeline may begin in Iran
- No intermediaries between Russia and Poland in gas supplies
- Gazprom prices South Stream at EUR 25 bn
- Montenegro selling 18.3 % stake in power firm
- Russia decides to opt out of Nabucco pipeline project
- Shell suffers $ 2.8 bn loss
on tumbling oil prices
- EU United on Nord Stream and Nabucco gas pipelines
- MOL signs agreement with Croatia to increase control over INA
- Europe's Nabucco delusion
- Gazprom to boost South Stream gas pipe capacity by 16 bn cm
- EU rules out funding Nabucco gas pipeline
- Gazprom shows interest in Norwegian pipeline grid
- Talisman Energy announces first production from Rev Field
- Norway approves Talisman's extension of Gyda platform use
- StatoilHydro chooses Gudrun field development concept
- StatoilHydro to use West Epsilon for North Sea drilling
- Nord Stream gas pipeline would ease Europe's energy worries... sort of
- Taqa to develop underground gas storage facility in
the Netherlands
- Algeria, the Netherlands and Shell may export Nigeria's gas to Europe
- Gazprom and ENI agree to speed up work on South Stream
- The name of the game: Gas transit system -- analysis
- Wintershall wins further production licences in Norway
- StatoilHydro sticks to 2012 output target of 2.2 mm boepd
- France awards offshore exploration permits offshore Juan de Nova
- Gas crisis gives fresh impetus to Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco
- German utility major RWE buys Essent in the Netherlands
- Iberdrola Ingenieria constructs 420 MW power plant for Latvenergo
- Nabucodonosor and Europe's gasification
- Venture starts production from UK Central North Sea Grouse oil field
- PGNiG acquires stake in NCS license
- StatoilHydro eyes more Arctic operations
- Gazprom plans two large gas storage sites in Germany
- E.ON to invest EUR 4 bn in gas grid
- New details from Shtokman
- Spain says Algeria gas pipeline is for European market
- RWE has entered a geothermal joint venture
- Enel gets green light for Sicily LNG terminal
- Exploitation of Bulgarian gas field to start mid 2009
- Record-beating of Norwegian gas exports in 2008
- Royal Boskalis wins pipeline contracts for Nord Stream project
- EdF formally buys British Energy
- PKN Orlen to spend PLN 4 bn on petrochemical projects
- StatoilHydro says gas
income was boosted by switching markets
- German power prices seen less volatile but lower in 2009
- Electricity generated in Russia will be exported to Turkey via Georgia
- Fingrid signs transmission contracts from Russia to Finland
- Gazprom most reliable EU gas supplier
- Medgaz completes pipelay operations connecting Algeria to Spain
- Rompetrol invests $ 175 mm in Black Sea offshore terminal
- Gazprom and Serbia sign deal for defining cooperation in energy sector
- Gassco to operate Kvitebjoern pipeline
- Italian-Chinese consortium signs deal with Bulgarian power plant
- Gazprom signs 25-year gas supply deal for Nord Stream with France
- Shtokman, Yamal, or both?
- PGNiG
concerned about Skanled Pipeline project
- Foster Wheeler to relocate company from Bermuda to Switzerland
- Gazprom says Shtokman is viable with oil prices between $ 50-$ 60
- RWE commits to EU to sell its German gas grid
- StatoilHydro completes drilling of Barents Sea field
- Up to 70 % of Shtokman financing will be through credits
- Faroe Petroleum lands two new offshore Faroese licenses
- UAE's Taqa and Russian Gazprom form Netherlands gas storage venture
- Total collects three new UK North Sea licenses
- The UK's gas and power worries
- Bulgaria seeks to buy Egyptian gas from 2011
- SPP signs 20-year gas deal with Gazprom
- Exxon signs deal with Romania to explore for Black
Sea hydrocarbons
- Spanish refinery upgrades on track
- French exploration permits reflect no slowdown
- Italian pipeline developers undeterred by credit crunch
- Norwegian firm to invest EUR 200 mm in Bosnian energy
- LUKoil completes deal for refinery complex venture with Italy's ERG
- Russia and Greece agree to speed up joint energy projects
- LUKoil acquires petrol stations in Hungary
- E.ON confirms plans for power plant construction
- Enel and Sharp to develop 189 MW of Mediterranean solar power plants
- MOL to cut capex by 35 % in 2009
- SABIC Europe to reduce polyethylene output by 30-40 %
- RWE increases North Sea exploration portfolio
- StatoilHydro's Oseberg field celebrates 20th anniversary
- StatoilHydro contracts four suppliers for pipes and pipe fittings
- StatoilHydro to cut oil product trading
- Dutch APX to add Luxembourg and German market to coupling mechanism
- Gazprom and Slovakia's SPP seal 20 year deal
- Shell, Aramco and Petrobras speed up project spending cuts
- Nord Stream pipeline project eyes start of construction in April 2010
- ENI delays Goliat field start-up by one year to 2013
- EC wants its own Gazprom competitor
- The race begins for Scotland's tide power bonanza
- Venture Production wins new UK license interests
- Canamens wins awards in UK 25th Seaward Licensing Round
- UK grants 171 North Sea licenses in latest round
- Faroe wins two new exploration licenses in UK North Sea
- Noreco wins six awards in UK offshore licensing round
- Norway plans more gas exports to Europe
- Court says E.ON and RWE are operating "oligopoly"
- German consortium implements "E-Energy market" project
- Ithaca Energy to develop UK North Sea Jacky field
- Polish firm plans diesel pipeline from Belarus
- Rocksource maps a third of Norway's last oil and gas reserves
- Po Valley Energy wins gas production concession in Italy
- ENI upholds decision not to land oil from Norway's Goliat field
- LUKoil finalizes joint venture with ERG
- OMV and Gazprom to
set up Central European gas exchange
- No new reserves expected to be added to Shtokman field
- BG expects energy industry costs to fall
- Record gas sales from StatoilHydro
- StatoilHydro to stick to long-term gas contracts
- EC clears proposed acquisition of ExxonMobil's subsidiaries by Galp
- Spain-Algeria pipeline nears completion
- ENI completes acquisition of interest in Belgium's Distrigas
- Gasunie's gas projects remain on track
- Iran plans major gas exports to Europe
- German power firms to cooperate on grid stability
- EU clears Dow-KPC Chemical joint venture
- Kazakhstan to increase oil flow via Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
- Slovakia seeks to buy
back 49 % stake in gas supplier
- Trans-Balkan oil pipeline hit by delays
- Syria-Turkey gas link extension planned
- StatoilHydro significantly raises Snoehvit LNG investment budget
- EU lets Gazprom into gas distribution network
- StatoilHydro boosts discovery size of Dagny structure
- ENI Norge and StatoilHydro sign development deal for Marulk Field
- European energy ministers clinch deal on liberalisation
- MOL raises INA stake to 47.1 % after public tender
- E.ON awards Babbage pipelay contract to Technip
- Iberdrola opens first wave power plant
- RWE Dea successfully drills Topaz well in UK southern North Sea
- LUKoil to spend $ 1.2 bn on Bulgarian refiner
- OMV and Borealis to expand Burghausen refinery
- Ascent begins 3D seismic survey in Hungary
- StatoilHydro gives estimates of Noatun-Njord discovery
- StatoilHydro counts 20 finds so far this year
- INA tops list of 100 most successful companies in south-eastern Europe
- Shtokman gas field partners to invest up to $ 20 bn by 2014
- StatoilHydro granted permission to buy bulk of Jet retail chain
- Shtokman preparation studies to cost $ 800 mm
- German gas transmission grid regulation extended
- Bergen wins pipe installation contract for offshore new build
- StatoilHydro boosts Dagny trove estimates
- ExxonMobil wins approval for exploration drilling in Norwegian North Sea
- Siemens and E.ON to build major Danish offshore wind farm
- GTS and Gasunie Deutschland in first integrated network development
- StatoilHydro signs drilling service deals with eight companies
- Is Shtokman in jeopardy?
- Mediterranean underscores Ombrina Mare reserves
- GdF Suez signs sales and purchase deals for NAM assets
- CEZ wins tender to modernize Romanian power sector
- Croatia approves OMV's Adria LNG terminal at Island of Krk
- EU fines petrochemicals companies for operating "paraffin mafia"
- France's Fos-Cavaou LNG terminal to start June 2009
- Czech CEZ wins Albanian power deal with EUR 102 mm
- MOL chief comments on why OMV failed in takeover attempt
- Galsi and Snam confirm Algeria-Italy pipeline plans
- MOL announces agreement on next steps for NETS project
- Scottish Power plans world's largest tidal farm
- Nord Stream route nearly munitions-free
- Gazprom set to direct shipment of gas to power plant in Italy
- Norwegian state increases stake in StatoilHydro
- Bosnia and Herzegovina's oil industry dependent on foreign firms
- Polish government wants PKN to focus expansion on energy sector
- Saipem wins $ 830 mm in drilling contracts in West Africa and Egypt
- Gazprom signs deals with Italian firms
- Turkey approves sale of two power grids
- Maersk starts production at North Sea's Dumbarton project
- Bulgaria merges energy firms into holding structure
- DNO and Premier to develop Froy oil field in Norwegian North Sea
- Vattenfall builds world's first CCS plant
- Shtokman could suffer from world financial crisis
- Total to buy Goal Petroleum (Netherlands)
- World's first floating LNG terminal sails into Italy
- Albania approves sale of state oil firm
- StatoilHydro drills for responsibility
- Burgas-Alexandroupolis project without Kazakhstan?
- War in Georgia hastens construction of Nabucco
- Wood Group acquires Irish subsea solutions group MCS
- PGNiG eyes gas licenses abroad
- Total reports production from K5F field in the Netherlands
- Serbia ratifies energy pact giving oil firm control to Gazprom
- Norwegian gas pipeline likely shut all winter
- StatoilHydro prepares platform for floating electrification
- Britain is being outbid for gas on the global market
- Total discovers more potential at West Franklin well
- France and Belgium to strengthen electricity interconnection
- Albania seeks to become major wind energy producer
- Syria and France sign agreements on oil, gas and transport cooperation
- Hess consortium appraises UK discoveries
- Bosnia wants to explore domestic oil fields
- Petrom buys twice the volume of oil to offset stagnating production
- Heerema begins to dismantle North West Hutton
platform
- Turkish Minister invites firms to Black Sea oil explorations
- Turkey to build natural gas plant in Turkmenistan
- Rosneft has holding company in Dublin
- Turkey to ask Azerbaijan to double natural gas deliveries
- Bosnia seeks partners to explore for oil and gas
- Nord Stream construction route corrected
- RWE seeks German offshore wind park capacity of 1 GW by 2012
- The Netherlands set to become power exporter in 2009
- South Wales has good coal seam methane potential
- StatoilHydro's oil terminal at Mongstad recovers oil vapour
- DNV is developing the first CO2 pipeline standard
- Heerema Marine opens office in India
- Northern Norway
needs more power
- PGNiG seeks upstream gas projects in Norway and North Africa
- OMV to buy 60 % stake in Turkish power firm and to build power plant
- Consortium secures Borgland Dolphin rig for drilling offshore Norway
- OMV begins Austrian gas production
- StatoilHydro to add 600,000 bpd to NCS production by 2015
- Iceland gets ready for offshore drilling
- Norway's industry likely to drill 40-45 wells in 2008
- StatoilHydro to maintain production off Norway for 10 years
- Nord Stream may extend pipeline project with gas reservoir
- BP Norway to double activity by 2012
- Albania to sell oil refinery
- Iberdrola to develop 1,250 MW of renewable energy projects
- Odessa-Brody pipeline to operate in straight direction next year
- Customer survey shows high demand for Nabucco pipeline
- Dutch-UK gas pipeline expansion given final go-ahead
- Former Finnish PM to lobby Nord Stream project
- French GdF Suez wins tender to control Turkish gas company Izgaz
- StatoilHydro extends service contracts
- EU clears grid firms in five countries to form transmission joint venture
- EMGS undertakes electromagnetic mapping of Barents Sea
- PGNiG opens new gas field in Poland
- ConocoPhillips wins council permit for CHP plant at UK LNG plant
- Iberdrola to build grid link for Spanish wind farms
- PGNiG signs oil and gas field development contract with
consortium
- Croatian LNG terminal faces possible two-year start-up delay
- Petrom to borrow EUR 500 mm to finance investment programme
- RosUkrEnergo supplied Eastern Europe with 10 bn cm of gas in 2007
- Wind can produce over 25 % of EU electricity by 2030
- Nord Stream aims to improve gas transit
- OMV scraps hostile bid for MOL
- StatoilHydro steps up exploration efforts
- Gas Natural finalizes acquisition of 9.9 % of Union Fenosa
- StatoilHydro awards NOK 1.2 bn in seismic contracts
- Croatia's LNG terminal to be completed by 2014
- StatoilHydro produces first oil from Vilje field
- Britain's energy crisis: Twisting in the wind
- PGNiG approves
oil and gas field development tender
- MOL buys twelve more petrol stations in Austria
- StatoilHydro's name to soon disappear
- Russia becomes Turkey’s top oil supplier
- StatoilHydro undertakes more exploration drillings in Barents Sea
- RWE and PGNiG in talks to build Polish gas-fired power plant
- SOCAR and MOL to intensify cooperation on Nabucco project
- Arctic: The next colonial scramble
- Hungarian power grid operator joins capacity allocation office
- E.ON signs asset swap agreement with Statkraft
- Portugal, Renault and Nissan -- an unlikely alliance for electric futures
- Turkish group seeks European backing for Medstream pipeline
- Prime ministers of Croatia and
Hungary support INA/MOL oil share swap
- Oilexco tests Moth field in UK central North Sea
- Russia exceeds targets for gas supplies via Ukraine to Europe
- Energy majors file complaint to Norway over Gassled pipeline
- Croatia sets deadline for INA suitors
- StatoilHydro exercises its options on service and support contracts
- Gas Natural and Gazprom sign LNG deal
- E.ON and DONG buy out Shell stake in London Array offshore wind farm
- Taqa targets £ 10 bn of North Sea assets as it looks to long term
- Gazprom to set up company in Turkey
- US Weatherford buys Romanian drilling firm
- Serbia to review deal on sale of NIS oil company to Gazprom
- Nord Stream survey finds Soviet
submarine wreck
- Romgaz and Aurelian to launch gas prospecting in Slovakia and Poland
- Po Valley wins first offshore oil and gas license in Adriatic Sea
- Analysis: MOL driving regional consolidation in oil and gas sector
- Bayerngas Norge enters Denmark
- RWE offers to strengthen German grid cooperation
- Gazprom Neft sets up working group to cooperate with Serbia
- ONGC in bid to acquire Russia's Imperial Energy
- Hungary and Romania to connect natural gas systems
- Italy's new LNG tariffs criteria to offer stability
- European Parliament votes against Nord Stream
- OMV in running for INA stake
- Gazprom weighs up pipeline to pump Libyan gas to Europe
- PGNiG and Gazprom eye second stretch of Yamal gas pipeline
- Centrica buys stakes in Norwegian oil and gas fields
- Edison and Hellenic Petroleum form Greek electricity venture
- Taqa unit to acquire six offshore fields in North Sea
- Gazprom gears up for construction of first drilling platform at Shtokman
- Gaz de France and Acea enter Italian storage market
- Petroceltic wins nine Italian exploration permits
- BP may use Hod field beyond original expected design life
- China Oilfield Services to make offer for Norway's Awilco
- National Grid and RTE to invest in UK-France power cable
- Fluor and E.ON join on CO2 capture plant
- Bulgargaz and GdF unite
- Norway suspects hidden oil on Gullfaks field
- MOL buys I&C Energo from CEZ
- FMC wins order for Troll B gas injection project from StatoilHydro
- ENI Norge plans to electrify Goliat FPSO
- Rosneft proposes joint oil venture with EU
- Rosneft set to create full-cycle joint venture in East Europe
- Iran and Poland to sign $ 2-bn LNG contract
- Gazprom proposes natural gas filling stations in Europe
- Petrom to start exporting gas through Romania-Hungary as soon as 2010
- Norwegian firm presents new generation of wind power plants
- Shell believes world can stabilise greenhouse gas level
- Saipem scores EUR 710 mm in onshore drilling contracts
- Shell plans
floating LNG project
- Gazprom eyes 10 European power plants with total 3,000 MW capacity
- IPIC and Wintershall sign MoU on oil investment
- Melrose to convert Black Sea gas field into storage facility
- LUKoil pays $ 2 bn for stake in Italian refiner
- Brazil set to export ethanol to Sweden
- Analysis: Turkey pushes new pipeline
- DONG Energy to invest in Polish wind farm
- Trans-Balkan oil pipeline cost rises to EUR 1.5 bn
- Saipem signs pipe laying contract for Nord Stream
- Dockwise to deliver two topsides to Shtokman gas field
- Five planned LNG terminals in Italy move forward
- StatoilHydro submits plan for Troll oil and gas field
- Gazprom to
invest in Moldovan pipelines
- PGNiG awards contract to Technip
- Gazprom says gas prices will keep rising for Europe
- Gazprom to extend contract with Germany's WIEH by 35 years
- Norway’s PSA deems Barents Sea exploration too risky
- Gazprom eying French markets
- Gazprom decides South Stream will cross Slovenia
- MOL to break away from OMV subsidiary in Romania
- Poland plans partial power sector privatization by 2011
- Marine power schemes behind on wind power by only five years
- MOL forced to reshuffle gas business
- Gazprom finds home market more attractive than Europe
- Growing problems threaten to make the Nabucco project a pipedream
- Bulgaria says Burgas pipeline delayed
- StatoilHydro to replace drilling equipment at Statfjord B platform
- Rompetrol Gas makes LPG acquisition in Moldova
- Gazprom's gas supplies may fall short of European demand by 2015
- Nabucco chief eyes Iranian and Russian gas despite US objectives
- Shell seeks wider role in developing Middle East-Europe pipelines
- Gasunie joins Nord Stream pipeline project
- Hellenic Petroleum acquires petrol chain of Bulgaria’s Opet Aygaz
- MOL and CEZ receive all regulatory approvals for joint venture
- StatoilHydro must give more to northern Norway
- Black Sea oil field may make Turkey energy independent
- German power market to boost transparency
- E.ON gains full control of Endesa Italia
- Researcher thinks new state-owned Arctic oil company needed
- Foster Wheeler wins FEED contract for Polish LNG project
- EU clears Enel-Acciona bid for Endesa
- OMV not to refuse Nabucco project in favour of South Stream
- Gaz de France eyes gas projects in Central Europe
- Gamesa and Iberdrola Renovables sign world-biggest wind turbine deal
- Neste Oil to build biodiesel plant in Rotterdam
- MOL unit plans gas expansion and logistics centre
- Greece and Italy sign gas pipeline deal
- INA to invest $ 1.1 bn in oil refinery modernization
- EU objects to sharing of gas markets by E.ON and Gaz de France
- Petrobaltic
acquires exploration and production shares of Lotos
- StatoilHydro and Russia cement cooperation on oil spill preparedness
- NUON to acquire North Sea assets from ConocoPhillips
- Nord Stream gas project serves Europe's energy interests
- Azerbaijan boosts production as Europe and Russia vie for gas
- Rosneft studying oil refinery purchases in Asia and Europe
- Norwegian firm gets green light for reloading of Russian oil
- StatoilHydro believes oil world is at environment crossroads
- Steel prices to increase cost of Nabucco gas pipeline
- ExxonMobil to start up two LNG regasification terminals in Europe
- Romania’s Petrom to double planned investment
- Kazakh oil to flow into Turkey after historic
deal
- Iran to launch gas pipeline construction under Nabucco project
- Poland wants to fully privatize all four power groups
- South Stream pipeline may carry Azerbaijani gas
- ENI signs agreement to acquire Distrigas stake from Suez
- RWE offers to sell off German gas transport network
- UK power giant says energy industry on the brink of radical change
- SOCAR takes over 51 % of Turkish petrochemical complex
- Nippon Oil joins North Sea project
- Ithaca signs deal with Bluewater for North Sea field
- Euro-Asian oil transportation corridor proposed at Kyiv energy summit
- Gaz de France and Hoegh to partner for Adriatic LNG project
- Blackouts sweep UK in electricity
shutdown
- StatoilHydro believes Shtokman project will be a tough race
- GdF-Suez merger goes ahead
- Preparation works for Shtokman LNG plant to start in August
- Statoil's Yttergryta prospect: From find to field in no time
- Canadian Stream Oil & Gas to invest in Albanian energy projects
- US consortium wins control of Albanian oil refinery
- Iran to raise petrochemical export to Europe by 20 %
- UK-Belgium gas flows fall to lowest-ever level for May
- Italy's Enel wins rights to convert Romanengo field and gas storage site
- LUKoil opens first filling station in Belgium
- Schlumberger wins contract in North Sea from StatoilHydro
- DNO reassesses Mulle discovery
- StatoilHydro to build first full scale offshore floating wind turbine
- North Sea oil and gas asset sales held up by decommissioning logjam
- Turkey and Austria prepare for cooperation on energy
- Heerema completes construction of Hasdrubal platform
- US investors win control of Albania's only oil refiner
- Chief executive of Shell answers questions on outlook for oil industry
- France prepares for gas trading exchange
- Gazprom receives permission for industrial gas supplies to Belgium
- Total achieves first gas from Jura field in Northern North Sea
- E.ON to invest and promote energy storage
- Gazprom signs up to trade carbon products on Nord Pool power exchange
- StatoilHydro
completes drilling at Tornerose discovery in Barents Sea
- Germany launches first biomass to liquid plant
- Wipro to foray into renewable energy
- Iran to start exporting gas to Switzerland in 2009
- Airtricity and Fluor to build world's largest offshore windfarm in Suffolk
- INA aims to sell petrol to EU markets in 2009
- EC approves CEZ-MOL gas joint venture
- OMV streamlines petrol station network
- MOL buys 70 petrol stations in Austria from Doppler
- Cairn set to explore Greenland's frontier
- Norway's CO2 emissions up as StatoilHydro flares gas
- E.ON announces details of planned grid and capacity sales
- Hungrana to triple bioethanol capacity in Hungary
- Total believes spike in oil prices is bad for everyone
- Gazprom sells 21 bn cm of Nord Stream gas to EU companies
- EBRD buys OGK-5 stake from Enel
- Shell abandons largest offshore wind farm project
- ExxonMobil, MOL and Falcon to produce gas at new Hungarian gas field
- StatoilHydro extends life of Tune field
- Sonatrach sells gas to Spanish utility directly
- BP plans to spend $ 8 bn on alternative energy technologies
- FYROM completes power transmission line to Bulgarian border
- The North Sea oil's ebbing tide
- StatoilHydro wins Barents Sea permit
- Shell still in talks to join Trans Anatolian pipeline consortium
- LUKoil acquires gas station chain in
Croatia
- Faroe and Dong agree to like-for-like swap in stakes
- Gazprom and VNG to build gas storage facility in Germany
- Dana Petroleum approves development of North Sea Babbage field
- StatoilHydro starts operations at Vigdis East structure in North Sea
- Fluor to build LNG terminal on Spain's north coast
- E.ON to invest EUR 400 mm in major Danish offshore wind project
- StatoilHydro approves plan for Morvin field
- Sonatrach to start marketing gas in southern Europe
- Serbian cabinet confirms oil company sale to Russia's Gazprom
- EMGS to conduct scanning of Barents Sea for hydrocarbons
- Qatar and the Netherlands forge closer gas ties
- StatoilHydro awards three
contracts
- Final development decision for Shtokman expected in 2009
- Belgian CHP plant to run on crude jatropha oil
- Enel to sell power grid this year
- StatoilHydro starts carbon storage at Snoehvit
- Venezuela to challenge ExxonMobil in Dutch court
- Petrom plans EUR 1.7 bn investments this year
- Reliable gas? Not for Iran, Turkey and Europe
- Nuon to build combined cycle plants in the Netherlands
- Aker Solutions and Shell form alliance for German refineries
- StatoilHydro sets world records with difficult wells
- Samsung wins LNG order in Europe
- MOL expects results of unconventional gas project with Exxon by 2012
- RWE signs renewable energy
deal with 50 utilities
- StatoilHydro starts oil output from new Oseberg area field
- Russia to take South Stream around Austria?
- Greece agrees to join South Stream pipeline
- Poland and Ukraine agree on oil transport from Central Asia to Europe
- Gaz de France secures new LNG supply with Shell deal
- Poland and Ukraine to press ahead with oil pipeline from Azerbaijan
- Falcon Oil & Gas signs deal in Hungary with ExxonMobil
- StatoilHydro's discovery of Obesum field may be bigger than thought
- PKN Orlen and Kuwait Energy to explore oil and gas off Latvian coast
- Finland to support Norway and StatoilHydro in Shtokman project
- Poland eyes LNG from Qatar and partnership for terminal
- Gazprom and ENI plan to jointly pipe natural gas from Libya to Europe
- NIOC strikes oil exploration deal with Croatia's INA
- Nord Stream drops Baltic service platform plan
- TransAtlantic Petroleum farms out Turkish exploration licenses
- Halliburton and WellDynamics get $ 900 mm contract from StatoilHydro
- MOL looking to make acquisitions
- EU urges Kosovo to move ahead with power project
- Norway looking for oil in Lofoten areas
- UK Sullom Voe terminal partners agree upgrade of gas processing
- Ireland's Shannon LNG terminal granted full planning permission
- ENI and Gazprom discuss strategic partnerships
- Gazprom calls for long-term deals with Europe
- Shtokman budget too low
- Heerema wins contract for UK Buzzard development
- StatoilHydro to face strictest green regulations at Ververis field
- Gazprom puts EUR 7.4 bn price tag on Nord Stream
- StatoilHydro to raise 2008 research and development spending by 20 %
- StatoilHydro to invest 20 % more on research in 2008
- Centrica looks at storing gas under the Irish Sea
- Slow EU reform may hinder Dutch gas hub plan
- StatoilHydro and CNPC study oil recovery options in Norway and China
- ABB to transmit offshore wind to German power grid
- US steps in to prevent collapse of Nabucco gas pipeline project
- Nestle believes biofuel boom threatens food supplies
- Lessons from Germany's energy renaissance
- Van Oord Offshore wins contract from Midia Marine Terminal
- US launching legal review of Swiss-Iran gas deal
- Stratic Energy produces first gas from field offshore Turkey
- Shell issues 2008 strategy update
- Matra wins new exploration license in Hungary
- Italy's Enel to become first integrated firm in Romania's energy sector
- European companies to explore integrated pipeline network
- Shell replacing oil reserves faster than depletion
- Iran signs gas deal with Switzerland
- Statkraft chooses NorWind for concept study of offshore wind power
- Gazprom gives Shtokman assignments to French firms
- Gaz de France
receives first LNG from Snoehvit
- Finland believes Nord Stream gas line should not be private
- Total's LNG output to rise to 14 mm tons by 2010
- Central Asia will be selling gas at Europe’s prices starting from 2009
- OMV wins another exploration license in Norwegian Sea
- Northern Petroleum upgrades Adriatic Sea licenses
- Petrom set to expand internationally
- Work begins on Algeria-Europe gas pipeline
- Shell achieves breakthrough in floating LNG production technology
- US flooding of subsidised biofuels could ruin Europe’s market
- Saipem wins new offshore contract worth EUR 390 mm
- StatoilHydro extends contracts for Odfjell Drilling to 2010
- Nabucco signs deal for
Azerbaijan gas supplies
- ConocoPhillips awards contract for Ekofisk platforms to Heerema
- Bioethanol project plans sizzle out in Hungary
- Ireland awards four exploration licenses
- Electrabel to order 500 MW of wind turbines
- CEZ to build gas power plants
- Iran and the Netherlands sign petrochemical contract
- EBRD provides EUR 150 mm loan to Ukrenergo
- Saipem and OLT Offshore sign conversion contract
- E.ON and Gazprom sign construction deal for Nord Stream power plant
- ArcelorMittal to make EUR 1 bn investments in Romania
- Repsol-YPF announces Strategic Plan for 2008-12
- PKN Orlen plans refining output boost in 2008
- Bulgaria Energy Holdingto be largest energy firm in south-east Europe
- Albania launches international tender for privatization of refinery
- UK's National Grid to offer winter LNG storage injection rights
- Baltic Oil Terminal to build refinery and oil terminal in Latvia
- Wingas to develop biogas facility in Bavaria
- Nord Stream to sign LoI with Eupec
- Norway to buy more shares in StatoilHydro
- EdF and Gas Natural sign LNG agreement
- Rompetrol Group to invest EUR 233 mm this year
- RWE acquires stake in US LNG business
- Gazprom and E.ON to build power plant in Germany
- Could Russia-Ukraine gas row obstruct South Stream project?
- Northern Norway blinded by oil expectations
- StatoilHydro sees budget overrun at Snoehvit field
- Regulators clear GE's purchase of Luxembourg drilling supplier
- ENI to develop Goliat oil field offshore Norway
- Snoehvit LNG-plant needs reconstruction
- BP can pump 4 mm bpd until 2020, even without new finds
- Poland's energy security: Dealing with Russia
- Sinopec to invest in upgrade of Bulgarian refinery
- StatoilHydro confirms budget blow-out at Statfjord project
- Repsol awards Fluor contract for expansion of refinery
- Technip wins contract for refinery in Greece
- Italy seeks gas hub status but faces strong competition
- Transgaz Medias and NGT interested in merging regional gas networks
- StatoilHydro delivers initial shipment of Snoehvit gas to US
- ENI and Enel sign carbon-capture deal
- Shell thinks Europe should listen to Russia on energy
- Independent oil traders concerned about likely merger of MOL and OMV
- France's refining industry facing major changes
- RWE Innogy signs MoU with REpower for 1,900 MW of wind turbines
- Shtokman deal seals Europe's gas supplies
- Fortum and TGK-1 sign emissions deal
- Iberdrola acquires 50 wind farm projects in Romania
- German unit of Suzlon wins French windpower order
- Switzerland and Turkey to jointly work on power plants
- EdF and Gas Natural sign LNG agreement
- Bulgaria to merge five energy firmsto create single company
- StatoilHydro and EGL to build Trans Adriatic Pipeline
- Total reveals $ 19 bn capital budget for 2008
- Electrabel to invest EUR 5 bn in European renewable energy projects
- France asks IMF to look at windfall tax on oil profits
- StatoilHydro's Volve field comes on stream
- Norway awards 52 licenses in latest lease sale
- Gazprom ready to join Nabucco
- Sourcing the Nabucco pipeline to prevail against South Stream
- ConocoPhillips wins access to Northwest European LNG market
- OMV pursues two-track policy in relation to EU
- Electricite de France unveils plans for energy research centre
- Major Mediterranean expansion for Hellenic Petroleum
- RWE Npower to build tidal power plant off UK coast
- MOL calls for merging of Central-Eastern European gas networks
- Austrian energy regulator seeks increased local and EU competition
- Gaz de France prefers South Stream to Nabucco
- PKN Orlen to buy Baltic Sea oil exploration company
- Russia thinks Amber project is not an alternative to Nord Stream
- Nabucco partners reject GdF as candidate
- Nabucco to invite Gazprom to send gas to European markets
- BP replaces oil and gas reserves by more than 100 %
- Gazprom and Europe sing in harmony on energy security
- RWE confirms involvement in Nabucco pipeline
- Hungary interested in both Nabucco and South Stream
- Lithuanian refinery running at full capacity
- Lithuania to merge energy companies
- Ex Shell chairman calls for gas guzzler ban
- OMV seeks EU approval for hostile takeover of Hungary's MOL
- Oiltanking venture to invest in terminal and storage in Marseilles
- GRTgaz to expand French gas transmission system
- Gazprom Neft wins tender for oil supplies to Serbia
- Turkey launches oil and gas exploration in Aegean Sea
- BOTAS working on routing Egypt gas through Syria
- Electrabel to build the largest onshore wind farm in Belgium
- MOL and Roth Group open Hungary’s largest biodiesel plant
- Oil products storage depot planned for Marseille
- SOCAR to invest up toEUR 10 bn by 2017 to develop plants in Turkey
- Trans-Black Sea pipeline studies under way
- Shell to increase capex on global projects by EUR 20 bn in 2008
- MOL and Roth Group open Hungary’s largest biodiesel plant
- Aktor wins LUKoil order for Bulgarian refinery
- Gas production starts from A12 field off the Netherlands
- Northern Petroleum gets preliminary award for Adriatic Sea field
- Electrabel to build natural gas power plants in Germany
- RWE signs MoU to take stake in Turkish electricity producer
- Gazprom to take 50 % stake in Austrian gas hub
- Edison and Depa to set up Poseidon gas pipeline joint venture
- Aker Kvaerner and ExxonMobil extend long-term North Sea contract
- Major producers in biofuel sector welcome EU’s new biofuel policy
- Philips acquires patent for part of energy return system
- Gazprom Neft to pay EUR 400 mm for 51 % of Serbian oil firm
- LUKoil conquering Croatia
- LNG terminal on the Adriatic to edge forward
- MOL strikes Romanian pipeline deal
- Nord Stream needs more backing from EU to meet time schedule
- Aker Kvaerner changes name to Aker Solutions
- Serbia approves Russian energy deal
- Finland urges Nord Stream to change pipeline route
- Sub-Atlantic to search for unexploded munitions near Nord Stream pipeline
- Romanian market too small for British Petroleum
- INA to invest EUR 350 mm in
refinery
- ENI takes 77 % stake of Burren Energy
- Repsol-YPF board approves EUR 3.2 bn investment for refinery
- Albanian-Italian Green Energy plans wind farm and bio-fuel power plant
- StatoilHydro seeks to boost production by 2012
- PGNiG to spend EUR 400 mm on stage 1 of LNG terminal
- Repsol-YPF to double capacity at Cartagena refinery
- Syria and Turkey to form joint oil exploration company
- Shell plans three wells off Danish Faroe Islands and Ireland
- Nord Stream expects pipeline costs to exceed EUR 5 bn
- Construction of Elbasan-Podgorica power line underway
- RWE Power and GE to develop new power storage system
- South Stream pipeline to go into operation in
2013
- Shell grants five-year partnership deal to Aker
- Bulgaria to join South Stream project
- BG offers interested companies acquisition of North Sea gas stakes
- BG wins drilling approval for southern part of North Sea
- Shell starts gas production from UK's Starling field
- Greenland opens tracts to oil firms
- Big six UK energy retailers collude on pricing
- EU clears acquisition of Shell’s refineries in France by Petroplus
- StatoilHydro hopes to raise total equity production to 2.2 mm boepd by 2012
- France and Spain to set up joint cross-Pyrenees electricity grid firm
- Gazprom ready to enter Irish market
- KazMunaiGaz borrows EUR 2 bn to buy Rompetrol
- SOCAR plans to invest EUR 6.7 bn in Turkey
- Spain approves plan to double Gaviota gas storage capacity
- Tethys Oil wins exploration license in Greater Gotland
- CEZ and MOL to create power joint venture
- Nord Stream pushes back start date for gas shipments
- NAM to reopen Dutch onshore field
- Talisman starts production at Wood field in North Sea
- Norway to conclude licence round for North, Norwegian and Barents Seas
- Gazprom and BASF to jointly operate gas storage in Europe
- Vopak and Gasunie to invest in Rotterdam LNG terminal
- StatoilHydro wins oil licenses in UK continental shelf from Chevron
- German regional utilities to merge into national player
- OMV and NAFTA partner up for exploration in Slovakia
- Gazprom to spend EUR 200 mm on Enel’s assets
- RIL could sell its fuel in the US and Europe
- Europa wins drilling permit for oil fields in France
- Malta grants license to Heritage for oil exploration
- Saipem to build new deepwater vessel
- E.ON signs power plant deal with Siemens
- Technip wins contract for Gdansk refinery upgrade
- Mazeikiu Nafta submits plan for products pipeline
- MOL and Gazprom to mull joint pipeline company
- The first hydrogen society in Norway
- Poland urgently tries to close oil contract loophole
- PGNiG acquires interest in Danish license
- BP Solarto build large assembly factory in Spain
- Bulgargaz buys stake in Romanian Transgaz
- StatoilHydro’s Njord field enters natural gas stage
- StatoilHydro expects to produce 1.9 mm boepd in 2008
- StatoilHydro forecasts 2008 capital expenditure
- Turkey awards refinery licence to Calik-IOC consortium
- Bulgaria awards Block Galata exploration rights to Melrose
- Total to invest in development of UK's Alwyn field
- DONG Energy increases stake in Norwegian hydropower
- Russia will not drop South Stream project due to rival Nabucco pipeline
- MOL urges to unite gas transmission firms of Central and South Europe
- Nabucco pipeline future uncertain
- Edison plans EUR 3 bn power
investments
- MOL unveils Central European gas plan
- EnCore and Star agree on gas storage project
- Gaz de France and Sonatrach extend LNG contracts to 2019
- Enel, E.ON and Termoelectrica to build power unit for Braila plant
- StatoilHydro receives approval for Barents Sea Exploration
- Enel signs energy cooperation deal with Albania
- DONG Energy invests in UK offshore wind farms
- Montenegro and Italy undertake power link study
- PKN Orlen to expand into Baltic states
- Italy's Edison plans major boost in renewables investment 2008-13
- ENI agrees to buy Burren Energy for £ 1.74 bn
- Skanska: “Civilizing” the Ecuadorian Amazon
- StatoilHydro awardssubsea contract to Aker Kvaerner
- Hellenic Petroleum teams up with Edison of Italy
- New pipeline gives boost to gas supply in UK
- StatoilHydro hands over Ormen Lange operatorship to Shell
- Power shortage threatens Balkan countries
- Statkraft comes with new answer to the quest for renewable energy
- Gazprom and BASF form gas trading unit
- Gazprom to stick to Nord Stream plans
- Heerema delivers platform template for Angola
- KazMunaiGaz eyes remaining 25 % in Rompetrol
- South Stream gas pipeline project kicks off
- Oil & Gas UK issues guidelines to reduce cost of tendering process
- Pertra, NOIL and DNO resolve to execute Petra/NOIL combination
- Gas de France interested in Romanian-Hungarian gas pipeline
- Gazprom to boost direct sales in Europe
- Sea of Solutions and Sparcs to work on new offshore wind energy concept
- StatoilHydro says explosive growth poses greatest energy challenge
- Gazprom’s partners to buy Shtokman gas on general terms
- Suez acquires 50 % share in leading French wind energy producer
- Shtokman to be incorporated in Switzerland
- KazMunaiGaz receives approval for acquisition of Rompetrol
- Nord Stream bid will come after ecological assessment
- Europe keen to join Iran in LNG project
- Mazeikiu Nafta resumes production
- OMV and Gazprom to have 50:50 stake in Baumgarten gas trading hub
- Baltic pipeline agreement reached
- Gazprom upgrades gas reserves at Shtokman field
- LUKoil awards Foster Wheeler CFB contract for Romanian refinery
- Enel intends to build ecological thermal power plant
- StatoilHydro to specify Shtokman gas field investment in 2 years
- ENI’s Scaroni says Europe runs risk of gas shortage
- BP confirms UK supply problems
- Gazprom to build electricity plants in Germany
- Wintershall acquires operatorship of Bennett prospect from EnCore
- INA signs new facility construction contract
- Contracts signed for Italian section of Galsi gas line
- CEZ completes merger of three Bulgarian power utilities
- Shell and ExxonMobil part
from German gas pipeline assets
- Gazprom and ENI sign deal on South Stream gas pipeline
- Tullow begins production at Kelvin field in North Sea
- Finland wants environmental study of Nord Stream gas pipeline
- Galsi and Snam sign MoU for new pipeline from Algeria to Italy
- Gasunie joins Baltic gas pipeline project
- Valhalla wins new licensing option in Celtic Sea
- New technology focus prompts new finds for StatoilHydro
- AF signs LoI with Heerema to decommission nine platforms
- Swedish construction versus indigenous survival in the Amazon
- German energy giants accused of conspiracy
- OMV signs MoU to join IPIC in Middle East, North Africa and Caspian
- Island Oil & Gas
signs MoU for assets in Moldova and Tatarstan
- Gazprom to build Nord Stream branch in Czech Republic
- EdF Energy gets approval to build UK CCGT plant
- MOL takes over Croatian Tifon
- Nord Stream consortium calls current route “best solution”
- MOG wins Italian exploration permits
- Total chief warns on world’s oil output
- Sweden wants Baltic pipeline study to include other routes
- MOL cleared by European Commission to buy Italian oil firm IES
- BP to sell its last refinery in UK to Petroplus
- Dresser-Rand and Repsol-YPF form alliance
- Gazprom to supply 500 mm cm of gas to Turkey annually
- Shell moving East for key future markets
- EU approves
Basell's acquisition of Lyondell
- KazMunaiGaz to borrow EUR 2 bn to finance Rompetrol takeover
- Iberdrola buys four Hungarian wind farm projects
- MOL signs gas deal with Serbia
- Iberdrola approves new strategic plan for 2008-2010
- BP’s efficiency overhaul to involve heavy cuts of North Sea workforce
- Ascent agrees to sell Spanish oil assets
- Snam Rete to construct gas pipelines for Gas Natural's network
- StatoilHydro joins Shtokman development
- Shell may build new desulfurization plant in the Netherlands
- Kazakhstan ready to join Nabucco project
- Talks between Kazakhstan and Kashagan oil companies stall
- First Snoehvit LNG shipment leaves Melkoya port
- AF to build onshore pipeline for StatoilHydro
- Galp to acquire ENI’s downstream business in Spain and Portugal
- Norway will not approve enhanced gas output at Troll field
- ENI gets approval to drill exploration well in Norwegian Sea
- Vroon acquires Italian utility vessel operator
- Bulgaria invites two more partners to Nabucco gas pipeline project
- Fugro wins Galsi pipeline route contract
- Merger of MOL and OMV would be "unacceptable" regional monopoly
- Shell unveils NAM licence sale
- Bulgaria hopes to strengthen partnership between Gazprom and Bulgargaz
- E.ON gets green light to build 1,200 MW gas fired plant in Britain
- Oil & Gas UK launches UKCS decommissioning
options
- Putin and Merkel back Nord Stream pipeline
- Shell and Frontier team up to build drillships
- INA to join Adria LNG consortium with a 14 % stake
- Petroceltic buys BG's Italian assets
- Newly formed GdF Suez outlines 2008-10 spending plans
- Husky and Esso win stake in Greenland acreage
- E.ON and Statkraft announce multi-billion euro asset swap
- Urals gets Transneft’s approval for tie-in into ESPO pipeline
- More companies join hunt for oil and gas offshore Greenland
- BP's CEO announces big changes
- First substantial European refinery in decades planned for UK
- Galp and PdVSA to explore LNG and storage opportunities
- Pertra and NOIL
merge to form second-largest Norwegian operator
- Gazprom links investment in Serbian gas sector with NIS privatization
- Snoehvit LNG on track for regular output this year
- MOL and QPI agree to pursue business opportunities
- Siemens wins Balearic-Spanish mainland connection contract
- Hungary Parliament approves new legislation to protect MOL
- Iran's reserves are too attractive for the French to give up
- Facts about the Ormen Lange gas field
- Gaz de France-Suez merger creates one of largest global energy firms
- Italy suspends BG's Brindisi LNG project
- GdF becomes largest private player in Romania's gas storage
- Total sells 10 % interest in Interconnector (UK)
- SOCAR
possible new partner in Nabucco Pipeline
- Total believes thirsty West can't blacklist producers on geopolitical grounds
- Statkraft to build world's first osmotic power plant
- EU threatens Hungary over law to protect MOL
- Petrom sets up power business unit
- EdF plans ambitious renewable energy investments
- The Netherlands sue Shell over 2004 leak
- E.ON Ruhrgas to lead Croatian LNG terminal consortium
- Endesa to quit Portuguese energy market
- ENI’s LNG terminal expansion blocked by Liguria region
- Scottish & Southern Energy to reward UK consumers for energy efficiency
- Venezuela to supply 30 % of Portugal’s oil
- Sibir scraps stake sale to Gazprom
- StatoilHydro makes its debut
- BP has started search for new chairman
- Norway pleased about response to awards round
- Nuon and Essent face new hurdles after failed merger
- Hungarian green energy firm Agrener completes bio-gas plant
- Building Poland’s energy security
- Talisman Energy announces first oil from North Sea field
- Greek Cyprus receives bids for offshore licenses
- Norway finds oil market quite well balanced
- Northern Petroleum wins two licenses in southern Adriatic Sea
- Norsk Hydro signs new deal for UK heavy oil exploration
- Italy faces winter blackouts
- State could raise mining royalty if MOL is sold
- RWE Dea
steps up natural gas production
- Rompetrol to build oil storage site in Bulgaria
- Statoil stops oil development work at Snoehvit
- Serbian NIS seeks strategic partner
- OMV persists in push for MOL
- Russian companies show investing interest in Serbia’s energy sector
- Police start probe into North Sea rescue vessel incident
- Statoil awards Gjoa Umbilicals contract to Aker Kvaerner
- AMEC Paragon wins contract for Turkish Black Sea gas project
- Statoil starts LNG production from Hammerfest LNG plant
- BP Norge lets contract for Skarv field in Norwegian Sea
- Groups led by ExxonMobil and Dong to get licensing for Greenland
- Talisman Energy produces first oil from Duart field
in North Sea
- Stratic Energy and partners flow first gas from Turkish field
- British energy minister lends support to Turkey on Iran gas deal
- Europe drops energy curtain
- Linde forms Global Alliance with SBM
- Estonia refuses geological exploration for Nord Stream project
- OMV plans Azeri gas for Nabucco pipeline
- What Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom already owns elsewhere in Europe
- Statoil to buy 274 gasoline stations from ConocoPhillips in Scandinavia
- E.ON and Turcas to build gas and coal power plants in Turkey
- Hungary's about-turn helps put Nabucco pipeline back on agenda
- Saipem signs LOI for Nord Stream work
- Local firm to launch bioethanol projects in
Hungary
- E.ON to launch major capacity expansion in Hungary
- French government advises firms to avoid Iran
- Spain wants a piece of Baltic LNG
- MOL is the most efficient upstream oil and gas company in Europe
- LUKoil targets Europe
- Gaz de France wants role in Nabucco pipeline project
- E.ON develops battery to store green power
- Indian companies eye Nabucco oil pipeline
- Norway's Ormen Lange gas field starts production
- LUKoil earmarks $ 9 bn for European downstream operations
- PetroHungaria and MOL to redevelop Bajcsa gas field
- Shell to start supplying Ormen Lange gas to UK in October
- Total CEO says there's not enough world capacity to
meet oil demand
- Petroceltic acquires Italian drilling permit
- US and Norwegian firms to get Shtokman gas project stakes
- DNV proposes study for Arctic pipeline standards
- Shell has no current plans to sell out of the Brent field
- Rompetrol-KazMunaiGaz deal causes much discussion
- Sinopec and MOL in talks on upstream cooperation
- GdF and Suez agree on energy merger
- INA and MOL expand co-operation
- Cairn shifts focus with trio of deals
- The makers and breakers on Romania’s energy market
- Hungary’s MOL signs MoU with Czech CEZ to build power plants
- EU considers studies how to split up energy firms
- E.ON to build wind park off UK
coast
- Statoil to buy stake in Baltic biodiesel plant
- Gaz de France plans LNG terminal offshore Italy
- BP completes CATS pipeline system repair
- Battle to beat global warming brings mega profits to EU power firms
- Statoil taps first gas from Snoehvit field in the Arctic
- Wintershall to invest in North Sea oil and gas extraction
- OMV closes acquisition of exploration licence offshore Ireland
- LUKoil and Germany agree on crude shipments
- Poland demands second ecological assessment of Nord Stream
- KazMunaiGaz and Rompetrol Holding sign share purchase deal
- GdF to develop UK natural gas storage facility
- IPIC and Turkmen Gas to boost cooperation
- RWE and EOS sign 10-year power exchange agreement
- Aker Kvaerner and Statoil sign frame agreement
- MOL repurchases own shares back to 40 % control
- Nord Stream announces adjustments in route for pipeline
- Hammerfest LNG plant receives first gas from Snoehvit
- Mohave wins five new exploration licenses in Portugal
- Petrom to franchise all petrol stations by yearend
- Cyprus is disappointed with CNOOC not bidding for exploration rights
- OMV to upgrade European refineries
- Gazprom raises estimated cost of Nord Stream gas pipeline
- Foreign investors interested in Albanian oil
- ExxonMobil and Shell to sell German natural gas network operator
- Turkish
delegation visits Iran to finalise natural gas deal
- Shtokman: How oil majors can thrive in an age of state monopolies
- LUKoil Romania to invest EUR 14.7 mm in petrol stations upgrade
- Hungary in energy battle with Russian overtones
- Algeria aims to tap vast sunbelt to export solar energy to Europe
- Italy moves to suspend permit for BG's Brindisi LNG plant
- Aker Kvaerner and Venture in innovative subsea deal
- Bord Gais appoints consortium to build electric power plant
- EIB to loan EUR 85 mm for Fluxys LNG gas terminal
- Swiss Manas Petroleum to explore for oil in Albania
- E.ON receives approval for Spanish acquisitions
- E.ON to launch power plant construction in Hungary
- Spanish Bilbao LNG import terminal plans EUR 165 mm expansion
- Iran, Austria and Turkey to structure PetroPars-Ofisi-OMV consortium
- MOL to acquire Croatian retail network
- Russian gas finds a new way to Europe
- E.ON believes Germany still lacks comprehensive energy strategy
- Idemitsu announces development plan for Norwegian field
- Gazprom completes purchase of British-based gas shipper
- Sonatrach bows to EU pressure to open up gas supply contracts
- Shannon Development confirms plans for Irish gas terminal
- Spain makes space for gas storage
- UAE’s IPIC eyes bigger stake in OMV
- Talisman installs second Beatrice wind turbine
- UK's Central Area
Transmission System repairs to take weeks
- Mediterranean oil search attracts huge international interest
- MOL to purchase Tifon retail network in Croatia
- Shell sells Norwegian assets to E.ON
- Shell agrees to sell three French refineries
- E.ON plans EUR 3 bn renewables investment by 2010
- MOL buys Italian downstream company
- Agreement signed to speed development of IGI pipeline
- EU launches anti-trust probe against E.ON and Gaz de France
- Aurelian wins three concessions in Poland
- BG Group faces North Sea pipeline charge
- Norway plans small LNG plant near Stavanger
- MOL voices concerns over adequate supply of Nabucco gas pipeline
- EU
clears ENI’s acquisitions of Esso retail operations
- Statoil invests in wind energy
- Global Green One to build bio-ethanol plant in Hungary
- Gaz de France signs UK supply deal with Norsk Hydro
- Hungary and Croatia sign power line deal
- Bulgargaz and OMV in Black Sea shelf drilling deal
- Bulgaria calls six energy companies for plant bid
- Norwegian firms join forces for LNG supply chain
- Gazprombank plans British unit
- Vinci and partners to build gas terminal in the Netherlands
- Virgin Fuels and Boeing to create commercial jet biofuels
- Total lists Korean contenders to build vessel for Angolan development
- Croatia gives approval for sale of INA stake
- RWE eyes slice in Nabucco pipeline
- E.ON to build 25 MW biomass power station at Sheffield, UK
- DNO unit spuds exploration well in North Sea
- Swedish company hopes to find oil in Baltic Sea
- Gazprom's EU ties stumble on reciprocity
- MOL looks for protection from Russia
- OMV says advances made at MOL are not meant as takeover bid
- MOL rebuffs “hostile” approach from OMV
- France and Gazprom deny secret energy deal
- Centrica ends LNG supply deal with Petronas
- MOL continues to reject OMV's advances
- MOL buys oil from Syria
- Fire at nuclear plant in Germany reignites debate
- Chevron and KazMunaiGaz eye
Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline stake
- Russia's new oil pipeline to cut supply to Central Europe
- New twists and turns in German-Russian gas pipeline saga
- North Sea oil production cut by pipeline closure
- Austria supports NIOC-OMV gas deal
- Russia plans to inspire rivals
- Enel buys 90 % stake in Sicilian LNG terminal
- Statoil chief sees strategic alliances with state-owned oil companies
- Kazakhstan to take part in INA privatization
- Statoil-Hydro merger approved
- BP Shipping takes delivery of world's largest LNG carrier
- Shah Deniz gas is now flowing to Turkey
- Dana begins production at Cavendish gas field
- UK has vacant slot at LNG
import terminal
- Total to build two new units at UK refinery
- Petrobras and Galp Energia in biofuel pact
- Hess extends Wood Group contract for Triton FPSO
- Shell starts natural gas marketing in Hungary
- BP confirms EUR 3.75 bn Norwegian Sea oil and gas development plan
- INA buys Hungarian Rotary Drilling company
- Gasunie likely to join Nord Stream project
- Statoil and Shell scrap carbon capture plans to pump more oil
- Turkey approves OMV's bid to build Ceyhan refinery
- Gaz de France plans major expansions to meet demand growth
- Petrom's oil and gas reserves are worth EUR 7.1 bn
- Gazprom to dominate EU spot contracts
- Shell to boost
biofuels research and development investments
- BP to add gas compression facilities at North Sea terminal
- E.ON announces new generation capacity plans
- RWE to develop LNG import facility in Germany
- Gazprom Neft says pipeline bypassing Bosporus to cost EUR 872 mm
- Sonatrach’s marketing restrictions could endanger pipeline to Spain
- Siemens and Hydro to co-operate on floating wind turbine project
- Gazprom is welcome to pipe gas through Nabucco
- EdF and RasGas sign LNG supply deal
- BP, ABF and DuPont partner to make wheat fuel in UK
- Northern Petroleum wins licenses offshore Italy
- E.ON and Alstom to test 90 % carbon removal from flue gas technology
- ENI publishes its
seventh World Oil and Gas Review
- High hopes and hard truths dictate the future
- Gazprom and ENI announce plan for new Black Sea-Europe pipeline
- Aker Kvaerner sells stakes to government and Wallenberg company
- DNV seeks industry input for CO2 standards
- Alstom and Statoil to develop CO2 capture project in Norway
- LUKoil may acquire Bulgaria's Petrol
- Sonatrach and Bergesen launch new LNG carrier at Daewoo Shipyard
- Petrom to invest EUR 500 mm in gas-fired plant
- France's EdF to invest EUR 900 m in gas fired power stations
- Unipetrol reports 26 % increase in fuel retail sales
- EU threatens to exclude Gazprom from Nord Stream project
- Norwegian Parliament approves
plans for Statoil’s Gjoa field
- Statoil and Odfjell to develop new subsea technology
- AP Moeller Maersk reports on North Sea oil and gas output
- Shell's shock sell-off from North Sea operations
- Cyprus president’s law firm involved in LNG floating unit deal?
- Gazprom-BASF joint venture to invest in European gas projects
- EnBW and 4Gas in strategic partnership for Rotterdam terminal
- Enel buys 67 % stake in Romanian power distributor
- RWE to publish power generation details online to improve transparency
- BP issues annual survey of world energy use in 2006
- Baltic states not interested in Nord-Stream
- StatoilHydro looking to form partnerships with Russia
- PGNiG joins
Skanled Consortium
- National Grid lays pipeline as protesters are evicted
- Indian food-to-fuel gas entry wins British sustainable energy award
- More oil firms join Statoil's Mongstad carbon test centre
- E.ON Ruhrgas participates in new European Skanled gas pipeline
- Gazprom wants to take over pipeline operator EuRoPol Gaz
- MOL starts exploitation of 1.1 mm tons of gas and oil
- Statoil expects to resume gas output from Troll platform
- E.ON Ruhrgas to participate in Le Havre LNG terminal
- Serbia sets sights on NIS sale
- Nabucco may not be possible without Russia
- Gazprom Neft and Statoil discuss joint ventures
- Eastern Echo to build four 10-streamer seismic
vessels
- Leni announces seismic start-up offshore Malta
- Nord Stream requests Estonia's permission to explore Baltic seabed
- Northern Offshore builds jack-up fleet
- OMV's Romanian refinery unit signs deal to continue production
- EdP to build new gas turbine plant in Portugal
- Ukrainian-owned gas provider to build Hungary's biggest power plant
- Swiss energy group EGL completes Iran-Europe gas deal
- RWE Power to invest EUR 100 mm in Polish wind farms
- Norway awards 10 offshore production licenses
- Gaz de France intends to sell Azeri gas in Italy and Romania
- Finland plans new subsea gas link
- PGNiG and Denmark in Baltic pipeline deal
- Statoil brings Snoehvit subsea systems on stream
- Russian Rahimkulov family companies increase stake in MOL
- EdF to build Belgium's first offshore wind farm
- Hitachi to build power plants for Electrabel
- Three petroleum firms form alliance in bid for Bonus in Montenegro
- INA and MOL to invest EUR 100 mm in modernisation of fuel stations
- Petrom to invest EUR 1 bn in modernisation of refineries
- MOL decides on investment
- Gazprom completes first section of gas facility in Austria
- Norsk Hydro extends contracts for semi-submersible rigs
- Russia’s cooperation with OMV could endanger Nabucco
- Spain authorises Sonatrach’s voting rights for Medgaz stake
- MOL announces upgrades to Duna refinery
- Russia to sell gas directly to Turkey
- Gazprom and OMV to create Europe's largest gas hub in Austria
- Europe's energy giants call for business as usual with Russia
- RWE plans new pipeline to connect Czechia to Baltic Sea
- ENI raises stake in Czech refinery
- Electricity link to be constructed between the Netherlands and UK
- MOL eyes expansion along “Friendship” gas pipeline
- Falcon to develop gas accumulation in south-eastern Hungary
- Saipem set to construct Italian LNG terminal
- EdF receives authorization to sell natural gas in Spain
- Australia’s Po Valley Energy to expand European business
- World's largest
offshore wind farm planned for UK coast
- Fortum to build Finnish power plant
- MOL teams up with ExxonMobil
- Petrobras to explore deepwater oil and gas fields in Portugal
- Statoil signs steel piping deal
- Galp Energia and Petrobras to explore off Portuguese coast
- France's Suez to take stake in Spanish Gas Natural
- National Grid receives approval for key Welsh gas pipeline site
- Heerema to invest in new deepwater construction vessel
- ScottishPower and Statoil join to develop tidal technology
- Rio Tinto and BP join forces to develop clean energy worldwide
- Aker Exploration seeks license operator status
- Honeywell partners with MOL Group
- Czech oil tycoon Komarek buys stake in Polish PKN-unit
- Romania to participate in transportation of Caspian oil
- Seabird to conduct survey offshore Malta
- Greek Cypriots are disturbed by TPAO's exploration in Mediterranean
- Gazprom could send gas through Nabucco pipeline
- Chief executive of National Grid wants utilities to sell less power
- Talisman opens taps of North Sea Tweedsmuir field
- MOL squeezes Plinacro out of Croatian LNG project
- Statoil finishes pipeline between Statfjord field and UK North Sea sector
- Statoil confirms life of its Statfjord field to be extended to 2020
- INA-MOL consortium invests in Bosnian fuel retailer
- Romania’s Petrom to invest over EUR 1 bn in
2007
- Denmark and Poland considering gas pipeline
- Wingas to buy Norsk Hydro's venture stake
- Dong Energy to go ahead with 200 MW Horns Rev II wind project
- Heerema invests in ultra-deep water construction vessel for Arctic
- MOL eyes further buyouts in Serbia
- Shtokman project threatened by icebergs
- Petronas interested in LNG infrastructure project in the Netherlands
- Lloyd's Register wins Medgaz contract
- LUKoil Romania to sell aviation fuel
- Shell plans LNG terminal at France’s Fos-sur-Mer
- ENI to acquire ExxonMobil petrol stations in Eastern Europe
- Statoil and CNPC in talks to swap oil and gas assets
- Enel makes best offer to build
Greek power plant
- Halliburton to acquire entire share capital of PSL
- Petronas and Gasunie consider gas infrastructure partnership
- Statoil to deliver first cargoes from Snoehvit late summer
- TAPCO lays first stone of Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline
- Iberdrola and ScottishPower merger takes effect
- EnCore Oil buys interests offshore Ireland and the Netherlands
- Calik and ENI seeking additional partners for TAPCO
- Statoil to double production from Glitne oil field
- E.ON ready to deliver electricity to Bulgaria
- Future of Polish-Russian pipeline firm in doubt
- Mercuria to invest in Amsterdam biodiesel plant
- EBRD buys shares in Romanian energy companies
- EWE acquires 39.9 % stake in Turkish natural gas supplier Bursagaz
- Germany reigns in solar energy
- Talisman Energy begins production in Norway
- Gazprom finds new entry into Britain’s market
- EU clears Statoil to take over Hydro's oil and gas unit
- PGNiG shareholders approve Norwegian Sea acquisitions
- Iran and Austria sign agreement on LNG sale to Europe
- Russian-Bulgarian-Greek pipeline project company to be set up
- Statoil announces doubling of reserves at small Glitne field
- UK gas price weakness likely to continue until decade-end
- Russian shareholder pledges equal access to Balkan oil pipeline
- Powerfuel plans coal-fired plant in Yorkshire
- Fortum to build EUR 60 mm biofuel-based CHP plant
- Island Oil and OMV sign asset swap pact
- Electricite de France starts trading gas on Powernext exchange
- Endesa and Iberdrola to undertake joint energy auctions
- Iranian LNG considered vital for future European gas supply
- Gazprom to enter UK natural gas consumer market
- Disputed German-Russian gas pipeline heads for Estonia
- Gazprom to build steam-gas unit in Germany
- OMV to modernize Austria's oil and gas production
- Statoil plans environmental upgrades at Mongstad refinery
- Gazprom to open underground gas storage in Austria
- Turkey denies suspending talks with GdF over Nabucco
- INA-MOL
Consortium acquire 67 % of Croatia’s Energopetrol
- Baltic Sea pipeline consortium considers alternate routes
- INA to sign credit deal for Croatian projects
- Pipeline company to conduct more studies for Baltic gas pipeline
- French and Turkish elections stall Nabucco pipeline plans
- Hungarian government bill to set exemptions on gas pipeline fees
- Gazprom and Romania's Conef Energy sign 20-year gas supply deal
- Romania reports on 2006 gas consumption
- Oil Terminal signs deals with Rompetrol Refinery and Petrotel LUKoil
- Saipem wins $ 1 bn worth of contracts
- Yukos assets to enhance Italy's energy security
- Hungary balances strategic pipelines
- EdP and Sonatrach form
power generation and gas joint venture
- ERG outlines energy investment plan
- Statoil’s Troll gas field back at full production
- UK court halts National Grid's work on Welsh pipeline
- Shell’s 2006 reserves figures show shift from oil to gas
- Norwegian Oceanteam and Swiss ABB team up for subsea market
- Northern Petroleum wins exploration licence onshore The Netherlands
- Turkey to tender oil exploration licenses in April
- Belgium receives first Qatari LNG
- E.ON UK to construct combined heat and power station
- Largest energy company in Hungary takes practical approach to Russia
- Total announces launch of development at Jura field
- PKN Orlen plans to win neighbouring fuel
markets
- Statoil developing underwater pipeline repair robot
- BTC pipeline to pump $ 1 bn into Turkish coffers
- France grants Europa Oil & Gas license to explore Aquitaine Basin for gas
- Wintershall pledges $ 4.7 bn investments to Gazprom
- EU is looking towards Central Asia
- Wintershall to boost its oil and gas production
- INA eyes oil stations in Montenegro
- Turkish firms and Shell set up Iraq gas joint venture
- BP has plans for Valhall field off Norway
- Chief executive of Total suspected of Iranian bribe scandal
- Transneft to operate Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline
- DONG Energy to buy ConocoPhillips's Danish assets
- National Grid to
speed up UK pipeline construction work
- Hungary hints at cooperation with Gazprom and Nabucco pipelines
- Cyprus believes Turkey can’t disturb oil license bids
- Cameron acquires subsea technology provider
- Lundin to create new company from Norwegian and British units
- Gazprom to begin trading German electricity
- Libya raises gas exports to Italy
- Mitsui and J-Power to build wind power project in northern Poland
- LUKoil to borrow $ 600 mm for update of Bulgarian refinery
- Aker earns $ 475.5 mm from stake sale
- Croatian oil company to claim assets in Kosovo
- Spain's Acciona Energiy to spend EUR 7.4 bn on renewable energy
- Fourteen years on, Balkan pipeline goes
ahead
- Chevron willing to link Burgas-Alexandroupolis with Caspian Pipeline
- E.ON Electrica Moldova finds energy market non-transparent
- TPAO to open oil exploration tenders for Mediterranean
- Trans-Balkan pipeline to pump Black Sea oil
- Iranian LNG considered vital for future of European gas supply
- Baran Group to renovate eastern European oil refinery
- Gazprom finalizes deal with ENI and Enel
- Bulgargaz holds negotiations with GdF on Nabucco pipeline
- Gazprom permits Shell to supply gas to Turkish market
- Apache to explore for oil and gas in Bulgaria
- Total unit to invest around EUR 400 mm in gas transport infrastructure
- Gassco assesses gas pipeline routes to
Europe
- Statoil sees bigger market in Europe for new pipeline than UK
- Firms discuss transportation of Turkmen gas to Europe through Azerbaijan
- Gazprom to send gas from Algeria to southern Europe
- Europe to have gas oversupply in the next five years
- Gas Natural to take 10 % stake in Medgaz
- Statoil gets permission to drill at Norne field
- Growing costs put Shetland oilfield plans in jeopardy
- Talks to win sixth investor add to Nabucco delays
- Total’s LNG schemes sheltered from surging building costs
- Repsol joins BP and Shell in cutting production forecasts
- Norway to upgrade gas terminal to increase exports to Germany
- Orlen to focus on buying oil fields, not
refiners
- Austrian Petromax to build $ 170 mm oil refinery in Bulgaria
- INA eyes oil search in Montenegro
- Croatian JANAF to upgrade its refineries
- Ormen Lange pipeline to be tested with Sleipner gas
- LUKoil to expand in Poland
- Gazprom eyes stake in Portuguese firm
- MOL to start refining in Russia, CIS and Turkey
- Endesa acquires 275 MW interconnection capacity in France/Italy tender
- Turkey finishes laying Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline
- Renova to spend $ 1 bn on wind, sun and biological energy projects
- E.ON to buy LNG from Iran
- World Bank invests in Kosovo thermal plant
- LUKoil won’t construct refinery in Turkey
- Nord Stream prepared to change Baltic pipeline alignment
- Nabucco cannot be accomplished without EU member states’ support
- Italy awards three licenses to Northern Petroleum
- PGNiG buys 15 % stake in Norwegian Sea gas fields from ExxonMobil
- Enel buys 9.99 % stake of Endesa
- Gazprom and Shell sign contract on gas deliveries to Turkey until 2021
- IOC gets 12,5 % stake in TAPCO pipeline
- Bosnia and Herzegovina’s oil industry goes private
- Poland and Kazakhstan seek to revive Odessa-Brody oil pipeline
- MOL’s gas transmission unit proposes building new pipeline
- The time is right for the majors to seek bigger fish
- Gazprom has no interest in Nabucco pipeline
- Endesa and Elecnor to build marine wind farms in Spain
- BG Group to boost E&P spending 5-7 %/year
- International oil firms show interest in Cyprus’ oil and gas exploration
- LUKoil to pay $ 400 mm for ConocoPhillips’ European gas stations
- Gazprom attacks EU stance on competition in European energy market
- Venezuela to fuel London’s buses in exchange for urban planning advice
- Total reports 102 % proved reserves replacement in 2006
- Baltic pipeline faces up to a minefield of problems
- Reliance seeking for strategic partnership with European companies
- OMV warns that steel shortage may delay Nabucco pipeline
- Proposal for gas storage in the salt caverns of Dorset
- Algeria and
Italy sign natural gas deals
- Endesa gives E.ON green light for EUR 41 bn bid
- UKCS oil and gas production down by 9 % in 2006
- Foreign firms eye Bulgaria’s stake in Burgas-Alexandroupolis project
- Gazprom to supply gas to Yara plant in France
- UK approves National Grid’s pipeline construction plan
- LUKoil presents 2007 plans for Montenegro
- RWE to build $ 1.6 bn gas fired power plant in UK
- Gazprom to raise gas price for Slovakia
- Turkish oil exploration area may overlap with Cyprus
- Enel agrees to supply contract for extra 1 bn cm of gas from Algeria
- Indian Oil in talks with Turkey's TAPCO
- Russia may end oil supplies to Europe via land pipeline
- Albania’s KESH signs deal with Italy's Maire Engineering
- Romanian 2006 energy imports rise 3.1 % as production declines
- Statoil to cut CO2-emissions at Gjoea Field
- LUKoil to take part in Montenegro’s energy privatization
- Essent and Nuon see problems in energy merger
- Total launches CO2 capture project
- NAM starts commercial gas production from Wadden Sea
- Schroeder says Baltic Pipeline to be built on time
- Statoil and partners reconsider oil output at Snoehvit gas field
- Poland doubts availability of oil for start-up of Odessa-Brody pipeline
- Gazprom-led venture expects agreement on stake sale to Gasunie
- Petrom sells its stake in M-I Petrogas Services
- Blue Stream-2 feasibility study to be ready by July
- Oman Oil to invest in Bulgarian nuclear power plant and pipeline
- Hungarian E.ON Foldgaz Trade reviewing gas import contracts
- Dutch consortium develops hydrogen boat
- Gazprom and Romgaz to hold talks about warehouse project
- Russia grabs lion's share in Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project
- RWE plans gas pipeline between Czech Republic and Belgium
- Gaz de France interested in Nabucco pipeline
- Portugal and Australia to look for oil along Portuguese coastline
- Two largest Dutch energy companies in merger
- Spain to protect its internal gas market from invasions
- LUKoil eyeing gas stations in Baltics
- Abu Dhabi firm to build LNG installation in North Sea
- BP awards green fuel research $ 500 mm
- Iran to start gas exports to Austria and Switzerland in 2012
- UK awards 150 licenses in 24th licensing round
- Gazprom’s pipeline plan gives Swedes the jitters
- Gas Natural drops bid for Endesa
- Petroplus buys Coryton refinery from BP for $ 1.4 bn
- Gassco and partners to enter new gas pipeline project
- Norway awards 48 licenses for mature areas on NCS
- Gazprom remains only gas supplier to Poland
- Romgaz and Gazprom to negotiate on direct gas imports
- Mol unlikely to claim damages for start-of-year crude delivery disruption
- PKN Orlen strikes oil supply
deal with Rosneft
- Marathon gets Norway’s approval for Volund field
- Turkey in talks with Iran and OMV on energy trade cooperation
- Polish PM sacks PKN Orlen chief
- Enel to invest $ 1.9 bn in Romanian energy sector
- Statoil believes Snoehvit oil development is unviable
- Poland looks to Algerian gas as alternative to Russian supplies
- Croatia plans pipeline construction to Dubrovnik
- CNWL wants to search for oil and gas off Spain’s Almeria
- Protest delays construction work on key UK gas pipeline
- Court removes legal obstacles to Endesa bid
- Iberdrola one step nearer to ScottishPower control
- Statoil submits development plan for Alve field
- Maersk to sell oil and gas exploration licenses in North Sea
- Tony Hayward ready to take over BP after Lord Browne
- ABB delivers power plant in Poland
- German chancellor calls for European gas pipeline network
- RIL orders production systems with Norway's Aker group
- Azerbaijan keen on gas transportation to European markets
- Portugal's Galp to upgrade its refining system
- Portugal and Algeria sign energy deal
- Gazprom warns Europe against Enron-style market reform
- Russia will not oppose Baltic link to Poland
- EU and Spain in energy standoff
- Shell considers new route for Corrib pipeline
- Turkish natural gas demand may face serious shortages after
2010
- Resistance builds up against Welsh gas pipeline
- Energy crisis forces power cuts in Albania
- Icelandic firm to invest $ 1 bn in global geothermal energy
- Statoil-Hydro merger demands tougher pollution controls
- Gazprom eyes European growth
- Lord Browne's career at BP
- BP's chief Lord Browne to stand down in July
- EU says Europeans get bad deal from gas and electricity suppliers
- Technip wins hydrogen plant contract from PKN Orlen
- Nexen achieves first oil from Buzzard field
- Russia increases gas exports to Turkey
- Renewable energy sector turns a corner
- Spanish power investment soars
- PKN Orlen may buy
crude oil from Middle East
- Watchdog will not investigate Iberdrola’s merger with Scottish Power
- North Sea energy upstarts teach an old dog new tricks
- Medgaz to start building Algerian gas pipeline
- Sabanci becomes strategic partner with Verbund
- Finland blocks undersea cable plans
- Gazprom gains access to French consumers
- Serbia and Gazprom sign deal to build gas pipeline
- Gazprom makes advance payment to Gaz de France
- UK plans to develop remaining oil and gas reserves in Shetland
- Hydro submits development plans for Vega fields
- Bulgarian gas price to rise gradually
- Norsk Hydro to merge oil and gas operations with Statoil
- UK
government gives consent to build two offshore wind projects
- Enel invests EUR 4 bn in CO2 reduction methods
- Norway's national oil champion
- Rotterdam grants permit for LNG terminal
- PKN Orlen becomes owner of Lithuania’s Mazeikiu Nafta
- Statoil and Norsk Hydro present plant for North Sea oil and gas fields
- BOTAS concerned about permission for natural gas import
- Italy’s antitrust authority approves Gazprom-ENI deal
- Total to cut gas flaring in half by 2012
- E.ON to invest over EUR 25 bn through 2009
- E&P firms compete to drill 180 UK Continental Shelf wells
- ENI may spend EUR 1 bn on Italian LNG plant
- Libya and Norway review oil and gas ties
- Heerema to buy AGA Engineering
- E.ON to streamline pipeline system
- LUKoil to acquire ConocoPhillips' European gas stations
- GdF signs 20-year gas supply contract with Sonatrach
- Norsk Hydro cuts 2010 oil and gas output target by 6.7 %
- IOC acquires 12.5 % stake in TAPCO
- Hungary sells government stake in MOL
- E.ON builds CCGT plant in Hungary
- Greece and Italy seek to broaden energy cooperation
- PKN Orlen to conclude acquisition of Mazeikiu
- Enel sets up projects in Turkey
- TAQA to acquire BP’s Dutch E&P business
- Gazprom deputy CEO lashes out at EU energy reform
- BP relinquishes stake in Medgaz project
- EU sees need to split up energy companies' control over supply chain
- Serbia invites firms to bid for pipeline infrastructure
- Neste Oil to build second biodiesel plant in Finland
- Atomstroiexport wins $ 5 bn nuclear plant contract in Bulgaria
- Gazprom intends to enter Greek electricity market
- Syria wants Iranian gas via Turkey
- Gazpromenergo to light Europe
- Heerema believes these are great times for heavy lift industry
- Russia confirms energy cooperation with Norway
- Iberdrola to buy Scottish Power
- Heerema launches plan to build new deep-water crane vessel
- Norway may construct power line to Russia
- OMV to invest in Turkey’s natural gas
market
- Gas firm confirms pipeline plan under Irish Sea
- Irish company Island Oil & Gas wins Dutch exploration licence
- RWE plans two coal-fired plants
- MOL wins strategic gas reserve tender
- Oil companies to contribute to social aid funds in Romania
- Twelve firms advance in Greenland licensing
- Ideological disputes over reliability of Moscow may mask a larger truth
- Albanian and Israeli gas markets spark Gazprom's interest
- Delek bids for Chevron’s European gas stations
- Sweden's Nord Stream pipeline dilemma
- Petrom's privatisation contract to be published
- Europe turns to Russia and others to secure energy supply
- PGNiG signs new gas
deal with RosUkrEnergo
- Statoil’s Luva gas discovery may play role in pipeline plans
- Norway’s Petoro finds maintenance of oil and gas output tough
- OMV concludes expansion on Trans Austria Gas pipeline
- ENI announces long-awaited gas deal with Gazprom
- Serbia and Russia to sign gas pipeline construction deal
- Norsk Hydro starts oil and gas output from Troll Fram Oest
- TNK-BP will not take part in Burgas-Alexandropoulos oil pipeline
- Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Transneft to control 51 % of pipeline
- Transneft prepares interstate deal on Balkan pipeline
- The ongoing battle for Spain’s Endesa energy company
- Austria's OMV to invest in Bavaria
- Russian ships to take part
in North European pipeline construction
- Gazprom to study pipeline crossing Turkey
- Total mulls gas options west of the Shetlands
- Norway’s oil licensing round results delayed to January
- RIL bids for BP's Belgium refinery
- Gazprom to acquire shares in Italian Snam Rete Gas
- Old world blackouts
- RWE hires Fugro for Malta survey
- Gazprom's ambitions in the UK
- Bulgaria wants link to gas pipeline between Azerbaijan and Europe
- ENI and Gazprom to prolong gas supply contract
- IOC may take part in Samsun-Ceyhan project
- Aurelian signs drilling contracts in Poland and Bulgaria
- Gazprom hopes to supply the UK with 12 bn cmpy by 2012
- Kuwait cancels Rotterdam refinery sale
- Russia, Greece and Bulgaria close to signing oil pipeline agreement
- Poland looking to diversify its energy sources
- Britain is about to make biggest upgrade of its electricity grid
- Moldova opens Danube oil terminal
- INA plans return to Serbia
- RWE extracts 10 bn cm from Voelkersen gas field
- BP warns that boom times for oil are over
- EnCore to acquire four companies with UK blocks
- Turkey-Greece pipeline to be completed late 2006
- Gazprom to sign gas supply deals with UK unit and GdF
- Gazprom strengthens its presence in Europe
- Grove Energy wins three exploration licenses in Dutch North Sea
- Statoil sees increase of 10 mm bbl oil from Norne field
- IOC plans $ 6 bn refinery in Turkish port of Ceyhan
- SNAM considers doubling regasification capacity
- Statoil does not find oil and gas in Brugdan license
- SOCAR ready to cooperate with Romanian oil and gas companies
- Statoil introduces new grade of oil from Norwegian Sea
- E.ON Ruhrgas says Russia alone decides source of gas exports
- SOCAR ready to cooperate with Romanian oil and gas companies
- EU warns Russia on treatment of foreign energy investors
- OMV to increase Petrom's production capacity to 6 mm tons
- OMV confirms Strategy 2010
- Generating power from kites
- Reliance and Chevron plan
fuel retail outlets in Eastern Europe and Africa
- Gazprom to take stake in Portuguese energy giant
- RosUkrEnergo halts supplies of Central Asian gas to Poland
- Finland eyes new pipeline to Baltics for gas security
- Serbia starts sell-off of NIS
- Russia not interested in Nabucco project
- Gazprom signs MoU with Gasunie
- EU makes Baltic Sea pipeline a priority
- Enel increases investment in Greek power company
- Enel to invest EUR 900 mm in Bulgaria
- OMV and Gazexport extend gas supply contracts until 2027
- France expected to approve privatization of Gaz de France
- Gazprom bypasses cartel laws in Austria
- LUKoil close to buying Kuwait
Petroleum’s Rotterdam refinery
- Petro-Canada achieves first oil at De Ruyter development
- Gazprom extends gas deals with Austria until 2027
- Pipeline blast in Iran cuts off gas to Turkey
- Statoil cuts production forecasts by 3 %
- Shell Ireland to modify route of pipeline
- Shell's interest in enhanced oil recovery grows
- Russian pipeline play poses dilemma for Turkey
- First gas enters UK gas grid from Langeled pipeline
- PKN Orlen and Mazeikiu Nafta to complete deal in November
- Shell CEO sees oil prices lower in the future
- Norwegian and Russian oil industries to meet in Barents Sea
- Russia may take part in Nabucco project
- Shell to take
part in Turkish oil pipeline
- British company searches for oil in Albania's seas
- LUKoil and Slovenian Petrol open gas stations in Bulgaria
- Vladimir Putin proposes that Europe give in to Gazprom
- Gazprom includes ENI in second Blue Flood project
- MOL Group seen as investor and consumer in Blue Stream pipeline
- Wales-UK gas grid pipeline on target for October 2007
- Royal Society tells ExxonMobil to stop funding climate change denial
- Russia guarantees oil and gas supplies to Hungary
- Mediterranean Oil completes production tests at Santa Caterina
- Gazprom boosts gas export to Turkey
- ENI and Calik sign Trans Anadolu Pipeline agreement
- Spain could modify some
conditions imposed on E.ON bid
- Centrica gives backing to clean energy fund
- Spain and Germany discuss E.ON take-over of Endesa
- Scottish Power and SSE discuss merger
- BP, Shell, E.ON and EdF commit to new UK energy institute
- Oil slick threatens beaches in Spain
- New Norway-UK pipeline may stem gas fears
- Norsk Hydro puts Ormen Lange gas pipelines in position
- French gas privatisation raises heat in France and EU
- Joint venture to study viability of Croatian LNG terminal
- Seven Russian challenges to the West's energy security
- Russia, Bulgaria and Greece agree to sign pipeline deal by year's end
- Gazprom secures favourable NEGP terms
- CGGto acquire Veritas for $ 3.1 bn
- EU is not negotiating with Spain on E.ON-Endesa terms
- New oil pipeline to bypass Turkish straits
- Total’s North Sea K5 gas field to begin production late 2007
- LUKoil to open gas-filling stations in Finland under its own trade mark
- Gazprom nurtures links with Germany and France
- Gazprom to sell natural gas to E.ON through 2036
- Polish Grupa Lotos prepares new strategy for oil sector
- Statoil pins its hopes on Snoehvit gas project and Cove Pont terminal
- LUKoil signs joint venture deal with Slovenia's Petrol
- North European pipeline project partners do not agree on financing
- Gazprom, BASF and E.ON sign final accord on building NEGP sea part
- Why Shell believes that oil will get cheaper
- BASF wants to spread Russia's gas
- UK watchdogs believe energy price cuts must go to customers
- Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project underway
- ENI approves deal between Russia and Ukraine
- Statoil to invest in Iranian Kharg region
- UK-Norway gas link to cost NOK 3.0 bn below budget
- Statoil to produce another 20 years on Gullfaks field
- Statoil announces furtherance of Gjoea development
- Norsk Hydro plans new gas developments in North Sea
- Iran and Norway discuss cooperation in oil field
- Italy needs up to five natural gas terminals
- Statoil and partners to evaluate oil feasibility at Snoehvit
field
- Pipeline explosion disrupts gas flow from Iran to Turkey
- Total increases ownership stake in Cepsa
- Gazprom bypasses UK’s competition law
- Turkey to seek oil in Iran
- PKN Orlen may decline to acquire Mazeikiu Nafta from Yukos
- Petrobras to explore oil in Black Sea’s deep waters
- New wave of North Sea oil firms is a different breed
- LUKoil interested in establishing oil refinery in Turkey
- Italy asks EU for protection against possible gas price collusion
- ENI to help Gazprom expand in Europe
- EU forces Spain to back down over energy merger
- EU to examine Spanish energy merger deal
- MOL and INA to buy 67 % of Bosnia's
Energopetrol
- UK reliance on Langeled pipeline gives false hope
- Shell to re-route Corrib pipeline around Rossport
- Gazprom to raise gas prices for Europe
- Russia resumes oil supplies to Europe after pipeline leak
- TNK-BP studies Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline design
- Nabucco pipeline project has competition
- Spain’s CNE approves E.ON-Endesa bid with conditions
- Millions of Brits face another big rise in energy bills
- Repsol-YPF to expand Portuguese oil complex
- Irish minister calls for positive response to Corrib report
- Serbia plans $ 800 mm gas project with Gazprom
- BP boosts solar cell efficiency
- Shell announces plans for oil and gas hub in
Aberdeen
- Gazprom moves to retain majority stake in pipeline
- Serbia finalizes privatization plans for national oil and gas company NIS
- KazMunaiGaz may buy into Latvian Ventspils Nafta
- Moldova and Gazprom to sign long-term gas contract
- Gazprom and BG plan to market gas in UK and US
- Vnesheconombank and Baltenergo join energy bridge project
- Statoil to deploy new technology at Asgard
- Enel gets licence to pipe natural gas to Britain
- Statoil gets approval for structure on Heidrun field
- UK approves Ettrick oil field development
- BP delivers Trinidad’s LNG cargo to Britain
- Hungary's MSZKSZ invites tender for gas storage facility
- Russiangas in exchange for Moldova’s power generation
- Russia and Italy discuss natural gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine
- Russia eyeing Central European assets
- MOL prepares Romanian expansion
- PKN Orlen and PGNiG to join forces in upstream operations
- Bosnia sells Energopetrol to MOL-INA team
- IOC and Turkey’s Calik join up for petrochemical project
- Statoil and partners invests in Sleipner West field
- LUKoil to build refinery in Turkey
- Saipem wins maintenance contract for ENI plants
- Caspian gas may flow to Europe
- Kazakhstan expresses interest in Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline
- Caspian gas may flow to Europe
- Norway’s Fugro expands
fleet
- Statoil gets approval for combined heat and power station
- Spain clears construction of European gas link to Algerian fields
- Gazprom, E.ON and BASF set to enter NEGP project
- Russia’s demands may slow down Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline
- Norsk Hydro cuts 2006 oil and gas production targets
- Norwegian energy firm wants to build CO2-capturing power plant
- Gazprom may claim control of ENI assets
- Statoil awards new shipping contract to Eidesvik
- Gazprom CEO and Belgian Prince discuss gas supplies
- LUKoil looks to buy British and Dutch oil refineries
- EU sues Italy on golden shares in privatized companies
- Italian industry minister prefers coal in energy
mix
- Statoil expects Norne field to produce longer than thought
- Balkan nations join Nabucco pipeline project
- Bulgaria may be left out of Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project
- EU supports new Caspian gas pipeline bypassing Russia
- Wintershall wins exploration licenses in Danish North Sea
- Petrobras and Galp Energia to jointly explore oil in Portugal
- Statoil takes charge of system for Hammerfest LNG plant
- ENI believes Gazprom is acting logically
- BP expects high oil prices to persist till end of decade
- OMV creates company for future energy
- Europe's gas import dependence to increase
- French eye Nabucco project and IGDAS tender
- Centrica to build new gas plant in Britain
- Statoil to increase production in Norway
- Gazprom warns Europe to be prepared to pay more for Russian gas
- BP says world energy growth slowed to 2.7 % in 2005
- LUKoil to resume investment program in Macedonia
- Gas Natural to build power plant in Malaga
- BP to finance major research on biofuels
- Enel in talks with Gazprom to increase gas deliveries
- SABIC suspends building of Dutch naphtha cracker
- SK Corp to develop four UK North Sea oil blocks
- Iraq stops oil shipments to Turkish port of Ceyhan
- Gazprom to approach Italian market via Hungary
- North Sea fields to be combined subsea facility for
production
- Gazprom to raise natural gas price for Moldova by 45 %
- Gazprom buys British company as it expands into UK
- Statoil sells its 236 Irish petrol filling stations
- Tatneft to focus on London Stock Exchange
- Gazprom to supply DONG with gas from 2011
- Nexans wins subsea cable contract for Valhall oil field
- Gazprom seeks to link Shtokman pipelines with Norway’s networks
- Turkmenistan threatens to cut gas exports
- Total to expand gas projects in France
- UES pours cold water on mooted electric power link to Finland
- Italy fines six oil companies for running jet fuel cartel
- Gaz de France forms joint venture with Italian Camfin
- Gazprom considers gas pipeline through Slovenia to Italy
- Italy approves decree to liberalize energy market
- Energy groups in North Sea push to find oil and gas
- Norway approves exploration drilling for Talisman
- Gazprom claims exclusive rights to North European Gas Pipeline
- Wingas Europe to lead Gazprom to Great Britain
- Norway plans new gas pipeline to UK or continental Europe
- ABB to deliver link for power system between Sardinia and Italy
- Gazprom takes stake in Dutch BBL pipeline
- Europe has no alternative to Russian gas
- BHP Billiton joins North Sea exodus
- Interconnector UK plans to increase natural gas import capacity
- Irish energy
regulator approves gas storage at Kinsale field
- Bulgaria creates company for trans-Balkan oil pipeline project
- Europe warned of steep rise in gas price as Russia runs out
- Enel to invest EUR 850 mm in renewable energy projects
- A possibly new energy Eldorado in the Arctic
- Turkey to be mediator in Gazprom's struggle for South European gas
- Gazprom considers new Black Sea gas pipeline to Turkey
- Northern Ireland Electricity and ESB National Grid start interconnector
- Helicopter crisis hits North Sea oil firms
- Germany builds world's first non-polluting coal power plant
- Statoil and Schlumberger to jointly extend oil and gas fields’ life
- Anglo American and Shell form clean coal energy
alliance
- Norsk Hydro lays Ormen Lange control cable
- Endesa to buy Algerian gas in $ 5 bn contract
- OMV and Verbund call off merger because of opposition
- The hopes for an Arctic oil and gas boom
- Gazprom signs gas delivery deal with Romania
- Turkey approves Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline set for 2008
- Statoil expects upcoming seismic season to be very active
- EC raids energy firms in six countries
- Repsol and Gas Natural sign LNG vessel deal
- Petrol Ofisi to establish refinery with OMV
- Roc Oil reports drilling at Blane Oil Field in North Sea
- Gazprom interested in Romgaz privatization
- Russian-owned gas company seeks to expand in UK
- Statoil aims for second Snoehvit LNG train
- Shell chief warns of “new reality”
- Shell vows to finish 50 energy projects
- Report identifies more oil potential off Malta
- Statoil reports highest quarterly profits ever
- BP looks to sell Dutch gas exploration and production operations
- Poland wants to join Norway-Sweden gas pipeline project
- Austria to have national energy champion
- Centrica in talks to get Gazprom gas to UK
- Airtricity proposes pan-European wind energy grid
- Shell awards Halliburton contracts for services in European region
- Construction starts on Bulgaria's first new power plant in 20 years
- Shell hopes to avoid pipeline dispute in
Ireland
- Shell has sustainability at the heart of its business
- Shell and Total see climbing of profits despite production declines
- Royal Dutch Shell to open 20 bn boe of resources by end of decade
- Shell to increase production to 4 mm bpd
- Oil giants ponder challenge of spiralling demand
- Shell Ireland regrets Corrib gas pipeline dispute
- Bulgaria pulls out of Transbalkan Oil Pipeline
- Shell may miss goal to replace oil and gas reserves
- The environmental consequences of the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline
- Turkey approves construction of Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline
- Gazprom takes 51 % stake in NEGP
- SBM Offshore receives contract awards
- Mixed
reaction to Corrib pipeline approval
- EU launches legal action against Spain for energy takeover
- Gazprom plans to increase sales to European markets by 20 %
- E.ON CEO defends Gazprom’s credibility as Europe’s gas partner
- Turkey and Israel to build Mediterranean pipelines
- ScottishPower gets go-ahead for Europe's biggest windfarm
- EU urges Russia to break Gazprom’s grip on pipelines
- Gazprom wants one more partner for NEGP
- Germany and Russia sign gas deal
- Chevron interested in joining Bulgarian-Greek oil pipeline
- Fundamentals of Gazprom's dispute with Europe
- BP chief blames high oil prices on speculation
- Statoil reports on Snoehvit output
- Russia-Algeria ties spark fears in Europe of gas cartel
- Statoil awards equipment contract to Nexans
- ASG to build power plant and regasification site in Albania
- Electrabel steps into Spanish power market
- Turkey seeks veto on Nabucco pipeline use
- Gazprom warns EU not to politicize energy
- Gazprom and E.ON sign agreement on technological cooperation
- World Bank urges Macedonia to reactivate construction of gas network
- Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project may involve Russian companies
- Tunisia signs key pipeline deal with Italy
- Germany to build its first offshore wind farm in Baltic Sea
- Gazprom and BASF sign gas assets swap agreement
- Russiato invest in the Netherlands
- Blocking Gazprom’s expansion plans will "not produce good results”
- Bord Gais plans EUR 300 mm Irish gas-fired power plant
- Gaz de France seeks to buy more gas from Egypt as output rises
- Bulgaria interested in Nabucco pipeline project
- Shell and Exxon start output from UK wind/solar-powered platform
- RWE to build 2,000 MW co-fired power plant in the Netherlands
- Supply is a burning issue for UK gas consumers
- Norway raises gas supply to UK
- Chevron wins exploration rights in Norwegian Barents Sea
- Russia and Slovakia to talk about gas supply and transit
- Norway shields parts of Arctic from oil drilling
- MOL closes sale of gas business toE.ON
- RWE plans clean-coal power plant
- Gaz de France may join Gazprom’s North European Gas Pipeline
- Norway to present its Arctic Management Plan
- Gazprom sets eyes on 30 % of Europe’s gas market
- German ex-chancellor Schroeder voted in as pipeline boss
- IOC kicks off investment deal discussions with Turkey’s Caliak
- Wintershall to invest EUR 450 mm in oil and gas exploration
- EU clears ENI and Portuguese partners to buy energy provider Galp
- Gazprom accuses EU of double standards and naivety
- UK gas import projects on schedule
- Norsk Hydro-Texaco venture sells Baltic operations to Alexela
- Bulgargaz joins new oil pipeline company
- Petroleum Geo-Services to build third generation Ramform vessel
- Greece and Russia to speed up efforts to build Balkan pipeline
- Gaz de France to invest $ 1.8 bn in pipelines linking Europe to Algeria
- E.ON UK creates new division for marine power
- Magnolia Finance buys 5.58 % of MOL
- Shell-Turkey believes in fusion with Turcas
- E.ON offers Hungarian assets for Russian gas field
- Spain and France call for EU plan to guarantee energy supply
- Dutch Vopak and Swiss Biopetrol to build Dutch biodiesel plant
- Shell and Statoil sign deal to utilise CO2 for enhanced oil recovery
- LUKoil considers purchase of Serbian oil company
- Turkey to pay $ 220 bn for oil imports in next 15
years
- CO2 capturing technology paves way for gas power in Norway
- Petrobras to seek oil in Ukraine, Turkey and Egypt
- BP to start oil output at North Sea Buzzard field by yearend
- Statoil and Shell set world's biggest carbon burial plan in North Sea
- Germany’s Linde set to buy UK’s BOC for $ 14 bn
- Centrica signs deal to double stake in Statfjord oil and gas field
- Petrom to invest EUR 42 mm in upgrading its refinery
- ENI lays out 2006-2009 strategic plan and targets
- Turkey and Russia seal gas pipeline deal
- France to keep tight control over GdF/Suez strategy
- Speech of BP’s Lord Browne on the changing energy market
- Amerada Hess to sell North Sea oil
assets
- RWE eyes partnership with Iranian gas pipeline project
- Saipem to acquire ENI’s Snamprogetti
- BP: Demystifying the oil industry
- Suez to merge with Gaz de France
- ConocoPhillips and Total see cost overruns at North Sea oil platforms
- Statoil signs cooperation deal with Halliburton
- Petrobras wins Turkish oil exploration bid
- Greece and Bulgaria to build new electricity transmission line
- E.ON makes EUR 29.1 bn takeover bid for Endesa
- Norsk Hydro establishes new venture fund for energy technology
- Italian regulator approves ENI’s purchase of Siciliana Gas
- Turkey and Egypt to found new energy company
- Germany is extending its
energy relations
- EU energy cartels blamed for fuelling massive rises in British gas bills
- Turkey to begin buying Egyptian natural gas in 2008
- Italy to use up to 40 % of its gas reserves by end of March
- Guascor prepares to export 450 diesel generators to Cuba
- Talisman to acquire interest from Shell and Esso in North Sea fields
- Romania could cash in $ 4 bn from the Constanta-Trieste pipeline
- EU energy groups face antitrust investigations
- E.ON Ruhrgas triples natural gas delivery deals in 2005
- North Sea companies expected to sell more oil and gas fields
- LUKoil buys petrol assets in US and Europe
- Italian regulators fine ENI $ 345 mm for abusing dominant position
- Gazprom to choose partner in North European Pipeline
- Russia seeks more gas links to Europe
- UK gives indications to block Gazprom’s bid for Centrica
- North Sea oil boom may result in scarcity of rigs
- Rigged euro gas market could cost UK £ 3 bn
- Proposed Dutch power law may spark merger- and acquisition spree
- Gazprom eyeing oil projects in Hungary
- Statoil upgrades reserves in Kvitebjorn field
- BG accused of fuelling poverty
- Norsk Hydro begins production at Oseberg West Flank
- Russia offers Turkey price cut for less Iranian gas
- Norway’s Petoro names seven oil fields for CO2 storage market
- Shell believes world has plenty of oil and gas to meet
demand
- Russia and Turkey to extend gas pipeline to Israel and Lebanon
- Spanish government approves Gas Natural takeover bid
- Statoil enters deal with consortium to develop oil and gas field technology
- Danish expertise can help the US find substitute for oil
- Russian partnership pillar of German foreign policy
- Gazprom and Bulgaria eye increased gas supplies
- Statoil and partners invest in Vigdis license to improve oil recovery
- Debates over Russian natural gas prices are starting to come to light
- Statoil to sell gas stations in Ireland
- Gazprom to invest $ 2 bn in Serbia
- Norsk Hydro awards Oseberg Delta contract to Subsea 7
- Gazprom in talks to enter Italian gas
market
- Statoil to upgrade Mongstad refinery
- MOL able to supply consumers despite record cold
- Eight gas companies seek to join Nabucco pipeline project
- Key issues in the Corrib gas controversy
- OMV in cooperation talks with Turkey's Dogan Holding
- Ukraine takes away natural gas from freezing Europe
- Italy drafts emissions bill to offset gas crunch
- Statoil plans 30-40 exploration wells in 2006
- MOL says there have been no violations of gas contract by Gazprom
- Gazprom eyes partnerships with Western energy producers
- Gazprom plans to invest in British energy market
- Arctic weather in Russia prompts gas shortfalls in Europe
- ENI to investin regasification plants
- E.ON ready to take part in energy distribution systems in Bulgaria
- E.ON considers new LNG infrastructure
- Belgium to host Gazprom's gas storage facility
- Romania to use previous learning in privatization of Romgaz
- Introduction to Shell Global Scenarios to 2025
- Norway sees possibility of oil development in closed areas
- German cartel office bans E.ON’s long-term gas contracts
- Moldova and Russia agree on natural gas price
- Norway makes renewed estimate of Goliat discovery
- E.ON interested in gas cooperation with Iran
- E.ON completes acquisition of MOL's gas trading and storage operations
- Shell’s 2025 scenarios highlight vulnerability of
the globalized world
- OMV completes acquisition of Aral's petrol stations in Czech Republic
- Statoil unlikely to develop Snoehvit field
- Romania seeks growth of gas production at Petrom and Romgaz
- Europe scrambles for alternatives to Russian gas
- From Poland to Hungary, Gazprom takes stealth route to domination
- Norway excludes seven firms from oil fund
- Bolivia and Spain discuss hydrocarbons
- NIOC and BP to supply gas to British market from Scottish Ruhm field
- Iran and Britain jointly carry out operations at North Sea gas field
- Norway awards four blocks to Total in APA 2005 round
- E.ON looks at building coal-fired power plant in Britain
- MOL to divest two gas
units on EU ruling
- Oil giants review North Sea investment
- Statoil to deliver more gas to Germany
- E.ON lays out investments plans through 2008
- Cepsa and Sonatrach sign annual 1.6 bn cm natural gas deal
- Italy’s 2005 oil bill soars to EUR 21.6 bn
- Statoil scores license awards in Norwegian continental shelf
- Statoil gets government approval for oil recovery from Tordis field
- Norsk Hydro expects to increase 2006 oil and gas output by 9 %
- Sasol actively seeks markets in Europe to sell GTL diesel
- Russneft wins support for Slovak bid
- Smedvig family sells stake to Noble
- Will there be a sunrise for renewable energy?
- Moldova considers
Gazprom’s proposal to increase gas price
- Argus Resources to build oil refinery in Portugal
- Work begins on Baltic gas pipeline
- World Bank gives Turkey loan for underground gas storage facility
- Bankers Petroleum redevelops heavy oil field in Albania
- Regulators plan French, Dutch, Belgian electricity market integration
- RWE sees more than EUR 35 mm exposure from power outages
- Poland not interested in Baltic Sea gas pipeline
- Iran involved in gas exports to Europe
- LUKoil to ensure that there is no oversupply of Russian oil in Europe
- E.ON to invest $ 5 bn to boost gas imports from Iran and Qatar
- Norway approves Statoil’s plans for Tyrihans field
- GdF in principle
interested in joining Baltic gas pipeline
- Gazprom to increase supply of gas to Europe in 2006
- Palestinians negotiating gas exports to Europe via Egypt
- ConocoPhillips to upgrade German refinery
- Norway upgrades 2006 oil and gas investment outlook
- Ukraine's oil link to boost European supplies
- BP to plough oil and gas profits into alternative energy
- Toreador gets green light for development plans offshore Turkey
- ScottishPower signs gas deal with Statoil
- Ofgem fears gas crisis is scam to raise prices
- Bow Valley gets UK approval for Chestnut oil field development
- Private companies bid for shares in BOTAS
- Norway approves Ringhorne Oest oil development
- Gazprom’s supplies to Europe threatened by row over gas transit in Ukraine
- Endesa to tender $ 594 mm in distribution supply contracts
- AOC transfers interest in Greek refinery company
- India and Turkey sign MoU for oil exploration
- Statoil highlights opportunities in Barents Sea
- Europeans and Iranians mull natural gas line
- The Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline
- IOC to conclude Turkey refinery deal with Calik Energy
- IOI Group eyes green energy expansion in Europe
- Gazprom considers gas supplies to Israel, Italy and Greece
- Oracle Energy starts workover operations in western Romania
- Danish scientists cut fuel price in half
- Gazprom wants partnership with
Turkey
- Repsol-YPF to invest EUR 3.87 bn in Spanish refineries
- Statoil and Chevron team up to explore Barents Sea
- Poland intends to cut reliance on Russian gas
- Romania agrees to help Moldova in electricity supply
- Fuels in Bulgaria are the cheapest in Europe
- LUKoil-Bulgaria agrees to keep domestic fuel prices in check
- Oil majors split on exploration potential of Norwegian Barents Sea
- Spain to have authority in Gas Natural takeover of Endesa-2
- Norway thinks 5 bn boe is still undeveloped on Continental Shelf
- Algeria, Spain and Italy to set up underwater power lines
- Statoil boosts oil production from Norne area
- Iran to start LNG exports to Europe by
2011
- Statoil finds it challenging to meet 2007 oil and gas output target
- Pipeline to boost oil output at Germany's Mittelplate North Sea field
- ENI plans pipeline from Black Sea to Mediterranean
- DNV to lead study optimising clad and lined pipeline materials
- Statoil starts oil production from Urd field
- Gazprom to set new prices for Poland
- Gazprom and ENI to sign new deals
- World's longest subsea pipeline half finished
- Turkey reports on cost of oil in 2005
- Italy and Greece sign deal to build gas pipeline
- Gas pipeline will turn Greece into major gas transit hub
- Statoil assessing Gudrun development
- E.ON to invest in its Dutch
generation fleet
- Kristin field comes on stream off Norway
- Norsk Hydro participates in 6th Danish licensing round
- NPD grants ENI drilling permission for Barents Sea
- Statoil reports solid production growth
- Regional oil market players knock at Serbia's door
- Romania’s Petrotel Refinery receives loan of $ 82 mm
- Crude oil in Austria
- E.ON plans liquefied natural gas terminal in Germany
- Statoil to invest in Tordis development
- Ireland’s Island Oil & Gas plans Celtic Sea drilling program
- ENI to draw up new gas deal with Gazprom
- Talisman agrees to takeover of Paladin
- BP rises to top of oil producers' league
- Statoil sees Norway's gas transport extending to Barents Sea
- Bulgaria invites US to build Belene Nuclear Power Plant
- OMV sets new targets for further growth to 2010
- Gazexport and Wingas sign first deal on North European gas pipeline
- Bulgarian TPP to be sold off to Russian state company
- Premier Oil won't let suitors get their hands on £ 200 mm portfolio
- Greece sees way open for major private investment in energy sector
- Statoil to drill 20 Norwegian exploration wells in 2006
- OMV buys BP gas stations in Czech Republic
- British campaigners oppose Transco pipeline
- E.ON Energie acquires 24.62 % stake in Electrica Moldova
- Putin and Blair meet as EU seeks more Russian oil
and gas
- Gazprom plans to build gas depot in Belgium
- Natural gas is by some distance the least fascinating of all energy
- Bulgaria's Prista Oil storms Turkish oil production market
- EU clears A.P. Moeller-Maersk to buy Kerr-McGee’s North Sea oil sites
- Marathon Oil starts drilling for gas in Irish Sea
- Morgan Stanley close to acquiring power plant in The Netherlands
- E.ON builds up gas production arm
- ENI and Sonatrach set up joint venture Transmed
- ENI CEO hunts for gas and refineries
- IOC to bid for oil projects in Turkey
- Shell plans synthetic fuel production in Germany
- GdF in talks to buy more gas from Gazprom in medium term
- Egypt
and France sign agreement on oil and gas exploration
- Greece to purchase gas from Azerbaijan
- Shell says current high oil prices unsustainable in long run
- Falcon finalizes three drilling locations in Hungary
- Virgin's Branson plans oil refinery
- German Cartel Office opposes long-term gas contracts
- Gazprom head meets UK's energy minister
- Greece and Italy to sign gas pipeline agreement
- Indian Oil loses Tupras to Shell
- E.ON and BASF each to hold 24.5 % stake in NEGP with Gazprom
- UK oil industry faces more pressure to improve safety
- Total raises spending plan on drilling and refining
- UK awards record 152 oil and gas licences in North Sea
- German-Russian pipeline project is en-route
- Norsk Hydro adds extra barge to complete Langeled pipeline
- Shell settles reserves scandal lawsuit
- Norsk Hydro eager to start exploring in Nordland VI sector
- German and Russian leaders to sign crucial gas pipeline deal
- Norwegian and Indian oil firms discuss exploration joint venture
- ExxonMobil to build more Esso gas stations in Hungary
- Grupa Lotos to buy 39 gas stations from ExxonMobil
- Serbia divided over IMF-requested privatisation of state oil company
- Ireland offers two exploration licences in Atlantic
- Turkey to carry Egyptian gas to Europe
- Shell licensed to drill for oil off Ireland’s north coast
- Centrica to pay £ 320 mm for Kerr-McGee’s North Sea gas assets
- Gas storage due in redeveloped oil reservoir off Spain
- A.P. Moeller-Maersk expands oil operations
- Nokia's Ollila to be Shell's new chairman
- Gazprom buys British gas storage capacity
- Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural officially found join venture for LNG business
- Ireland orders Shell to dismantle pipeline
- UK and European energy firms to lead in US take-over sweep
- SABIC in Europe
- Repsol-YPF: high profits, low reserves
- E.ON to invest in UK gas supply
- BP unveils profits of nearly £ 6 bn
- Shell begins new life as single company
- Shell merger approved by UK
court
- Sibir Energy steps up legal battle against Sibneft
- Gas from Shah Deniz to flow to Europe
- Statoil to develop Tyrihans oil and gas field
- TNK-BP to coordinate construction of Bulgaria-Greece oil pipeline
- Shell Ireland sells divisions to Topaz
- BP boss asks for cash to help oil giants go green
- BP’s plan is worth more than money
- Siemens wins permission from EC to acquire Austria's VA Tech
- Shell settles US lawsuit
- UK and Norway approve Enoch oil field development
- Oil firms plan hydrogen-based power station in UK
- Statoil plans to develop new oil field
- UK and Norway approve Blane oil field development
- Statoil and Sonatrach sign LNG and petroleum projects deal
- Anadarko signs agreement for oil exploration off Malta’s south coast
- The North Sea's future looks bright
- Nippon Oil unit begins oil development project in North Sea
- BP’s oil and gas output rises 3.5 %
- ExxonMobil completes restructuring of Dutch gas transportation interests
- Statoil agrees to sale of stake in Borealis
- Shell free from prosecution of overstating oil and gas reserves
- Shell’s shareholders approve merger
- Russia asks Lithuania and The Netherlands to identify Yukos assets
- Voith Siemens to commercialise wave energy technologies
- Shell considers acquisitions up to $ 9 bn
- Turkey to transport gas to Austria
- BP reports world oil consumption hit record high in 2004
- Denmark becomes first country to buy Russian Kyoto quota
- Shell CEO discusses plans for merger
- Halliburton receives contract for Langeled pipeline
- Gaz de France partially privatised
- Naturkraft to build Norway's first gas-fired power plant
- First branch of North European gas pipeline to be built in 2010
- Shell paves the way for future as natural gas giant
- Shell is trying to boost its upstream business
- Kerr-McGee to sell off assets from UK portfolio
- Gazprom, Statoil and Norsk Hydro sign MoU for Arctic development
- BP reports on Turkish oil
consumption
- Gazprom and E.ON consider joint venture in Romania
- How Britain slipped up over North Sea oil
- E.ON to build new power plant in Germany
- Companies apply for record amount of blocks in UK North Sea
- BP believes global oil reserves are enough to meet rising demand
- Statfjord oilfield plan wins approval
- Shell forecasts oil demand to grow faster in next 30 years
- Pressure to invest could herald North Sea shake-up
- Shell warns that energy sector is not "shock proof" from world events
- BP to pump millions into gas station expansion in Poland
- Canadian oil firms ready to snap up North Sea minnows
- Island Oil and Gas acquires portfolio of assets from Lundin
Petroleum
- Statoil to maintain expanded international exploration drive
- E.ON, Ruhrgas and Gazprom settle antitrust case with EU
- Shell changes way it calculates energy reserves
- Norway excludes Kerr-McGee from national oil fund
- Shell, E.ON and partners plan world's largest wind farm in UK
- Interconnector UK to finish first expansion phase by December
- Solitaire lays Snoehvit pipeline
- Gazprom to use LNG shipments in bid to raise UK market share
- Oil rigs planned for North Canterbury
- Norway’s oil and gas investments may rise to a record this year
- Italy's CDP interested in Snam Rete gas stake
- Asgard Transport line to offer win-win situation for Norway and
UK
- Vattenfall plans $ 1bn wind farm project
- Ukraine to buy and transport oil to Europe with SOCAR
- Gazprom to build Austrian gas storage facility with Wingas
- IOC makes offer for Turkey's biggest refiner Tupras
- North Sea oil and gas field sell-offs seen accelerating
- GE launches showcase for offshore wind power
- ENI and Sonatrach to increase capacity of Transmed
- Gazprom buys Fortum out of NEGP project company
- Shell reports fewer spills and worker deaths
- Denmark invites firms to bid in 6th oil and gas licensing round
- Air France-KLM’s results hurt by oil prices
- Scottish & Southern Energy adds 850,000 customers
- Climate friendly
fuels?
- Italy strikes first in EU power battle
- Scottish mining tycoon to float oil and gas exploration firm
- No oil for Statoil in Barents Sea well
- Sibir claims that UK freezing order is attempt to destabilize the firm
- Petroceltic wins shallow water license offshore Italy
- Italy and Qatar could jointly build up to ten new gas terminals
- Foreign firms see high profits on Norwegian Shelf this year
- EdF to form partnerships with AEM and Enel
- E.ON purchases gas fired power plant in UK
- Italy’s energy regulator aims to cut Snam Rete’s gas' tariffs
- Iberdrola becomes largest wind farm owner in the world
- Shell and BASF to sell Basell joint venture to Access Industries
group
- QP, ExxonMobil and Edison sign final deal for LNG terminal
- RWE and Gazprom may produce natural gas jointly as demand rises
- BP agrees on gas export solution for Skarv field
- Greece and Italy plan undersea gas pipeline
- BP is not worried by rise of Chinese and Indian firms
- Shell rated as world's most ethical oil firm
- Statoil believes Arctic border dispute won't delay exploration
- Norsk Hydro begins construction of world's longest subsea pipeline
- Norway approves Statfjord gas project
- Statoil sees 20 bn cmpy output from Shtokman by 2012
- Total CEO sees delayed economic impact from high oil prices
- INA to spend 800 mm on refinery modernization
- Norway approves Statfjord gas project
- Shell to sell three North Sea oil assets
- CNOOC opens London office
- Kerr-McGee to sell UK assets worth over $ 210 mm
- Iran’s Khatami receives ENI's president
- LUKoil to invest in Finnish Teboil
- Statoil shuts down oil drilling rig after its third Arctic oil spill
- Russia to buy Norwegian natural gas
- Itochu buys stakes in North Sea oil fields from Tullow Oil
- Germany and Russia sign major business deals
- UK approves development of Total's Forvie North gas field
- Swiss EGL to build gas pipeline from Greece to Italy
- Feasibility study for Nabucco pipeline to be presented in Brussels
- Wintershall and Romgaz to invest in Romanian operations
- EU clears financing for Medgaz pipeline project
- RasGas II delivers first LNG cargo to Spain
- Petrom plans EUR 1 bn investment by 2008
- Gazprom might enter European oil market
- BP's oil and gas production rises because of Russian venture
- Iberdrola to invest EUR 2.5 bn in 2005
- MOL arranges EUR 450 mm revolving credit line
- EVN acquires majority in Austria's RAG
- National Grid Transco plans £ 335 mm LNG expansion
- Imports will keep UK's power plants running
- Siemens to buy Flender Holding
- Albania signs deal with Occidental for oil and natural gas drilling
- LUKoilto expand in Finnish and Hungarian retail markets
- Ofreg grants two licences to Bord Gais
- Shell takes Mayo landowners to court
- EU clears LUKoil’s buy of two Finnish oil firms
- Italy to issue decree to assist ENI in exit of Snam Rete Gas
- Centrica to seek bids for £ 400 mm power plant
- Yukos to resume oil shipments to Europe
- AMEC reveals study into £ 40 mm offshore wind farm project
- BP's global fortunes
- Statoil announces cost overrun projection for Kristin project
- BP underlines its position as dominant global energy trader
- Melrose to explore Rhone Mediterranean acreage
- Dana wins stake in North Sea block
- Shell’s final audit shows
2002 reserves overstated by 41 %
- BP moves to float off olefins and derivatives division
- Euronav acquires four VLCCs
- EU approves Repsol-YPF’s purchase of Shell’s LPG in Portugal
- Norway approves Statfjord late-life development
- Gazprom considers expansion into French market
- Shell and ERG to build LNG terminal in Sicily
- ENI nominates blocks in Norwegian and Barents Sea
- Shell to stay in Norwegian Sea for Norway's 19th licensing round
- Chevron and Conoco to nominate blocks in Norwegian licensing round
- Swedish court increases fines against oil and gas firms
- BP to maintain investment in mature North Sea oil fields
- Statoil seeks stronger gas position
- Scottish firms urged to get into decommissioning
- Total chief calls for greater access to OPEC reserves
- BP’s Clair field officially inaugurated
- Stratic Energy to drill offshore Turkey
- Spain’s energy regulation could reshape company ownership
- Italy sets guidelines for Snam Rete gas sale
- Serbia holds talks with Shell on potential partnership
- Cooper Cameron takes over Romanian oil equipment manufacturer
- 3i fears small scale of oil start-ups could hamper North Sea production
- Report says Shell is world's most ethical oil company
- Norway to sell shares in Statoil
- LUKoil acquires two Finnish energy firms
- Alfa Laval strengthens its position in
the oil and gas industry
- Statoil to develop Volve field
- First word from CEO of Shell's Exploration & Production business
- Enel wins tender for state’s stake in Slovenske Elektrarne
- Statoil’s board approves Statfjord late-life gas project
- Tullow Oil reports on 2004 acquisitions and investments
- Faroe Petroleum acquires two North Sea blocks
- DONG to buy Copenhagen Energy’s power operations
- Statoil resumes production at Snorre and Vigdis fields
- Aker Kvaerner wins Fram East contract from Norsk Hydro
- France set to open EdF, GdF and Areva to private capital this year
- North Sea to have biggest wind farm in the world soon
- Romania approves sell-off of power
distributors to E.ON and CEZ
- Missionary zeal may save Shell oil company
- Norske Shell and Statoil to swap assets offshore Norway
- Shell cuts oil and gas reserves by a further 10 %
- PKN Orlen unveils five-year strategy
- VNG seeks to strengthen ties with Gazprom
- Talisman pays $ 155 mm for Petra
- TNK-BP to coordinate plans to build Burgas to Alexandroupolis pipeline
- Petroceltic to explore area off Donegal coast
- Aral to sell its Czech gas stations
- Statkraft enters gas power agreement in Germany
- Gazprom launches talks with Austria on further gas deliveries
- Russia, Greece and Bulgaria to sign memorandum on building pipeline
- Refusal to
raise bills pays off for Scottish & Southern Energy
- Oil firms target Britain to oppose action to tackle climate change
- MOL announces that crude oil supplies are safe
- Norsk Hydro believes in next oil find in Bjoernoya field
- BP and other North Sea firms to face huge tax
- UK lawmakers question oil companies' profits
- Dana completes acquisition of North Sea Johnston field stake
- Fortum reasserts its call option over E.ON's Finland shares
- Europa Oil & Gas starts drilling in Romania
- LUKoil sets its terms to supply Poland with oil
- Endesa Italia wins wind farms deal in Sicily
- Statoil wins allowance to reopen Snorre oil platform
- Norway approves new pipeline to Njord
Field
- Greenland grants oil-drilling rights to EnCana and Nunaoil
- Ofgem approves National Grid Transco's sale of gas distribution networks
- Yukos halts deliveries to Europe
- BP to spend £ 1 bn in North Sea
- ExxonMobil unit announces first gas at North Sea's Arthur Field
- Shell in recruitment drive to regain ground
- Oil minnow ready to tap into Faroese resources
- WWF uses SMS alert system in case of oil spillage in Baltic Sea
- PowerWell Services acquires majority interest in Petrotech
- Could an acquisition restore Shell?
- ExxonMobil extensively upgrades its Norwegian Sleipner West field
- Aker Yards to build new gas powered ferries
- PGNiG
plans to boost extraction to 5.5 bn cm in 2007
- PGNiG hopes bondholders approve gas pipeline lease
- Shell shifts supply chain to Norway
- BP expects 10.0 % annual rise in daily oil output
- OMV appoints new board at Romania's Petrom oil firm
- E.ON converts its Grain power station
- Russia and Germany have good outlook for energy cooperation
- Norway clears 7 new oil and gas firms for offshore development
- Wingas to buy Roc's Saltfleetby gas field
- German cartel office probes gas suppliers' tariff policy
- Tullow to acquire interests in Shell and ExxonMobil
- E.ON's $ 3 bn gas plan threatened by Hungarian regulators
- E.ON to invest EUR 18.7 bn over next three years
- Denmark's Elsam-DONG merger faces resistance
- Repsol-YPF acquires Shell's LPG business in Portugal
- Gazprom maintains gas supplies to Bulgaria at same level
- UK to import gas from the east through pipeline
- Boom or boost for North Sea
- Norsk Hydro awards Aker Kvaerner subsea contract for Fram Ost
- Trio merger to become new force in North Sea oil sector
- EU Commission blocks Portuguese electricity and gas merger
- Romania to sell three power producer complexes in 2005
- OMV makes full payment for 51 % stake in Romania’s Petrom oil firm
- Petrom acquires two-year incentives for crude oil extraction
- Norway offers 28 production licenses
- Norway receives
Skinfaks development plan from Statoil
- ExxonMobil’s upgrade of Sleipner field to increase production
- BP receives approval to develop Farragon discovery
- Slovakia must pump EUR 2 bn into electric supplies
- Norway's PSA upholds Barents Sea exploration decision
- Nexen completes UK North Sea acquisition for $ 2.1 bn
- Petroplus and partners sign UK LNG terminal agreements
- Paladin and Energy North Sea get approval for Brechin field
- Statoil evacuates North Sea platform after gas leak
- Statfjord Field produces oil for 25 years for Norway
- Oman Oil to acquire 7.5 % stake in Saggas
- Shell to source LNG from Oman, Qatar, Malaysia and Australia
- MOL’s acquisition of Shell
Romania to boost downstream stake
- BP sells Ormen Lange stake for $ 1.2 bn to DONG
- Dana Petroleum buys North Sea stake
- Statoil sees 12 bn boe in reserves potential in disputed area
- Gazprom to conquer UK gas market
- Statoil accused of hoarding fallow oil and gas blocks
- Shell shifts European oil exploration to northern, deeper waters
- Norsk Hydro and partners submit plan for gas export from Njord field
- MOL would support Gazprom’s acquisition of stake
- Oman Oil buys 15 % stake in Union Fenosa gas unit
- Companies eye strategic partnership with Bosnian oil firm
- Enagas selects Fluor for expansion of regasification plant
- OMV to buy new shares in Romania’s
Petrom
- Shell believes only half of UK North Sea oil and gas is exploited so far
- Slovakia wants to buy back pipeline stakes from Yukos
- Statoil sees world’s spare oil capacity at 2 mm bpd in 2005
- MOL announces sell-off of gas arm to E.ON Ruhrgas
- TransGas to build natural gas pipeline toward Ukraine
- Romanian Astra crude oil refinery to be shut down
- Statoil successfully implements two first light well interventions
- E.ON plans to build top wind farm in UK
- Shell starts production at North Sea Howe field
- Dutch gas liberalization comes a step closer
- Endesa to acquire wind farms in Italy from Gamesa
- Romania relaxes conditions for eligible natural gas
consumer
- EU Commission rules gas contracts illegal
- Shell starts drilling to regain confidence
- UK customers give EdF the thumbs down
- Electricite de France has a looming hole in its accounts
- Gasunie's transport and trade units to be unbundled
- AAM plans to set up £ 60 mm North Sea fund
- Nexen buys EnCana's UK oil business
- Queen officially opens UK’s first gas-fuelled power station
- E.ON signs deal for Bulgarian power distributors
- Norsk Hydro upgrades Oseberg East platform
- LUKoil restarts Romanian crude oil refinery Petrotel
- Centrica to buy Hawkeye Exploration
- BP makes £17,000 profit a minute
- Sale of
Enel pushes Europe's total stock offerings past US
- Former Russian spy helped in sale of Poland’s Rafineria Gdanska
- North Sea oil and gas firms could be hit by windfall tax on profits
- North Sea operators deny responsibility for high gas prices and blackouts
- Gazprom and BASF discuss broader cooperation
- Romania to sell gas firm for $ 383 mm to Ruhrgas
- Britain has no room for energy supply complacency
- Norsk Hydro receives licence for exploratory drilling in Barents Sea
- Shell starts production on Goldeneye field development
- Poland wants to buy Norwegian CNG
- BP to sell minority stake in Ormen Lange gas field
- Europe worries over Russian Gazprom's influence
- Shell
Group increases its spending in Europe
- Ousted Shell chairman finds his rights have been violated
- Rising oil prices to cost Turkey additional $ 1.5 bn
- Sale of Transco’s networks may take longer
- UK bankers face extradition in Enron case
- EU to charge ExxonMobil, Shell and Ballast Nedam with price-fixing
- Lundin Petroleum sells stake in OER Oil to Endeavour International
- Shell to sell underperforming and non-core operations
- Centrica buys Scottish windfarm
- Private equity firms move in on North Sea oil sector
- ENI needs to double its size to shut out political intrigue
- Elia, APX and Powernext to establish Belgian power exchange
- Enel highlights its generous
dividend policy
- Shell to unite parent companies
- BP makes attempt to calm the world concerning oil crisis
- Tullow increases interest in UK Horne & Wren fields
- New CEO plans to make Statoil more effective
- Total shuts down North Sea field for good
- Chairman of Repsol tenders resignation
- Irish gas supplier acquires license to supply gas in UK
- Searches for new reserves fail to pay for oil groups
- PKN Orlen applies for approval for acquisition of Czech Unipetrol
- Court opens corruption appeal against Elf
- Total officials detained in bribes probe
- Ofgem blames high oil prices for steep rise in wholesale prices
- French hypermarkets drive outoil major retailers
- GE completes tests on compressors for Europe's first LNG plant
- Statfjord Field to produce more gas
- Shell to increase its global annual capital
- Serbia to repay Chinese debt
- Marubeni to buy Energy North Sea Holdings
- UK awards 22nd round licenses
- BP seeks go-ahead for European oil mergers
- Hydro and Statkraft to build gas-fired power plant at Karstoe
- Shell's battle plan fails to win over markets
- Cheap power is a thing of the past
- New exploration fields set to transform Faroe Petroleum
- Tullow attains nine blocks in UK North Sea
- Antrim Energy wins exploration block in UK North Sea
- Tenaris to construct power plant in Italy
- Oil firms agree on new code of conduct for North Sea pipeline
- BP sees no energy supply problem
- Sweden approves plans to build German-Swedish gas pipeline
- EU approves Repsol's purchase of Shell’s Portuguese operations
- ABS to classify first LNG deepwater port buoy
- BorsodChem stake for sale
- Statoil to expand petroleum projects with Gazprom and Rosneft
- Disa to become Spain's 4th largest oil firm after purchase of Shell assets
- MOL satisfied with gas business sale process
- Shell to sell stakes in Belgian gas firms to Suez-Tractebel
- Gazprom and BOTAS to supply Russian gas to Middle East
- Gazprom and
BOTAS agree to re-export Russian gas to third countries
- Gazprom applies for 25 % of shares in MOL
- North Sea wind and oil attracts Talisman’s interest
- Development of Ormen Lange is on track
- Shell to abolish discovery bonus
- Shell to invest in its oil reserves crisis division
- Shell launches clear-out of $ 15 bn of its assets
- Petrom allocates overall investment budget
- Scottish offshore wind farm receives government funding
- Shell to increase 2004 spending in Europe
- Britain considers building two power stations in south Wales
- CETech develops new CNG concept for gas transport
- FSA and SEC announce final settlements with Shell
- Troll
license holders evaluate gas production
- Dor-Alon and partners to take over Bulgarian gas firm
- Germany to have world's largest solar photovoltaic project
- ENEL may stop using oil for fuel by 2008
- Romania announces winners of gas tenders
- Slovnaft sees profit more than double
- UK needs $ 33 bn on new infrastructure to meet energy demand
- Transelectrica to invest in modernization of power stations
- E.ON signs UK gas supply deal
- Wintershall to build gas pipeline network with Romgaz and Transgaz
- Australian oil company surveys Maltese waters for likely reserves
- Lundin sells 60 % stake in license to BG
- ENI launches probe into bribery allegation at EniPower
unit
- Centrica signs LNG contract with Petronas
- Gazprom to invest more in Turkey
- Lundin Petroleum achieves first oil from offshore UK field
- Total believes OPEC is a true friend
- Spain asks Morocco about reported oil deals in territorial waters
- Foreign firms race to fuel UK with natural gas
- Shell pays $ 151 mm in fines to watchdogs
- Centrica warns on rising energy costs
- US firms seriously interested in Bulgarian energy sector development
- DONG and ConocoPhillips swap North Sea licenses
- Phoenix helps in clean up from Prestige oil spill
- Shell Danmark starts direct gas export to The Netherlands
- Romania’s Transelectrica to receive $ 40mm loan from Citibank
- OMV gets controlling stake in Petrom
- Shell signs long-expected license deal with Polish refiner Lotos
- NAM to begin exploration program under North Sea
- Romania to sign privatisation contract for Petrom with OMV
- Norway reduces stake in Statoil
- Turkey and EU concerned about TNK’s pipeline plan
- Polish Grupa Lotos sets six year target to treble production
- Norway's Bergesen rethinks LNG strategy in crowded ship market
- ABB completes key sale
- JBIC provides loan for thermal power plant in Bulgaria
- EBRD provides loan for Albania’s power utility
- Norwegian oil production resumes after strike
- Shell to divest assets inPortugal
- Total wins exploration license offshore Norway
- Behind the shine -- the real impacts of Shell's work around the world
- Shell faces global attack over ecological policies
- Norwegian group develops well plug system
- Gazprom holds energy talks with France
- ENI and Enel should sell entire stakes in Snam Rete Gas and Terna
- BP believes world oil and gas reserves still growing at healthy pace
- Italian regulators conclude ENI still dominates gas market
- Vattenfall Europe examines new power plant investments in Germany
- Enel moves forward on acquisition of Romanian power distributors
- A warm welcome to the attitude change on global warming
- E.ON considers building
gas pipeline with Gazprom
- Norway sells shares in Statoil
- Toyota and Shell launch technology to reduce car emissions
- ExxonMobil prolongs successful oil and gas exploration in Norway
- Statoil plans new gas powered energy plants
- Gas Natural signs 20-year LNG deal with QatarGas
- Statoil presents plans for industrial projects
- Shell expects 85 % of written off oil reserves will later be restored
- Jacobs purchases share of Fortum's Neste Engineering
- BP’s oil and gas reserves marginally larger than reported
- Gazprom discusses gas supply contracts with Serbia
- It’s time for Shell to clean up its oil accounting
- Norsk Hydro cuts reserves estimates by 6.6 %
- Swiss Taurus Petroleum becomes purchaser of SOCAR oil
- Total and partners to start up production at Glenelg gas field
- Statoil says report uncovers no proof of Iranian bribery
- Gazprom finds partner to buy Romania's natural gas distributor
- Endesa completes acquisition of Endesa Italia
- Climate change makes Shell boss fear for the planet
- Gazprom may take part in Serbian gas projects
- Paladin wins stake in four blocks offshore Norway
- BP defends oil reserve estimate method
- Orlen's gas import plans could speed up Polish liberalization
- Statoil increases investment estimate for Snoehvit
- BP reveals European sell-offs
- Endesa to have EUR 10 bn
available to spend
- Construction of Turkish-Greek gas pipeline begins by yearend
- Centrica buys Killingholme power station
- Shell wins exploration blocks off Norwegian coast
- UK energy firms set to benefit from new Norwegian licenses
- Romania's Petromidia refinery receives syndicated loan
- Norway awards 16 offshore oil and gas production licenses
- France wants Algerian debt swap
- ScottishPower announces £ 400 mm plan to rewire Scotland
- Poland's PKN Orlen is buying as fast as it can
- Petra Perdana enters tripartite joint venture for North Sea oil and gas
- OMV named as sole bidder for SNP Petrom
- Statoil acquires full ownership of service stations chain
- PowerGen changes name of its I&C business to E.ON Energy
- Gasunie to invest in Netherlands-UK gas pipeline
- Statoil will hit production cost target of $ 2.70 a barrel this year
- Petro-Canada acquires 29.9 % of North Sea Buzzard field
- Shell downgrades size of oil reserves fourth time this year
- As fresh prospects dry up, oil industry strikes deals
- Tensions mount over Galp Energia sale
- Eural-Trans Gas set to play a major role in European gas market
- Shell awards pan-European maintenance contract to Subsea 7
- CH4 Energy acquires Markham gas field from ENI
- Statoil signs new gas sales contract with British Gas
- Belgian market opening prompts Distrigas to look abroad
- LUKoil interested in buying Polish oil group
- Royal Dutch Petroleum announces directorate change
- The North Sea’s David and Goliath row
- LUKoil seeks Polish partners in bringing crude to Europe
- Orlen might be listed on Budapest stock exchange
- Norway considers further privatisation of Statoil
- MOL sees no oil price decline
- Dutch Yukos Finance becomes only holder of Swiss Petroval
- Humbly Grove to become one of Britain's largest gas storage facilities
- Precision Drilling to buy UK-based Reeves Oilfield Services
- Portugal calls for energy cooperation with Iran
- Protesters expected to appeal over Shell's Irish gas project
- BP’s new plans give major
boost to Scotland’s economy
- OMV and Gazexport to boost Russian gas shipments to Austria
- RasGas signs service deal with GE Energy
- PKN Orlen to pay for Unipetrol with own resources
- Statoil expects Kristin development to cost NOK18.9 bn
- Statoil submits plan for Norne satellites
- Romania owes power transit fees to NEC
- Gazprom to set up gas trader in Hungary
- Talisman buys North Sea assets from Intrepid Energy
- Turkey to allow import of natural gas by private firms
- Turkey to abolish natural gas monopoly BOTAS
- Romanian senate approves tax breaks for Petrom oil company
- Gaz de France and Ruhrgas settle pipeline case with EU
- BP should
enjoy benefits of EU enlargement
- Shell to dismiss thousands of its information technology workers
- Global pressure on energy
- Oil giants join powerful coalition to tackle climate change
- PKN Orlen only bidder for Unipetrol
- OMV and Gazexport to boost Russian gas shipments to Austria
- RasGas signs service deal with GE Energy
- PKN Orlen to pay for Unipetrol with own resources
- Statoil expects Kristin development to cost NOK18.9 bn
- Statoil submits plan for Norne satellites
- Romania owes power transit fees to NEC
- Gazprom to set up gas trader in Hungary
- Talisman buys North Sea assets from Intrepid Energy
- Turkey to allow import of natural
gas by private firms
- Turkey to abolish natural gas monopoly BOTAS
- Romanian senate approves tax breaks for Petrom oil company
- Gaz de France and Ruhrgas settle pipeline case with EU
- BP should enjoy benefits of EU enlargement
- Shell to dismiss thousands of its information technology workers
- Global pressure on energy
- Oil giants join powerful coalition to tackle climate change
- PKN Orlen only bidder for Unipetrol
- ChevronTexaco discusses joint venture with Poland
- Ocean Power Delivery secures Portuguese energy deal
- A very British kind of scandal: why Shell is no Enron
- Serbia’s NIS seeks foreign investment loans
- Shell needs rest of
decade to rebuild exploration business
- Lies, cover-ups, fat cats and an oil giant in crisis
- Merger politics hit Central Europe
- Bosanski Brod refinery starts production of lead-free gas
- Orlen's merger with MOL threatened by takeover of Yukos
- Shell restates reserves for third time
- Statoil signs deal with Ocean Rig for drilling in Barents Sea
- Three companies bid for SNP Petrom
- Gazprom enters partnership with Turkish Bosporus Gas
- Gas Natural announces capital investment plans through 2008
- Statoil's Odin tanker to aid in clean-up of Prestige spill
- Montenegro to sign contract with Ramco Energy
- Saipem wins contract to extract fuel from Prestige oil
tanker
- Gazprom, Wingas and EU discuss access to energy market
- Italy’s antitrust regulator may fine ENI on gas market dominance
- Poland prepares for oil and gas privatisation
- BP plans $ 80 mm refinery upgrade in south of France
- ENI announces sale of stake in Snam Rete Gas
- Small prospectors move into North Sea
- BP expects production to grow 5 % a year through 2008
- BP expects 1Q production to be at 3.17 mm bpd
- 200-turbine wind farm to be set up using the infrastructure of the Beatrice field
- Comment by Shell International on human rights norms article
- Shell leads business campaign against UN human rights norms
- ExxonMobil to increase Norwegian production at
Ringhorne Field
- Shell could face criminal inquiry into downgrade of oil reserves
- Deutsche Bank comes to Shell’s defence
- Shell kept data secret for fear of damaging relationship with Nigeria
- Ormen Lange to become focus of inquiry by SEC
- Norsk Hydro to increase North Sea Oseberg supply
- Shell cuts reserves for second time in two months
- Five foreign firms submit bids in Romanian gas privatisation process
- Gazprom participates in tender for Romanian gas distributors
- Teekay acquires Spanish LNG and oil shipping company
- BP reduces old reserve estimate
- ChevronTexaco gets UK approval for Alba development
- Audit committee backs Shell executives
- Wintershall to build underground gas storage facility in Romania
- Planners give go-ahead to UK LNG terminal
- Statoil considers development of Norne satellite fields
- Botas to finish Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline on time
- New Statoil CEO to expand abroad as Norwegian reserves dwindle
- Yukos to develop Polish gas station network through franchises
- Northern Ireland firm proves its worth in high-tech expertise
- Steag's German activities to be merged with RAG Saarberg division
- Regal Petroleum invests $ 6 mm in Romanian gas explorations
- Europe remains priority market for Russian gas
- Gaz de France explores new business opportunities
- Shell's chairman steps down after company
slashes oil reserves
- Slovnaft prepares for further expansion into Polish market
- Lithuania cancels privatisation of energy company
- Aker Kvaerner to split itself into three companies
- UK-Belgium gas pipeline to triple import capacity
- New Houston-based oil firm to focus on North Sea niche
- Statoil and DONG acquire stakes in Shetland licence
- PKN Orlen to make EUR 410 mm investment
- Tatneft says sale of Turkey’s stake in Tupras is legal
- Statoil starts gas supply to Dutch Essent
- Statoil to supply PGNiG with gas via Germany
- RWE, Scottish Power and EHN to invest in UK wind energy projects
- Marathon and partners to submit plan for Alvheim development
- Aladdin to drill appraisal well at Karakilise oil field in Turkey
- SEC starts formal probe of Shell’s reserves cut
- Total to shed third of chemicals unit
- Hungary sells 10.5 % stake in MOL
- Scottish & Southern Energy confirms bid for UK gas network
- Wintershall plans to start natural gas exploitation in Romania
- Statoil and GdF to divide operatorship of Norwegian Gjoa discovery
- MOL to seek bids for its gas divisions
- ScottishPower wins approval for biggest UK wind farm
- UK grants ConocoPhillips Valkyrie gas field development contract
- MOL to sell stakes in gas units to finance expansion
- Gazprom to make investment decision for North European pipeline in Q4
- Statoil aims to boost efficiency target in 2004
- Statoil strengthens profitability in 2003
- Turkey accepts Tatneft's bid for Tupras refinery
- UK Melrose to explore oil field in Bulgaria
- Vattenfall and PSE adjust power agreements
- Romanian pipeline transporter to upgrade network
- Talisman wins two new licenses in Norwegian North Sea
- Fluor selected for greenhouse gas research and development study
- Poland fuses three refineries and offshore oil firm into Lotos fuel group
- EU gives green light for Wingas-Norsk Hydro joint venture
- Ruhrgas and Wingas postpone construction of South German pipeline
- Russia and Finland to study feasibility for North European oil pipeline
- RWE Innogy to double size of wind power business
- Statoil’s Glitne field doubles production
- LUKoil considers renting European refinery
- Turkish competition board endorses Tupras privatisation
- MOL sells minority stake in EGAZ and DEGAZ to Gaz de France
- Private investors consortium buys ABB's oil and gas division
- Aquila and FirstEnergy complete sale of Midlands Electricity to PowerGen
- Statoil receives fine for chemical spill in 2000
- Shell assesses imprecise estimates of reserves
- Statoil and partners to drill for more oil from Asgard Field
- Spain's Gas Natural buys Italy's Grupo Brancato
- Romania to auction power plant
- Spain wants Enagas to
have stake in Algerian-Spanish pipeline
- PKN Orlen to invest in retail-network overhaul
- MOL raises Slovnaft stake to 98.5 %
- Denmark could earn from sale of DONG
- Gas Natural signs supply contract with QatarGas
- Lundin Petroleum announces increase in reserves
- Statoil acquires Norsk Hydro's interest in Snoehvit gas field
- Statoil plans to tap Gullfaks satellite
- Shell to build world's biggest solar plant in Germany
- Tatneft wins Turkish privatisation tender
- Total signs long term charters for new Stena P-MAX tankers
- Tatneft acknowledges bids for refiners in Turkey and Czech Republic
- Statoil renews deepwater exploration cooperation deal with Norske Shell
- BP and TPAO expect to start drilling in eastern Black Sea
- Ukrainian pipeline to go through Poland
- Centrica to acquire further offshore assets
- Power producers receive more pollution credits than expected
- Turkish-German consortium makes highest bid for Tupras
- Vattenfall to raise stake in Polish distributor GZE to 75 %
- Why did Shell slash estimates of its proven reserves by 20 %?
- Shell significantly overestimated proved global oil and gas reserves
- GroupRed to upgrade Statoil sites in Scandinavia
- PGNiG to sign contract with German SAP
- MOL spins-off natural gas business
- Hellenic Petroleum to build petrol stations in Bulgaria
- ExxonMobil to
open technology and accounting centre in Prague
- EnCana and partners receive approval for Buzzard development plan
- Aker Kvaerner wins contract for offshore LNG receiving terminal
- UK to offer firms protection to invest in Libya
- Hardman abandons oil exploration off Malta
- Statoil and partners to begin development of North Sea discovery
- Poland's largest energy-producing group looking for co-financiers
- Mystery British company buys half the shares in Romanian oil deal
- Aker Kvaerner to sell oil and gas assets
- E.ON takes over Ruhrgas stake in Prague gas holding
- Medgaz consortium to invest in new Spain-Algeria gas pipeline
- How and for how long it is possible to secure a sustainable growth of oilsupply
- OMV and Transpetrol to construct Slovakia-Austria oil pipeline
- Hartlepool-based Heerema yard to create jobs after oil rig order
- Petronas to buy stake in LNG terminal project in Wales
- Grupo Dragados to build rig for EnCana
- Turkish privatisation board delays sale of Tupras
- New oil pipeline to connect Bratislava to OMV refinery
- Lundin Petroleum unveils 2004 spending plans
- EC orders EdF to repay 1 bn euro in tax breaks
- Blackstone launches bid for Germany’s Celanese
- Statoil expects to start drilling in Barents Sea early 2005
- PKN Orlen plans to secure crude-oil access in 2004
- Gas Galicia plans expansion
- ExxonMobil to increaseEuropean presence
- Foreign oil firms assess company data of Petrom
- BP and Shell may convert refineries to meet diesel surge
- Suez raises its direct stake in Electrabel
- Repsol-YPF signs contract to buy Iraqi oil
- Norsk Hydro and Wingas form joint venture to sell natural gas in UK
- PGNiG wants to sign new Norwegian gas deal in 2004
- Fourteen investors show interest in Unipetrol
- BG accepts offer for Norwegian offshore blocks
- EWE increases stake in VNG
- PGNiG secures EUR 600 mm credit line
- MOL calls off sale of share
- ENI and Repsol reach collaboration agreement
- Chevron wants to transport oil to Europe via Odessa-Brody pipeline
- Statoil and Ostfold Energi establish jointly-owned natural gas company
- Ruhrgas spins off transport business into new subsidiary
- E.ON to sell stakes in VNG and EWE
- Statoil scraps price agreement after investigation
- EdF and EnBW acquire another stake in Polish power plant
- Shell's presence in Central Europe to grow significantly
- PKN Orlen supports fast launch of joint venture with MOL
- Ruhrgas to expand abroad
- Statoil and PGNiG decide to end gas sales agreement
- OMV plans to invest EUR 400 mm in Russian projects
- Gaz de France and Total agree on division of networks
- Elf verdicts reveal state corruption at highest levels
- Gazprom joins bidding
for Romania’s Petrom
- MOL and PKN plan merger
- ExxonMobil and QP announce North Adriatic LNG terminal deal
- EBRD acquires Slovak power stake from E.ON
- Statoil and Gazprom discuss development of Shtokman gas field
- Statoil believes burying gas could be key to greener future
- Fortum could become Gazprom’s partner in gas pipeline venture
- International firms interested in Romania's natural gas distribution
- Statoil boss declares war on corruption
- E.ON records 11 % debit increase
- MOL completes acquisition of INA stakes
- Scottish Power to benefit from termination of contracts with SSE
- Idemitsu group begins oil production in Norwegian fields
- Lundin Petroleum to acquire DNO assets
- MOL to invest more than planned in INA
- Scottish Gas ready to offer new services
- Petroplus and BG Group to cooperate on Welsh LNG terminal
- Hungary's BorsodChem eyes Unipetrol's Spolana subsidiary
- MOL and PKN launch talks about bidding for Petrom
- OMV prepares offer for Romania's Petrom
- Gazprom's position in Europe weakens
- Poland and Hungary discuss oil merger of PKN Orlen and MOL
- MOL leads European oil firms in production efficiency
- Mexico's Zeta Gas builds liquefied gas storage plant in Spain
- Statoil ignored internal audit unit in Iran scandal
- New information revealed in Statoil’s Iran
case
- Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural negotiate gas joint venture
- Burlington to invest in Sichuan natural gas field
- Iran may sue Norway over Statoil scandal
- Scottish & Southern Energy hits out at E.ON over new acquisition
- ScottishPower targets US investment spree
- ScottishPower leads wind farms revolution
- London's IPE and Japan's TOCOM to increase co-operation
- Student’s design may lead to huge savings for oil and gas industry
- New gas tariffs at MOL prompt cautious optimism
- Statoil appoints new boss amid corruption scandal
- Scots face uphill battle to win Iraqi contracts
- MOL makes new buyout offer for Slovnaft shares
- German oil
refining industry achieves impressive first-half profit
- MOL to invest in environmental investments at Zalaegerszeg refinery
- BP-Algeria joint venture to meet UK gas demands
- Repsol-YPF fits better into Total's strategy than Cepsa
- Gazprom and Ruhrgas to set up pipeline taskforce
- PowerGen acquires Midlands Electricity
- Minority shareholders in RWE Gas deliver ultimatum
- Painting a clearer picture of oil well drilling
- Russian firms ready to buy into Macedonian oil refineries
- Statoil develops new method for sand handling
- US Pogo Producing begins drilling in Hungary
- PGNiG hopes to sign deal to secure company from liquidity crunch
- Galp acquires petrol stations in
Valencia region
- Total starts gas production at North Sea field
- Total wants to end co-operation with SCH in Cepsa investment
- Ruhrgas takes cautious approach to Baltic gas pipeline
- Gazprom holds talks with foreign partners in north European project
- Shell finds Scottish target for renewable energy projects ambitious
- Gazprom signs deal to supply natural gas to Bulgaria
- List of possible North TransGas Pipeline participants increases
- Rompetrol aims to become Romania's largest oil firm
- First Bulgarian mineral oil factory opens in Turkey
- MOL increases stocks at natural gas storage facilities
- UES and E.ON sign cooperation agreement
- Airtricity sets up windfarm in
Scotland
- Shell to acquire 33 petrol stations from Total in Czech Republic
- International Petrol Exchange goes digital
- Scottish & Southern Energy takes control of Isle of Grain power station
- DONG withdraws offer for NESA after Elsam makes bid
- Shell’s gas import deal with Norway saves 5,000 jobs
- E.ON completes takeover of JME and JCE power distributors
- Ramco raises funds for extension of gas search
- A.P. Moeller strikes deal for future North Sea oil revenues
- Romgaz and Wintershall to produce Romanian gas by year-end
- MOL seeks to double market capitalization
- MOL and Slovnaft to integrate management teams
- Iberdrola to take over from ENI in Medgaz
consortium
- Marathon produces first gas and condensate from Braemar field
- Dana Petroleum’s operating profits rise nine-fold
- Scottish & Southern Energy considers bidding for NGT gas assets
- ENI sells Medgaz stake to Iberdrola
- Denmark agrees to oil concession deal with Moeller-Maersk
- Wintershall and Romgaz sign gas production agreement
- Norway will not support OPEC
- USTDA funds underground gas storage facility in Romania
- LUKoil acquires 79.5 % of shares in Beopetrol
- Talisman prepares for stake in giant Scottish offshore windfarm
- Deutsche BP calls for greater competition on German gas market
- Faroe Petroleum looks beyond result loss
- PGNiG comments on new planned pipeline in western Poland
- Shell to do whatever necessary to prevent repeat of gas rig deaths
- Total holds positive view of oil resources future
- Norsk Hydro suggests changes in processes to boost production
- Norsk Hydro starts oil production from Grane field
- Petrom to adjust facilities in line with EU standards
- Motor Oil Hellas to upgrade Corinth refinery
- Offshore wind farms are picturesque in Denmark
- Akzo, Gastransport Services and Nuon to set up gas storage facility
- TotalFinaElf changes name to Total E&P
- Statoil chairman resigns amid bribery scandal
- Activist urge against Premier Oil’s Burma payout
- Medgaz
postpones decision regarding Iberdrola
- TNK-BP lodges letter of intent for Romania’ Petrom
- Statoil, Lurgi and Borealis to make plastic from natural gas
- DONG unveils new technological solutions for oil
- Statoil to immediately cancel consultancy contract in relation to Iran
- Five firms bid for crude oil acreages in Romania
- Statoil board backs CEO despite criticism of Iran consultancy deal
- More than 600 contractors walk out in oil safety protest
- Those who owns Petrom have a great say in Romania’s economy
- Iran dismisses allegations that Statoil bribed oil officials
- Centrica forms joint venture to acquire offshore windfarm company
- Enel plans IPO of power grid
- Firms agree to build new Denmark-The Netherlands gas pipeline
- Total sees oil field future based on technology
- Aker Kvaerner to support BP’s oil development in Shetland
- Statoil to deliver LNG for US
- Fortum splitting into an energy utility and an oil business
- Gazprom ready to cooperate with Bulgarian partners
- DONG bids for Danish power company NESA
- Anadarko, Maersk and Talisman get approval for Norwegian shelf
- TNK-BP considers bid for Romanian Petrom
- Gazprom set to acquire stake in Lietuvos Dujos
- OMV, PKN Orlen and MOL may bid for Petrom
- Shell considers water injection development at Pierce field
- Odfjell saves 200 oil jobs in North
Sea
- Ireland's first offshore wind park construction under way
- CHC wins contract with Apache in North Sea
- Shell's commitment to biodiversity
- ABB continues effort to sell international holdings
- Scottish entrepreneur to drag up North Sea oil
- PKN Orlen to cut 4,000 jobs because of restructuring
- Wind farm to breathe new life into Scottish oil field
- Ingen to build a £ 100 mm terminal in Scotland for independent gas producers
- Shell and Gasunie to cooperate in gas consultancy
- BP executives at the top of pensions gusher
- Czech Venti to build 200 wind power plants
- Aton Capital questions LUKoil's expansion in Eastern Europe
- LUKoil wins
bid for Beopetrol
- Russia's expansion into the Turkish oil sector
- Kvaerner suffers heavy second-quarter loss
- Small utilities are filling Italy's generation gap
- Italy’s competition watchdog allows Enel to sell gas to ten cities
- Superior Energy acquires Premier Oilfield Services
- E.ON buys last 25.1 % stake in D-Gas
- Talisman wins new exploration blocks in UK North Sea
- ABB prepares to sell unit to J.P. Morgan consortium
- Statoil drills for new gas
- ENI fails to strike oil off Faroe Islands
- Repsol-YPF experiences explosion at refinery
- UK offshore licence awards attract new players
- Gazprom may increase participation in Verbundnetz
Gas
- OMV and Yukos to build pipeline from Russia to Austria
- EnBW urges customers to go easy on energy use
- Petro-Logistics is very well connected in the gulf and the Black Sea
- Analysts explain Gazprom's increase in gas supplies to Europe
- Gazprom increases gas exports to Europe
- Ukraine to start sending oil to Poland in autumn
- Petrom’s privatisation to be postponed
- Endesa, Iberdrola and Union Fenosa sign deals for gas supply
- UK and Dutch grids finish survey for cross-channel link
- BG wins key blocks in 21st UK licensing round
- Second Morocco-Spain interconnector planned
- MOL buys Shell’s gas stations in Romania
- Dana Petroleum wins
five licenses in UK’s 21st licensing round
- Big energy firms consider ventures in UK
- Norway names companies for blocks in Norwegian Sea
- Centrica forced to increase competition
- Tullow wins North Sea licences
- Kerr-McGee wins three blocks in UK licensing round
- RasGas II to supply LNG to Endesa
- IBM wins contract from ABB Group for IT outsourcing
- EU reaches deal with Shell and ExxonMobil
- PowerGen dominates Britain's non-domestic gas market
- GE and Kvaerner sign subsea compression technology deal
- Energy Africa signs exploration deals for North Sea and Senegal
- EU approves BP's creation of joint venture with TNK
- MOL expands its
multinational reach
- Shell buys stake in Spanish wind farm
- EU to partially finance Romanian-Hungarian gas pipeline study
- EC urges Russia to respect law in prosecution probes of Yukos
- North Sea oil workers face redundancy after Global Santa Fe pulls out
- Statoil eyes gas-powered growth
- Shell Gas Romania decreases share capital
- North Sea helicopter services wait for renewed regional activity
- General Electric breaks ground on research centre in Germany
- Tullow Oil buys stake in Thames gas fields from ENI
- TransGas to be run by executive board
- Chevron to sell North Sea stakes
- Norwegian-flagged oil exploration ship comes to Turkey
- Poland wants an honest share in Iraq’s oil fields
- Enel submits bid for Romanian power distributors
- ENI begins construction of its biggest power plant
- Endesa supplies green energy to its clients in Europe
- Turkey confident in finding oil beds in Black Sea
- DONG buys stakes in Norwegian oil and gas licenses
- MOL offers high pay for stake in INA
- Premier to revive exploration activity in North Sea
- Amec wins stake of Shell North Sea contract
- Amity Oil to speed up development of Turkish gas wells
- Danish authorities clear Statoil Gazelle gas venture
- BG to grow natural gas production in North Sea this year
- MOL and TVK sign power supply deal with
E.ON
- TGS-Nopec unveils seismic data for Greenland's 2004 licensing round
- Gazprom to increase gas supplies to Europe
- Tupras to buy oil from Iran
- Japan Steel buys stake in Icelandic geothermal power venture
- PowerGen to join talks over Gazprom’s northern European pipeline plan
- Yukos signs supply deal with MOL
- MOL signs electricity supply contract with E.ON
- MOL receives loan facility
- GdF and Gazprom conclude framework agreement
- Statoil uses new technology to boost recovery
- Gazprom takes Turkey to court over Blue Stream pipeline
- Gas Natural faces new challenges
- Turkey's energy disputes
- BP and TNK sign
deal to create joint energy venture
- GdF hopes to pick up shares in VNG
- BP and Shell support voluntary code of conduct on payment transparency
- Eurelectric welcomes adoption of energy market liberalisation package
- Oil giants may reduce costs on refining and spend more on exploration
- ENI interested in Russia's oil and gas market
- UK energy market competition in danger of failing
- TUI sells remaining energy business to Gaz de France
- ENI gets approval for purchase of Union Fenosa Gas
- Statoil to purchase North Sea production licenses from ExxonMobil
- ECC clears forming of Austrian power trading grouping
- Bulgaria set to sell stakes in state-owned distribution utilities
- Gazprom releases plans on exports to UK
- GE and Airtricity to build wind farm in Irish Sea
- Portugal approves third phase of Galp privatisation
- OMV completes acquisition of international Preussag assets
- Gazprom's Northern European pipeline could be implemented shortly
- Medgaz unveils cost of Europe-Algeria pipeline
- Hungary to sell stake in MOL
- Oil giants oppose disclosure of dealings with oil-exporting countries
- BP plans expansion on German natural gas market
- Azeri oil to increase competition on Mediterranean market
- Gazprom schemes undersea gas pipeline from St Petersburg to Bacton
- Gaz de France purchases stake in Italcogim
- Romania seeks
strategic long-term investor
- Ruhrgas acquires stake in Norwegian gas field from ConocoPhillips
- First part of merger deal between ELPE and Petrola to be materialized
- Gazprom to build Baltic-UK gas export line by 2010
- Gas Natural qualifies for second phase of Greek gas privatisation
- DONG takes over 20 % of Norwegian gas license
- Sainsbury's and Shell sign convenience store deal
- Shell to expand its natural-gas operations
- BP believes oil and gas will dominate for decades
- BP agrees to buy gas from Oman
- Ukraine forwards draft contract to Russia and Germany
- NIOC-BP North Sea gas deal could help BP in Iranian market
- Iranian Oil Company to join BP to develop North
Sea gas field
- Iran encourages direct investment from Norwegian companies
- Seven firms apply to build new Irish power plant
- Ramco and Hellenic Petroleum announce partnership for Montenegro
- RWE acquires final stakes for Thyssengas
- Italian grid opens up
- National Iranian Oil Company to join BP in North Sea gas field
- PKN Orlen and Czech Agrofert sign letter of intent
- Venture acquires stake in ConocoPhillips’ UK North Sea gas field
- EnBW subsidiary and ENI to build German gas pipeline
- Firms interested to build new generating capacity for Ireland
- Chemostrat has quietly become key player in global oil industry
- Unipetrol to start-up new ethyl benzene unit
- GE Oil & Gas to supply compression units for Snam Rete Gas
- Eesti Gaas celebrates 10 years as public limited company
- Independents make their move into the North Sea
- Scottish and Southern Energy plans Irish CCGT by 2006
- Fortum wins award for new clean fuels technology
- Marathon sells production interests in The Netherlands
- Ruhrgas reports on higher export rates last year
- Spain approves Gas Natural's construction of Arrubal power plant
- Kvaerner to turn Aberdeen into centre for subsea control
- ERG plans to invest EUR 460 mm in refining and power
- Ruhrgas publishes information about gas release program
- UK firms lead battle for control of new global gas industry
- UK encourages British firms to invest in Iranian petrochemical sector
- Investor group urges transparency on oil deals
- Talisman acquires North Sea field from BP Norge
- Norsk Hydro receives green light for Oseberg J oilfield
- Shell starts grid technology project with IBM
- Britain most favoured by firms for new ventures in 2003
- Norsk Hydro to sell stake in license to Gaz de France
- EU court rules against "golden shares"
- LUKoil continues talks for privatisation of Polish oil refinery
- Norwegian grid plans subsea power cable to UK
- Venture Production and Dana Petroleum buy North Sea oilfields
- Romania seeks gas deal with Gazprom
- Wales to receive up
to 29 bn cmpy of LNG by end of decade
- Hitachi acquires Babcock Borsig Power Systems
- Eneco Power requests postponement of Dutch gas liberalisation
- TotalFinaElf raises profits by 49 %
- A.P. Moeller to merge into A.P. Moeller-Maersk
- Putin satisfied with progress of Russian-Ukrainian-German consortium
- Advance of euro hurts TotalFinaElf's and ENI's earnings
- Shell Expro pays for Venture and Dana to take over North Sea oilfield
- Shell nearly doubles first-quarter profits
- Swiss/Austrian grid agreement offers advantages for power trading
- Siemens buys Alstom's industrial turbines business
- Venture Production and Dana Petroleum team up
- Dutch regulator DTe outlines
priorities
- TotalFinaElf to develop North Sea gas field
- MOL to buy out remaining interest of Slovnaft
- Ramco wins license for North Celtic Sea basin
- Statoil quietly advertises its North Sea interests
- Gazprom wants to double European gas pipeline capacity
- EBRD wants to invest in gas transportation consortium
- Siemens buys Alstom’s industrial turbines business
- Norway to call on oil firms to cut gas leaks
- Alstom to cut jobs in power turbo-systems divisions
- BP’s Lord Browne believes there are tough times ahead
- Statoil to recover oil from tanker Prestige
- Gas Natural to install gas-fired plant in Barcelona
- EdF and Enel to discuss
collaboration and opening of energy markets
- Croatia’s INA protests privatisation of Serbian oil chain
- ExxonMobil takes big step towards building of Welsh terminal
- Statoil to boost Statfjord recovery with foam
- Bulgaria ties into Balkan oil project
- Oil majors shed unwanted North Sea acreage
- Vattenfall withdraws from UK trading services market
- UK to buy Russian gas and power
- Repsol-YPF to supply gas to Gas Natural
- Gas consumption outgrows electricity in Spain
- Statoil contracts WesternGeco for world’s first 4D Q-Reservoir survey
- TotalFinaElf takes on Shell-DEA petrol stations
- Repsol-YPF and BP sell unfinished power plant to Gas Natural
- BP, Shell, ExxonMobil and TotalFinaElf receive fines for price fixing
- MOL sells stake in Ddgaz
- Soco International sells joint venture stake to Gazprombank
- Kazakh E&P firm linked to UK fraud probe
- Statoil simplifies internal gas price calculation
- Shell to leave Sweden
- Oil industry promises new North Sea investment
- E.ON Energie plans expansion in Eastern Europe
- Anglo Siberian concludes deals with TotalFinaElf and Yukos
- Gaz de France secures Gazprom supplies
- Expro Group wins contract from Aker Kvaerner
- Croatia and Slovenia sign power delivery deal
- E.ON makes profit from selling Viterra property
- Bulgarian
tie-in for Balkan oil project gets delayed
- Ex-executive testifies against Elf Aquitaine
- Torishima starts sales of German wind power
- Total and Shell to exchange 243 service stations in Europe
- French competition body fines four oil companies for price collusion
- Croatian and Bosnian power industries sign cooperation agreement
- Enagas gets approval for fourth gas storage tank
- Norway grants North Sea exploration licences to nine firms
- UK and Norway negotiate gas-supply deal
- MOL completes acquisition of stake in Slovnaft
- China and Germany discuss wind power project in Hubei province
- Dana Petroleum to pursue more acquisitions
- Shell to cut 15 % of its global
exploration and production workforce
- Shell to sell stakes in seven small North Sea fields
- Norway to build Ormen Lange gas line smaller than planned
- UK grants £ 42 mm to four windfarms
- Gazprom might team up with Wintershall to buy VNG shares
- Shell’s cost-savings plan to focus on upstream unit
- RWE DEA to concentrate on gas exploration
- Shell identifies UK oil and gas assets for sale
- Iberdrola approaches E.ON about counterbid against Gas Natural
- UK-Belgium gas pipeline to double reverse flow
- France draws up plans to win reconstruction contracts in Iraq
- Iberdrola to build Enron's planned power plant in Cadiz
- ConocoPhillips to invest in new platform in Ekofisk
sector
- MOL may acquire majority stake in Slovnaft
- Wind power plants to be built in Czech Republic
- ConocoPhillips to increase recovery rate from Norwegian North Sea
- Scottish and Southern Energy and Weir Group form joint venture
- Councils and members vote for IP and InstE merger
- Privatisation process of INA to be extended till end-June
- Ormen Lange group awards FEED contract to Aker Kvaerner
- Gas Natural ready to sell operations to acquire Iberdrola
- North American independent oil firms expected to move into North Sea
- Statoil interested in opportunities for Norwegian Sea areas
- Edison to sell two Italian gas and power networks
- Poland seeks bidders for major
energy generator Dolna Odra
- Spain approves Bilbao LNG terminal expansion project
- Shell expected to cut hundreds of North Sea jobs
- UK approves offshore wind farm
- PGNiG to increase natural gas output
- OMV purchases Avanti's 141 filling-station network
- Canadian Natural Resources increases UK offshore assets
- Poland negotiates sale of its stake in PAK
- Spain to guarantee competitiveness in energy sector
- PowerGen to build UK's biggest wind turbines in north-east
- Gas Natural launches takeover bid for Iberdrola
- Spain approves Endesa power plant construction
- France keen to join Ukrainian gas project
- Romania to revive Petrom
privatisation
- Italian regulators investigate Enel and ENI’s market dominance
- Statoil considers issuing new shares
- Tullow Oil swaps Southern Gas Basin Block with Shell
- Statoil forms joint venture with Danish gas company
- MOL anticipates gas rationing unlikely in Hungary
- UKOOA announces new shape of organization
- Enel replaces Entergy in Bulgarian joint venture
- Centrica expects real opportunities for expansion on French markets
- Ruhrgas to become partner of Gazprom in pipeline project
- Gazprom declines to bid for stake in Lietuvos Dujos
- LUKoil to acquire PFPG Energy
- Reliant to sell Dutch power business to Nuon
- Shell does not believeoil and gas business is a sunset industry
- Albania boosts oil production
- Gazprom signs up to trade at Zeebrugge gas hub
- TotalFinaElf plans for EUR 8.7 bn in capital expenditure for 2003
- Rosneft sees Croatian port as main interest to help US oil shipments
- BP sells interests in 14 North Sea natural gas fields
- OMV buys Aral chain in Hungary
- Poland cuts its dependence on Russian gas
- Serbia negotiates regular natural gas supply deal with Gazprom
- BP to invest $ 20 bn in five new oil fields
- Dana Petroleum keen to buy North Sea assets
- BP puts its faith in Russia
- BP announces further investment plan
- BP CEO comments on profit
centres
- Danish Elsam produces wind electricity in Poland
- BP sells stakes in European operations to OMV
- OMV to buy Preussag's international assets
- AMEC wins multi-million oil and telecoms contracts
- Oil majors are departing the North Sea
- Italy's liberalised gas market ignites international interest
- Shell to offload mature North Sea assets as profits fall
- Shell gets approval for development of North Sea Carrack gas field
- Aker Kvaerner Rosenborg loses bid for Snoehvit contract
- Gazprom to sign new gas accord with Bulgaria
- Yukos to create network of gas stations in Baltic republics
- LUKoil to participate in privatisation of Hellenic Petroleum
- Shell believes social performance is vital to industry's future success
- Statoil forecasts on 2003 daily output
- Bulgaria signs major oil and gas deal with Anschutz
- Norway gives approval for Ringhorne pipeline to ExxonMobil
- SDC approves Agip’s purchase of 130 Spanish petrol stations
- First part of Yamal-Europe gas pipe expected to be complete by 2006
- EU to examine Austrian utility merger
- Latvia turns to EU for help in resolving oil impasse with Russia
- German firms keen on oil and gas investment in Egypt
- Enagas plans to hold stakes in all major gas infrastructure projects
- Gazprom chairman to pay working visit to Bulgaria
- Fortum and E.ON swap assets worth nearly EUR 800
mm
- Germany clears E.ON-Ruhrgas deal
- More British companies keen on energy cooperation with Azerbaijan
- Global Insight expects E.ON/Ruhrgas merger to catalyse further alliances
- ENI remains keen on mid-sized acquisitions
- Spain to solve electricity supply problems with wind
- BP’s environmental policy saves $ 600 mm
- Gas Natural to acquire Repsol-YPF and BP's power plant project
- Ormen Lange gas partners decide for new pipeline to UK
- Statoil sells LPG to Japanese and Chinese customers from Kaarstoe
- Gas Natural and Tractebel to grow closer ties
- Australia's Carpathian to form joint venture with Czech firm
- Nuon set to enter UK electricity market
- Amec deal to have huge implications for selling North Sea expertise
- RWE believes Germany needs consistent energy guidelines
- BP sells assets in Britain and US
- Ofgem urges firms to rewire UK for clean energy
- Landmark Graphics signs drilling technology deal with Statoil
- Bosnian oil pricing accord may pave way for economic progress
- Britain approves Petro-Canada’s Clapham project
- TUI sells holdings of Preussag Energie to Gaz de France
- CEZ to build new power stations in North Bohemia
- Belarus completes section of Yamal-Europe gas pipeline
- Poland and Russia agree on gas supplies for January 2003
- Alfa Group sells Prestige charter company
- Gazpromcompletes Yamal-Europe pipeline
- BP to sell underperforming oil and gas assets
- Russia signs deal for first Mediterranean oil terminal
- Court upholds Ruhrgas-E.ON merger injunction
- ABB signs credit facility to cover liquidity needs
- Ormen Lange License participants select subsea production concept
- Snoehvit development project remains viable
- EC clears EnBW-ENI acquisition of Germany's GVS
- Statoil sells tanker business to Teekay Shipping
- Future of North Sea to be increasingly characterised by small firms
- Paladin to acquire North Sea assets from BP and Amerada Hess
- BP sells German service stations to PKN Orlen
- LUKoil to increase liquefied gas supplies to
Poland
- The UK and its growing gas-import market
- Norway puts new gas regime in place
- Statoil acquires UK gas storage development rights
- Gazprom and Europolgas discuss construction of gas-pipeline
- Snoehvit gas field to face considerable budget overrun
- Fortum to double size of its Nordic electricity operations
- ENI buys stake in Union Fenosa
- Landmark case opens way for wind energy expansion
- BP and ChevronTexaco launch new Dutch wind farm project
- EdF officially opens Ujpest power station in Hungary
- Gazprom to realize swap operation with Norsk Hydro
- Europe is getting interested in Baltic Sea pipeline
- RWE Gas unveils master plan for
Czech gas industry
- Bulgargaz to cooperate in Turkey-Austria pipeline study
- Gazprom plans pipeline to Western Europe
- Tyumen Oil becomes benefactor of Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- Centrica to expand into Spanish electricity market next year
- Algeria plans major rise in gas export to EU
- North Sea gas field turns out to be gem for ConocoPhillips
- OMV farms into ChevronTexaco’s west of Shetland license
- Cepsa enters long-term gas deal with Sonatrach
- Scottish & Southern Energy's purchase receives regulatory approval
- Stork to renovate NAM’s Groningen gas field
- Irish power grid warns of electricity shortages
- Petrom to expand in Romania
- LUKoil to triple investment in Balkans
- Union Fenosa signs supply agreement with Oman LNG
- Gazprom to boost spot gas sales to Britain and Belgium
- BG Group receives approval for LNG terminal in Italy
- Russia and Norway to strengthen cooperation in energy production
- Norway rejects Statoil’s plans for Barents Sea
- Gaz de France buys RWE power trading unit
- Collapse of TXU Europe threatens related power traders
- Fugro completes 3D survey of North Sea
- Gazprom and Ruhrgas discuss Northern European gas pipeline project
- Minister opens Scotland's most powerful wind farm
- GE to acquire Austrian Jenbacher
- Bulgaria to close down Kosloduy power reactors by2006
- Gas Natural sells first gas to Enel subsidiary
- Ruhrgas acquires Fortum Petroleum
- French court investigates into Elf oil scandal
- Ukraine and Russia to invite European firms into gas consortium
- Poland cancels privatisation tenders for heat and power plants
- Western European market attracts Russian oil producers
- Third power line between Vyborg and Finland to be in use soon
- Irish government gives go-ahead to Seven Heads gas field
- Centrica to secure its own gas storage facility
- Gazprom considers cooperation with Statoil and Norsk Hydro
- Tractebel secures LNG supplies from Oman
- Britain approves Blake Flank oil development in North Sea
- E.ON to merge three subsidiaries
- LUKoil to triple investment in south-eastern Europe
- Gazprom to boost spot gas sales to Britain and Belgium
- Bulgargaz needs to be restructured in 2004
- ENI acquires Fortum's oil and gas arm
- MOL increases stake in Slovak oil giant
- Oman LNG and Union Fenosa Gas sign major gas deal
- UK's trade and industry department clears Wintershall-Clyde deal
- Bulgaria, Greece and Russia to sign oil pipeline cooperation deal
- Fortum seeks investors for Baltic gas pipeline
- InterGen completes deal of Rijnmond Energie Center
- E.ON's Thuga wins tender for stake in Ulm utility
- ABB to sell off its oil and gas division in
Norway
- Norway expects Arctic opening for oil and gas exploration
- Russia and Norway to strengthen cooperation on energy production
- KWI and Accenture to assist MVM with Hungarian power liberalisation
- BG wins approval for development of North Sea field
- EU to support Russia-Germany gas pipeline
- OMV to upgrade Austrian refinery
- Electrabel to acquire Gamesa wind farms in Portugal
- Gazprom hopes to solve gas dispute with EU
- OMV plans to spend $ 1 bn on acquisitions in near future
- Shell's data-mining project is a success
- ABB takes radical action to cut costs and reduce its debts
- Low Russian gas prices threaten exports to Europe
- Iberdrola to stick to investment plan for new power stations
- Scottish Power and Scottish & Southern Energy consider merger
- Norway's offshore fabrication industry experiences dry season
- Major development beckons on Norwegian Shelf
- Snoehvit gas to find its way into US
- Statoil not allowed to explore for oil and gas in Barents Sea
- OMV to invest in Bulgarian sector of Black Sea
- German energy users reveal increasing level of customer switching
- ENI to further expand natural gas activities in Germany
- Fortum plans sale of energy assets
- Endesa to delay construction of new power plants
- Oman LNG sells six cargoes to TotalFinaElf for western markets
- Gazprom and Gasunie to participate in north-European gas pipeline
- E2 buys wind farm assets in Spain
- Marathon to develop subsea gas well in Ireland
- Statoil buys access to American gas market
- Shell warns that oil market could get tougher
- Romania wants new owners to make major investments in power companies
- Poland outlines privatisation plans for energy industry
- Iran stores 2 mm barrels of oil in Europe because of war fears
- Gazprom officially recognised as potential buyer of Lietuvos Dujos
- LLP Budapest signs international deal with Shell Gas unit
- Pipeline to Europe: Can Nigeria join the party?
- Statoil uses new method of oil and gas detection
- ABB unveils cost-cutting plan
- ABB seeks to divest its oil, gas and petrochemicals division
- UK electricity market situation is not as bad as it looks
- French company to be first to use Libyan gas
- Repsol-YPF, Woodside and RWE to take on Canary Islands project
- US energy traders retreat from European markets
- Statoil to acquire more gas stations in Baltic countries
- Norway approves Visund development plans
- Norway to build gas pipe to Stavanger region
- LUKoil, Yukos and Tatneft interested in BP’s German gas-station network
- Russians active on European energy market
- Crisis threatens entire UK electricity industry
- TXU sells power-generation unit toE.ON
- OMV bids for BP's Aral petrol stations in southern Germany
- Enagas to bolster delivery infrastructure
- ENI and Gazprom complete Blue Stream gas pipeline
- PowerGen buys out its share in Abbot Group
- BP to sell Cyprus business assets to Hellenic Petroleum
- RWE-DEA farms into disputed blocks between Canary Islands and Morocco
- OMV to drill wildcat offshore Albania
- Siemens to upgrade turbines in US and Sweden power plants
- France turns down request by EdF to increase tariffs
- Italy to cut price of electricity and gas bills by 5 %
- TXU Energy acquires energy retailer Forbrukerkraft
- Banks face billions in losses from British energy crisis
- PowerGen emerges as eager buyer of TXU Energi
- CSFB and ING Barings to advise in privatisation of Petrom
- RWE Gas to sell stake in MND to Europgas
- ExxonMobil confirms EC investigation for price fixing of asphalt
- EnCana to drill in Greenland with Nunaoil
- ILF to assess infrastructure projects in Bulgaria
- Wintershall acquires Clyde Netherlands from ConocoPhillips
- Turkey plans sale of Tupras
- Statoil tightens control of Snoehvit gas project after cost overrun
- TotalFinaElf to upgrade Donges refinery
- ABB wins order from Statoil for subsea system in Barents sea
- Statoil studies export of geothermal power from Iceland
- Dragados wins contract from
Statoil for Kristin production platform
- Fenosa seeks strategic partner for three power plants
- French government relinquishes share in Elf Aquitaine
- Norway’s offshore suppliers lose ground to international competitors
- Carpathian Resources to bring Czech oil field into production
- Shell Chemicals restates commitment plans for Basell
- Poland revises oil sector privatisation strategy
- Statoil to expand Kaarstoe treatment complex
- Ukraine, Russia and Germany set up gas consortium commission
- Norway approves Norsk Hydro's Visund development plan
- Iberdrola to invest $ 1.38 bn in three power facilities
- Czech government to launch new tender to privatise Unipetrol
- BP
lowers growth target
- Iberdrola forms strategic alliance with Gamesa
- Polish gas company sees delay in long-term supply deal with Norway
- EC asks Spain and Italy about investment voting rights
- E.ON in talks with six banks for credit line
- Dana Petroleum sees strong production growth in North Sea
- RasGas and ENI sign LNG supply deal
- TXU hoists white flag over European operation
- TotalFinaElf's Otter oil field in UK North Sea starts production
- Antitrust regulator to take on EdF over allegations of unfair competition
- Gaz de France finalises supply deal with Egyptian LNG
- ENI signs deal with RasGas to supply gas to Spanish market
- BP has world’s first fuel station
running on renewable sources
- Crisis in UK electricity market causes problems for TXU
- Rolls-Royce wins order to upgrade international gas pipeline
- TotalFinaElf and ENI bid for stake in Greek gas firm Depa
- German utilities form joint energy services company
- BASF and Sasol acquire stake in German pipeline company
- BP's clean fuels initiative
- Preparations for Spain-Algeria gas pipeline ready
- PowerGen plans easier and cheaper power for UK households
- Rival operators advance plans for Dutch-German gas trading hub
- Esso Norge signs contract with Coflexip Stena Offshore
- Petkim looks for strategic partner
- Vestas Wind Systems wins new wind turbine order in
Germany
- The Netherlands approve development of gas fields in Waddenzee
- BHP Billiton to search seabed between Wales and Ireland
- Coflexip Stena Offshore wins contract from Marathon Oil
- Joint-industry research project to study gas transport technologies
- Foster Wheeler wins contract from Kuwait Petroleum Europoort
- Statoil runs over budget with Snoehvit gas field
- Shell believes Europe and Asia are opening up to LNG
- Foster Wheeler wins power plant contract in Ireland
- European Bank to finance Albanian energy project
- Statoil sends first methanol shipment to Canada
- Rolls-Royce celebrates 400th offshore vessel design sale
- Premier Oil enters four new exploration
ventures
- Premier Oil to cancel Amerada Hess and Petronas shareholdings
- Shell urges UK government to support renewable energy
- Dynegy to sell North Sea gas-storage business
- TGS-Nopec believes Latvian excavation could take long time
- ScottishPower signs green energy supply deal with IBM
- EU clears agreements between EdF Trading and Wingas
- Cepsa deepens ties with Sonatrach
- NRG to sell Hungarian and Czech assets to Atel
- LUKoil’s bid for Rafineria Gdanska may be in jeopardy
- Izar launches gas transport ship for Knutsen Oas
- Shell plans for floating LNG vessel
- Agrofert wants to renegotiate Unipetrol bid
- Cepsa, Repsol-YPF and BP sell
another stake of CLH
- Portugal issues additional terms for deepwater licensing round
- Israel Corp interested in acquiring Montenegran oil firm
- Enel to build new wind farms
- TotalFinaElf plans Italian Tempa Rossa development
- E.ON receives approval to acquire Ruhrgas
- Shell believes use of fossil fuels will likely phase out before depletion
- UK exploration review
- France struggles with EdF privatisation
- Kerr-McGee optimises North Sea infrastructure
- Shell urges staff to promote corporate accountability
- Greece to privatise Public Gas Corporation
- Maersk signs oil search agreement with Shell and ExxonMobil
- RWE-DEA wins new concession to
drill for gas in North Sea
- Mitsui signs second charter contract for Snoehvit project
- LUKoil and Hellenic petroleum to establish joint venture in Balkans
- Fredriksen bets on LNG
- LUKoil set to take control of Gdansk refinery
- BP to promote new links across UK-Norway border
- Halliburton successfully installs trilateral well for Norsk Hydro
- Iberdrola to invest EUR 446 mm in Madrid region
- Is there oil in the Faroes?
- Statoil wants closer collaboration between Norway and Russia
- Statoil looks to Russia for more Barents Sea development
- North Sea oil industry faces high platform disposal costs
- Yukos acquires Mazheikiu Nafta refinery in Lithuania
- Keppel completes acquisition of Verolme shipyard
- ENEL to switch power plants to coal
- Tomen receives loan for Spanish wind power project
- Iberdrola constructs combined cycle power plant in Cadiz
- Kerr-McGee sells interests in North Sea assets
- UK exploration review
- French government selects privatisation banks
- E.ON receives exclusive negotiation rights for Polish G8-group
- Rosneftegaz acquires White Nights from Ina
- Albania to import electric energy from Bulgaria
- German power producers to build four new power plants
- Gasunie might install second UK-Europe gas link by 2005
- Centrica purchases Electricity Direct
- Statoil in stronger financial position
- EU to accept commitments offered by Norwegian gas producers
- BP and Shell disagree on how to prevent oil manipulation
- Poland to assess risk of Russian investment in oil sector
- Turkey to sign deal for first gas storage unit
- Yukos and Williams to privatise Mazheikiu Nafta
- Fluor wins clean fuels project from OMV Austria
- Edinburgh Oil & Gas wins new UK offshore licence
- TGS-NOPEC acquires new data in West Greenland
- Iberdrola sells electricity transmission assets to CVC Capital
- Siemens to upgrade power plant turbines in US and Sweden
- Tractebel takes over charter of Enron LNG carrier
- Oilexco wins three
licences in UK North Sea
- British law gets tough after Enron case
- Shell firmly committed to integrate sustainable development
- E.ON raises stake in Thuega
- Statoil in stronger financial position for acquisitions
- Spanish power demand rises
- LUKoil to boost petrol stations network in Central and Eastern Europe
- Tomen secures loan for wind power project in Spain
- Sibneft seeks alternatives for oil supplies to Europe
- Statoil forecasts on capex and production estimate
- Golar LNG signs charter extension with BG Group
- Enelpower seeks project financing from IDB and BNDES
- New Spanish legislation to force energy groups to reserve gas
- EdF and
GdF take stake in two Polish power plants
- NAM and Enventure install SET system in Dutch well
- Shell acquires RWE share in Shell & DEA Oil joint venture
- Gazprom turns to Europe
- Botas revises down projections for natural gas demand
- Lord Browne to be leading BP for six more years
- Technip-Coflexip sells McNulty's UK construction yard
- Veritas withdraws offer for merger with Petroleum Geo-Services
- MOL sells drilling subsidiary to INA unit
- New Russian oil terminal would double petroleum transport in Gulf of Finland
- Eesti Energia plans Eurobond sale
- German court puts brakes on E.ON’s takeover of Ruhrgas
- INA sale offers opportunity to break into fast-growing Balkan
market
- Statoil and Norsk Hydro must sell 15 bn cm gas to new EU clients
- Statoil to start development of satellite to Sleipner West field
- Repsol-YPF and Galp Energia to sign agreement
- Russian oil companies compete for Baltic port transit rights
- Ofgem threatens Transco with more layers of regulation
- UK utilities are feeling the restructuring squeeze
- Saipem completes acquisition of majority stake in Bouygues Offshore
- New UK windfarm offers environmental benefits
- Visund field partners to pipe gas to Statoil's Kollsnes gas plant
- Denmark’s Nini and Cecilie oil fields to be developed
- ENI strengthens position as number one in Mediterranean
- LUKoil still in INA
bidding race
- INA and ENI to continue drilling for gas in north Adriatic
- TotalFinaElf gets development approval for Norwegian Sea fields
- Talisman and Amerada Hess start production from North Sea field
- Sasol opens facility in The Netherlands
- Shell to redeem Enterprise Oil debt
- EU clears BP's acquisition of remaining Veba Oel stake
- CEZ largest Czech electric power producer in 2001
- Cal Dive to acquire Technip-Coflexip's subsea well operations
- Lundin Petroleum agrees to buy Coparex International
- Russia, Ukraine and Germany to set up gas transit consortium
- Centrica acquires interest in Regional Power Generators
- Slovakia to start part-privatisation of power
concern
- EnBW and ENI take control of German gas supplier GVS
- Endesa ends negotiations with NRE and REMU
- Union Fenosa and Endesa may delay investments
- Estonia to modernize power stations with foreign loan
- MOL and Transneft sign oil transit agreement
- Norwegian oil companies sign deal to cut back on pollution
- Troll platform to receive new technology
- BP acquires 5 % of Enagas
- Statoil and Norsk Hydro wait until last minute to close taps
- Exxon and Qatar Petroleum sign agreement on UK LNG supply
- Dutch competition regulator fines Texaco for price-fixing
- Centrica signs contract with Gasunie
- RTE selects 19 companies for network
supply
- UK?s Ofgem to undertake environmental research
- ENI and ENBW to buy GVS
- Britain buys Dutch gas
- Gazprom to boost exports to Europe
- The sun is still rising on depleted North Sea oil wealth
- Norwegian shelf operators team up to tackle emissions
- Merger between Veritas and Petroleum Geo-Services moves closer
- Malta abandons exploratory oil well
- BP analysis
- BP no longer a British company?
- Lundin Petroleum to acquire Coparex International
- LUKoil buys Cyprus petrol stations from BP and ExxonMobil
- Big Buzzard is a rare bird in North Sea oil
- Gas Natural sets price for Enagas at EUR 1.8 bn
- UK?s Ofgem to introduce tough new enforcement process for rogue sales
- Yukos and Williams sign deal for Mazheikiu Nafta stake
- General Electric to acquire Euro-Diesel
- BP believes nations should not be concerned about energy security
- Conoco and Aker Kvaerner establish DeepWater Composites
- EdF to acquire AEP utility
- Statoil to begin selling methanol to US and Canada
- Lithuania set to sign oil refinery deal
- Preussag considers sale of non-core oil and gas business
- Ten offers submitted for privatisation of Croatia's INA
- Talisman launches study into North Sea wind farm
- Italenergia agrees to loan for Edison unit
- EdF agrees to new Italenergia
structure with Fiat
- Endesa and Cepsa to lead gas business on Canary islands
- Greenland enjoys licensing round interest
- Norsk Hydro blocked from making share offering
- Statoil takes 32 % stake in two Snoehvit gas carrier joint ventures
- Serbia signs pipeline contract with Slavia International
- BG to invest in exploration of Spain's Ebro Delta
- Norway awards licence offers to eleven companies
- About TransGas
- Poland offers majority stake in Ostroleka power plant
- Europe power market still waiting for Enron successor
- TransGas sold to RWE Gas
- CEZ will not merge with electric power distributors
- Marubeni to proceed with UK North Sea
project
- Kawasaki Kisen to work for Snoehvit project
- International group to build Bosnian gas pipeline
- American Electric Power to double presence in France
- Statoil signs deal to supply gas to UK over 10 years
- Serbian oil and gas monopoly wants five year state protection
- Shell and partners to commercialise new fuel cell technology
- About Transco
- EU approves Slovakia sale of SPP gas
- Statoil signs new Snoehvit deal
- Vale gas condensate field comes on stream
- Shell believes oil refiners can make clean hydrogen too
- OMV to acquire Czech petrol station network
- Petrohemija to offer Serbia debt-for-equity swap
- Energi E2 buys Cinergy?s Spanish unit
- Gazprom studies gas exports to Italy via Balkans
- OMV buys stakes in three UK oil exploration blocks
- Statoil forms company to support Snoehvit development
- MOL offers bid for Croatia?s INA
- Oman to supply LNG to Union Fenosa Gas
- LUKoil to invest substantially in Bulgaria
- BP to shed 800 jobs in North Sea operations
- Shell?s floating gas-to-liquids technology unlocks difficult reserves
- Bidders are lining up for INA stake
- Moneypoint to become major wind farm site
- Nippon Mitsubishi Oil gets rights to North Sea oil fields
- German power sector sales show first increase in 6 years
- E.ON to sell its remaining stake in Veba Oel to BP
- Kvaerner, Statkraft and Shell to develop new fuel cell technology
- Troubled US energy companies pull out of Europe
- Polish Power Grid to solve market-distorting long-term power contracts
- Vattenfall to stay in Swedish hands
- Shell to build wind turbine park offshore Belgium
- Botas and OMV to explore to link natural gas transportation systems
- Turkey puts first power plants and electricity grids up for sale
- Norway to increase transmission capacity to Sweden
- Italenergia to raise EUR 4 bn for expansion in home market
- UKOOA protests new UK taxes
- UK approves 58.5 MW onshore wind farm in central Wales
- ENI and EnBW only bidders in German gas auction
- Horizon Energy and ACEA to build power plant in Italy
- German monopoly commission objects to E.ON-Ruhrgas deal
- RWE accepts conditions for acquisition of TransGas
- BG tells the best growth story in energy
- Lithuania approves gas company's share sale to German consortium
- TXU purchases majority stake in BVAG
- Oil companies move to tax havens to avoid UK national insurance
- BP to move ahead with five UK gas field developments
- EU regulators approve RWE purchase of Innogy
- German Citiworks launches power trading platform
- Shell, ESAG and Hess join German electricity exchange
- BP launches electricity
distribution in France
- Repsol-YPF confirms sale of gas shares in Gas Natural
- RWE now owns TransGas
- Ofgem offers power companies to get compensation
- Biovent Energia to invest in wind farm projects
- UK's Ofgem wants greater regulatory powers over offshore gas industry
- Czech government expects privatisation of CEZ in 2003
- Marathon to exploit UK gas demand with Norway pipeline
- Marathon sees need for 4 - 5 North Sea gas pipelines
- Alstom to sell Spanish assets
- TNK to supply oil to Western consumers
- Croatia announces tender for privatisation of INA
- TGS-NOPEC and WesternGeco in new 3D surveys in Norwegian waters
- TransGas incorporated
in RWE Gas
- Shell and Essent negotiate to form power and gas alliance
- UK's International Power to build new power plants in Italy
- UK North Sea operators prepare to invest in new technology
- Gazprom accounts for 35 % of Ruhrgas gas imports
- Iberdrola secures 4.1 % of Spanish gas market
- Repsol, Cepsa and BP sell CLH stake to China Aviation Oil
- Czech government agrees to power asset swap
- Czech Unipetrol to sell oil refinery to remaining shareholders
- British gas business cleans up contaminated sites
- Norsk Hydro to enter US market
- Ruhrgas needs E.ON takeover to fund expansion
- EU approves takeover of Enterprise Oil by Shell
- Petro-Canada completes most of Veba acquisition
- Statoil to sell Danish oil stakes to DONG
- E.ON widens gas base through local merger
- BP and Shell try to save Brent Crude benchmark
- Norway gas producers agree on pipeline ownership structure
- German gas industry signs new market access deal
- EU approves Edison-led acquisition of Eurogen
- Shell puts rivals in the shade
- Norwegian gas exporters agree to new ownership regime
- TXU to buy major stake in German utility
- Gas Natural to sell 65 % of Enagas this year
- Vopak to separate tank storage from chemical distribution
- Snam asks EU assistance on Sicilian gas tax
- Construction of Norwegian power plants delayed
- E.ON and RWE get green light to take control of Slovak utilities
- EU clears photovoltaic venture between Electrabel, TotalFinaElf and Imec
- Iberdrola speeds up plan for construction of power stations
- Britain shocks North Sea operators with new oil tax
- Russian groups to take stake in Sibir Energy
- EU clears TotalFinaElf acquisition of German oil trading operations
- Germany to appoint gas market regulator if industry can't agree
- Stiff competition for new Dutch gas platforms
- Shell wants to double Polish petrol stations
- UK oil and gas industry group optimistic in sector outlook
- Latvia announces repeat offshore licensing
round
- The environmental challenge -- A European business perspective
- Mid-Nordic gas pipeline to cost EUR 1 bn
- Gas Natural to invest EUR 5 bn by 2006
- E.ON buys majority stake in Hungarian power group
- Yukos chaiman sees Western take-over of Russian oil industry
- Austrian Verbund to announce power joint venture deal
- EdF chosen to take over Slovakia power distributor
- BP's North Sea investment
- E.ON to swap Degussa majority for RAG's Ruhrgas stake
- Azerbaijan expects first gas supply to Greece by 2006
- Statoil acquires stake in Atlantis
- Spain approves 800 MW power plant proposed by Union Fenosa
- Norway's Snoehvit project on
hold
- German utility to lease plant to US investors
- Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural to combine gas units
- BP sells 1,000 carbon credits to Imerys
- EdF looks to buy out Louis Dreyfus' stake
- National Grid to buy UK's gas distributor Lattice
- UK power and gas networks to merge
- John Wood Group plans to float £ 1 bn on London Stock Exchange
- Statoil acquires stake in Atlantis
- Acorn finds obstacles in obtaining licence for old North Sea oil field
- Ireland approves Enterprise Oil's Corrib gas development
- Endesa interested in electricity distribution alliances in Italy
- PGNiG and Gazprom to increase capital in joint venture
- Gaz de France buys
MidAmerican Energy UK exploration unit
- LUKoil invests in Romanian petrol stations
- Endesa to invest in Barcelona's electricity infrastructure
- Iberdrola wins Enron assets in Spain
- LUKoil is sole bidder for Hellenic petroleum stake
- Serbia's two refineries must modernise or close
- Gazprom, BASF and Wintershall to manage German gas supplies
- Gazprom to set up joint venture with Romgaz and Transgaz
- Amity Oil announces record gas flow in Turkey
- KazMunayGaz should give no cause for concern to the West
- Shell and ExxonMobil to split Dutch Gasunie trading operations
- The Netherlands to put consumer power and gas market opening forward
- Dutch state approves RWE's
acquisition of Obragas
- Tatneft signs oil export deal with Poland
- BP refining and marketing margins slide
- Gazprom discusses gas sector cooperation with Romania
- SABIC to acquire DSM's petrochemicals business
- GdF and TotalFinaElf intent on French gas distribution network
- E.ON-Ruhrgas consortium to buy stake in Lietuvos Dujos
- GdF to import nine LNG cargoes from Oman
- EdF suffers rising sales and debts and falling profits
- TotalFinaElf to pay France for pipeline transfer
- Shell's bid for Enterprise Oil received well in Iran
- Essent first to sign up for Gasunie's Eurohub venture
- Shell to acquire Enterprise Oil
- Ramco increases stake in
Irish gas field
- Shell wants to build up gas segment of its upstream portfolio
- Bulgaria not to open energy market to foreigners
- Researchers seek remote gas conversion technology
- Iberdrola signs agreement with Sonatrach
- NIS-GAS signs deal with Gazprom
- ABN Amro to enter OTC energy markets
- Oil companies halt work at Snoehvit gas field
- Gazprom finds export route through Slovakia
- UES and Eurelectric sign protocol on cooperation to unifie the energy systems
- ENI to sell North Sea assets to Dana Petroleum
- E.ON bid for stake in Lietuvos Dujos formally approved
- Conoco acquires additional interests in Norwegian gas fields
- TotalFinaElf andGdF acquire Norwegian assets
- Italian gas demand to rise 50 % in 10 years
- BP and ChevronTexaco establish wind farm in The Netherlands
- Slovakia to sell SPP stake to Gazprom, Ruhrgas and GdF
- Norsk Hydro acquires stakes in North Sea licences
- Turkey sells 16.5 % stake in Petrol Ofisi
- Gaz de France seeks loans for international growth
- Croatia approves partial privatisation of two strategic energy groups
- Norway sells oilfield stake
- Oil majors turn their backs on new Norwegian projects
- Atel acquires Italian power stations
- TGS-Nopec to start up new seismic survey offshore Germany
- Thirteen firms seek Norwegian Sea blocks
- Eurogen acceptsbid from Fiat-led consortium
- OMV expects oil and gas output to rise 65 % in 2002
- French authorities accuse Yukos of money laundering
- RWE Power to buy 25 % stake in Italy's Elettra
- Norwegians want more power plants in Norway
- Many large Spanish companies ignore liberalisation of power market
- Norsk Hydro's Ormen Lange gas field cheaper if developed offshore
- Gasunie's Dutch market share jumps up to 71 % in 2001
- Premier Oil announces restructuring
- North Sea oil firms unlikely to achieve long-term target
- Slovakia set to confirm gas deal with GdF, Ruhrgas and Gazprom
- Tractebel and SembCorp form marketing joint venture
- BP reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by
over 9 mm tons
- Customs office discovers biggest fuel laundering plant in Ireland
- Sonatrach signs gas deal with Iberdrola
- Norway approves Snoehvit natural gas project
- Amec and British Energy plan UK wind farm
- DUC reports on February North Sea oil output
- Turkey receives demand for Petrol Ofisi share offer
- Hellenic Petroleum signs deal with Tractebel and AEGEK
- TNK to ship oil to Serbia
- Shell set for rapid growth in wind power
- Russian oil companies to be main bidders for INA
- Electrabel eyes 25 % of Dutch market by 2007
- Gazprom-Ruhrgas-GdF consortium sole bidder for stake in SPP
- Norsk Hydro becomes market maker at Nord Pool
exchange
- Renewables UK to be set up in Aberdeen
- BG International to explore Mediterranean Sea offshore Spain
- TotalFinaElf starts gas production at Dutch K1A field
- PKN Orlen to inaugurate new crude and vacuum processing unit
- Edison to build power plant in Puglia region of Italy
- TXU purchases UK retail and trading business of Amerada Hess
- Williams pulls out of Slovak SPP tender
- Marathon to develop UK pipeline
- Serbia plans to revive its energy sector
- Cap Gemini launches European energy liberalisation research institute
- Statoil set to develop Arctic Snoehvit gas field
- Conoco prepares to sell North Sea assets
- IOC contemplates to
set up foreign trade desk in London
- Powernext adds E.ON and Gaselys to list of active traders
- Portugal delays IPO date for energy firm Galpenergia
- Slavneft and Siemens sign cooperation deal to retool Slavneft
- NAM to redevelop Groningen gas fields
- Repsol-YPF to integrate LPG facilities
- BG to start Spanish exploration
- Iberdrola has reservations on European acquisitions
- LUKoil and Yukos interested in European markets
- EdF drops objection to liberalisation
- ENI to exploit inaccessible gas fields
- North Sea Braemar gas field unlikely to go onstream this year
- RWE buys stake in Polish gas firm Kri
- ExxonMobil and Chevron consider
trans-Balkan pipeline
- Swedish Vattenfall to create third-biggest German energy company
- Botas receives EIB loan for gas storage
- MOL rejects foreign offers for gas unit
- UK energy regulator proposes Scottish power reform
- Repsol-YPF wins exploration licences for Catalan coast
- Enron Europe debt to be much higher than initial estimates
- Enterprise Oil and Innogy form European gas alliance
- Shell to launch green power sales in The Netherlands
- Statoil finds method for oil exploration without test drilling
- LUKoil to build gas stations in Poland
- Aker and Kvaerner merger becomes clearer
- BP and E.ON go ahead with Veba deal
- E.ON gains from
Veba/BP deal
- MOL intent on selling gas division
- OMV to increase capital spending to EUR 2.7 bn
- BG may explore for oil off Greenland
- Petro-Canada to acquire Veba Oil & Gas operations
- TNK and Slovenian Petrol sign deal
- Gazprom reaches agreement with NIS on gas supplies
- Endesa plans to invest EUR 14.5 bn in core energy business
- EU allows Endesa and Sonae to establish joint company
- Gazprom and Wintershall to cooperate in oil and gas extraction
- Northern Petroleum wins exploration permits in northern Spain
- UK to open North Sea exploration to smaller companies
- Kvaerner to open new umbilicals facility
- PSEG buys stake in Polish power
station
- Statoil hands over Greenland exploration license
- Shell paints two visions of future
- Serbia plans sale of Beopetrol fuel retailer
- Shell to acquire solar energy stakes from Siemens and E.ON
- Petroleum Geo-Services sells unit to Sinochem
- TotalFinaElf and RAG Saarberg to dissolve joint ventures
- German regulator rules against E.ON acquisition of Ruhrgas
- Conoco to build 730-MW combined heat and power plant in UK
- North Sea needs smaller and nimbler oil operators
- Shell to take over DEA gas stations in Poland
- Norwegian firms form new company to create regional gas market
- EBRD set to invest in Bulgarian power projects
- European
gas traders urge merger of gas trading hubs
- Gazprom to complete Yamal-Europe pipeline system
- Shell to not shy away from major acquisitions
- RWE and E.ON out of race for Slovak gas giant SPP
- Shell invites bids for Goldeneye
- Statoil's Asgard B back on stream
- Czech electricity trading launched as liberalization takes root
- ENI expects increase in exploration and power production
- Kvaerner units to become separate business areas
- Bulgaria liberalises energy market but keeps monopolies
- Bids for Czech power privatisation cancelled
- Drilling on the UKCS compares favourably with previous years.
- German companies in South Africa to build Turkish power plant
- Repsol-YPF to get clearance for oil exploration off Canary Islands
- UK energy regulator to allow debtors to switch supplier
- E.ON pulls out of Norway-Germany power line
- Algeria plans power export projects to Europe
- Petroleum Geo-Services signs agreement with Norsk Hydro
- AEP enters Nordic market
- Overview of oil output from Denmark's North Sea oil and gas fields
- Overview of Danish North Sea gas production
- Norsk Hydro cuts its 2002 oil and gas output estimates
- EU approves acquisition of Midlands Electricity
- Dutch Gasunie reports on 2001 gas sales
- RWE Gas wins TransGas tender
- Norway approves Phillips plan to scrap Ekofisk platforms
- RWE acquires Highland Energy
- Agrofert wins bid for stake in Unipetrol
- Germany approves BP and Shell gas deals
- Shell unveils new three-year plan
- European energy markets quickly recover from Enron collapse
- German power distributors and consumer association sign new deal
- Yukos wins Transpetrol privatisation tender
- UK gas trading makes strong start on ICE platform
- Yukos to increase oil volumes to Slovakia if it acquires Transpetrol
- LUKoil would like to see pipeline extended to Thessaloniki
- Slovakia recommends Yukos should buy Transpetrol stake
- Tyumen signs contract with Naftna Industria Serbia
- RWE increases stake in power supplier
Harpen
- EnBW finalises purchase of Swiss Lonza group
- Statoil exercises option on Heidrun with Prosafe
- Norway licensing round attracts 14 company applications
- Turkish construction consortium signs power plant loan
- Centrica strikes deal on Enron's European retail arm
- Fall of Enron speeds up launch of Gasunie trading hub services
- Rompetrol Group receives syndicated loan
- Mirant to end venture with German utility
- Rolls-Royce seals Polish power plant contract
- International Power to develop new generation in Italy and UAE
- BP believes Europe must push on with market liberalization
- Conoco unit sells 175 Jet service stations in UK
- Italy
under fire from Enel for lack of clear market regulation
- ICE prepares to launch UK gas and power platform
- BP reaches agreement on development of Maclure field
- MOL, OMV and TVK jointly bid for Czech Unipetrol
- UK gives BP's Clair field go-ahead
- Yukos and Slovnaft bid for Slovak Transpetrol
- Rokke takes over as Kvaerner chairman
- EU sees problems in mergers between E.ON, BP, RWE and Shell
- Statoil chairman to resign next year
- Dynegy completes acquisition of BG Storage
- Enron -- a pioneer of Europe's new power markets
- RWE and Electrabel to build power station in Antwerp
- Statoil to set up global exploration unit
- France's entry into theelectricity exchange arena
- Shell and BP implement TIBCO solutions for global trading operations
- Enbridge acquires stake in Spain's biggest oil products storage business
- Norway's Petoro is a different kind of oil and gas firm
- EU approves E.ON acquisition of PowerGen
- TotalFinaElf launches North Sea Huldra field production
- UK clears Dynegy Europe's acquisition of BG Storage
- Centrica buys stakes in North and Irish seas
- E.ON plans US acquisitions
- Ofgem lifts remaining price controls on power retailers
- Amerada Hess hopeful on Marjun prospect
- Statoil, Ruhrgas and BEB set up new gas trading company
- DSM to sell EBN stake to Dutch government
- EdF boosts electricity presence in UK with TXU deal
- Conoco sells off Jet filling stations
- Shell and ExxonMobil have no deal yet on Gasunie
- ENI wants to expand its way into heavyweight league
- Bulgaria plans 349 privatisations for 2002
- Shell expects dramatic change in energy markets over next 50 years
- BP sheds hundreds of Scottish jobs at Grangemouth
- Sydkraft applies to build Baltic gas pipeline
- Innogy to set up US energy trading desk
- Kerr-McGee announces first oil at Leadon field in North Sea
- Norway approves BP's planned development of Valhall flank
- BP delighted with new communications director
- British Energy considers further Canada
investments
- Enel's Eurogen sale draws eight Italian and foreign bidders
- Aquila to open more UK natural gas storage by late 2002
- Technip and Coflexip merge capabilities
- European investors in Kazakhstani oil still keen on Iranian export route
- Fortum to take over Birka Energi
- Aquila to open more UK natural gas storage by late 2002
- British Gas regains Morecambe Bay supply
- Powernext aims to be European energy trading hub
- Melrose wins Bulgarian gas deal
- Solvay and BP launch polyethylene joint venture
- Petroleum Geo-Services plans Norwegian operations
- SOCAR, Botas and BP to set up European gas marketing company
- E.ON moves to
strengthen hold over Ruhrgas
- Yukos proposes rescue plan for Kvaerner
- Statoil enters deal with Norwegian-based companies for pipe supply
- European energy firms are wary of Enron
- EU approves Merloni-Foster Wheeler power venture
- Babcock Borsig Power acquires Spanish unit from SEPI
- Shell and BMC Software enter strategic global partnership
- Norsk Hydro signs separate contracts for Snoehvit LNG sale
- EU companies set to begin emissions trading in 2005
- US power firms plunge into European energy trading market in droves
- Yukos raises stake in Kvaerner
- SPP reports on Europe-bound shipments of Russian natural gas
- Serb Republic and Energy Financing sign tunnel
construction deal
- Poland elects Elektrim consortium to buy stake in top power supplier
- AES to build Bulgarian lignite coal-fired plant
- DSND and Halliburton aim to form joint Subsea venture
- BP to develop largest untapped oil field in UK Clair
- PowerGen to be in German E.ON hands by next spring.
- Technip and TNG form Technip Kazakhstan
- EdF to acquire majority stake in Polish power plant
- Hungarian firms interested in business elsewhere in Central Europe
- Brazil's energy sector opens big opportunities for British firms
- MOL secures exclusive rights for negotiations on PKN Orlen
- Yukos acquires stake in Kvaerner
- Gazprom begins production in Siberia and delivers to
The Netherlands
- Coflexip Stena Offshore announces results of Technip public offerings
- ENI in talks with SABIC over possible sale of its chemicals division
- E.ON gets Virginia state approval for takeover of PowerGen
- ENI in process to place petrochemical operations on market
- Statoil signs contracts for Kvitebjorn gas and condensate field
- Itera to sell 10 % stake in TNG Energy in 2002
- BP Exploration selects Emerson Process Management
- Gazprom and European consortium to link up in bid
- Eneco and Shell Energy end power distribution joint venture
- Czech government shortlists groups for electricity privatisation
- Norway gives final approval for development of gas-fired power plant
- Acorn and Aquila apply for final clearance for UK power plant
- Shell believes big oil must prepare itself for end of hydrocarbon age
- Ruhrgas Energie to bid for MOL's gas business
- Statoil finds no oil in Skuld prospect
- BP confirms it will increase production by at least 5.5 %
- Consortium of banks provides loan for Polish power plant
- Amerada Hess puts UK gas and electricity supply business up for sale
- Enron and Swiss EWZ set up power trading joint venture
- Norway receives nominations for 17th licensing round
- Kvaerner to move much of its management back to Oslo
- Schlumberger acquires Phoenix Petroleum Services
- Prosafe, Statoil, BP and Halliburton agree to utilise MSV
Regalia
- Up to 1,000 jobs could be at risk at Grangemouth oil refinery
- Gazprom starts exports to The Netherlands
- Statoil and Schlumberger Information Solutions sign agreement
- Statoil's Gullfaks Soer natgas field starts test production
- TGS-NOPEC begins seismic program in Eastern Mediterranean Sea
- Statoil to raise Danish North Sea oil output by more than 30 %
- BP and Shell test drilling off Faroes Islands proves non-commercial
- Slovak government receives six bids for stake in Transpetrol
- Gazprom to double gas supplies to EU countries in 30 years
- ENI expects to reach hydrocarbon output target one year earlier
- Kvaerner reaches agreement with banks on structuring financing
- Mirant and Enel.FTL to increase gas operations in Europe
- Shell strikes deal for first use of prototype compressor
- BP plans new headquarters in Aberdeen
- Conoco seeks UK approval for Vanguard Extensions prospect
- Tractebel acquires 95 % stake in Turkish power station project
- Gasunie and Gazprom sign gas supply agreement
- ABB to start trading British natural gas in October
- Shell downgrades output forecast
- CE Electric wins EU approval for acquisition of Yorkshire Power
- Conoco to seek government approval for Lincolnshire offshore project
- EC clears acquisition of CE Electric from Innogy's Npower Yorkshire
- Premier Oil on firmer footing after restructuring of Asian
assets
- UK gives go ahead for Avonmouth power station
- Poland gives preliminary approval for sale of refinery to Rotch Energy
- OMV would like merger of equals with PKN
- Amerada Hess receives green light to drill in Faroese waters
- RWE expands European trading and launches trading in Houston
- EU approves Shell-Cinergy-Attiki joint venture
- Latvia may revoke retail trading license of Statoil Latvia
- Itera's Latvian arm holds 25 % in shares of Latvian Gas
- ENI to start production of light crude oil in southern Italy
- Lauritzen Kosan and Tschudi & Eitzen form new joint venture
- Kvaerner reports testing on new CompRiser joint for Heidrun platform
- EdF auctions rights to
output from its power stations
- Norway to allow Norsk Agip to drill in Barents Sea
- Enel wins Endesa's New Viesgo power business assets
- Sale of stake in Unipetrol attracts around 20 companies and consortia
- MOL wants to sell gas business and buy stake in PKN Orlen
- Ruhrgas to step up operations in eastern Europe
- Unipetrol privatisation sale attracts twenty applicants
- PGS announces successful completion of UK North Sea seismic survey
- Vietnam and Norway sign next phase of oil exploration agreement
- DUC reports on North Sea gas production
- Nizhnekamskneftekhim to buy share package in Swiss Nizhex
- EdF files application to generate electricity in Greece
- Scottish
Enterprise fights to secure fair deal for SMEs
- Poland's G-8 group needs around1.5 bn euros investment
- Marathon acquires three Heimdal licenses from Statoil
- Poland expected to make preliminary decision on sale of stake in PKN
- Gasunie calls on reducing gas shipment prices
- Nippon Mitsubishi to dissolve British oil production subsidiary
- Statoil to buy Navion stake from Rasmussen
- Gazprom strengthens control of BorsodChem via CE Oil & Gas buyout
- PSEG expects to buy stake in Polish power plant
- BP selects Landmark for joint development program
- Agip to return to Barents Sea as only operator
- EU approves acquisition of Montedison by Italenergia
- LUKoil and Latsis
Group make joint bid for stake in Ellinika Petrelaia
- Cairn Energy set to make return of cash to shareholders
- Calpine completes acquisition of Saltend Energy Centre
- Endesa to build five new power plants in Spain
- Italenergia wins control stake of Montedison
- German regulators request EU to review mergers
- Poland selects Iberdrola to buy strategic stake in largest power supplier
- BP still plans to sell Burmah Castrol chemicals businesses
- Statoil issues tender documents for Kristin platform
- BP shelves disposal plans for Burmah Castrol chemical businesses
- Statoil believes UK needs to change natural gas pricing system
- North Sea Non-Harsh Environment Jack-up fleet utilization is 100 %
- Enterprise Oil sells Danish business to Paladin Resources
- Baker Hughes acquires OCRE (Scotland) from Aker Maritime
- Statoil applies for development of Kristin natural gas field
- Sibur to bid for Czech chemical group Unipetrol
- BP reassures to meet production targets
- Statoil expects recovery in its Norwegian oil and gas production
- Statoil to continue its drive for greater efficiency
- Serbia concludes agreement on Russian gas transits with MOL
- DUC reports rising of North Sea gas production
- Solvay acquires BP's engineering polymers business
- Saipem acquires Moss Maritime and Petromarine
- Statoil-BP gas supply contract triggers liberalisation and controversy
- BOTAS opens tender for natgas pipelines in ten regions
- EnBW and ENI in talks for joint acquisition of GVS
- Shell will have to abandon production growth targets
- OMV to build retail network in Serbia
- Clyde Petroleum announces production from Castricum-Zee natgas field
- Endesa to build new CCGT plant in Huelva
- Genesis expands in France
- Enel to sell Eurogen
- BG lifts profits by 18 % but fails to deliver sales volume growth
- BG doubles size of LNG fleet
- Bouygues Offshore begins rationalization and restructuring of UK presence
- Shell to offer Scotland big jobs boost in 2002
- Endesa wins bidding for Italy's Elettrogen
- BP to join Hungarian gas and power business
- Dynegy acquires BG assets
- BP joins Alliance to Save Energy as only oil company
- BP buys another 3,000 petrol stations throughout Europe
- E.ON will hand over Veba Oel to BP
- BP brings Shell into its Faroe Islands exploration license
- PanCanadian and ENI join CO2 Capture Project
- Technip and JGC set up joint venture company EPC Business
- BP secures gas import deal with Statoil
- BP Egypt to purchase TotalFinaElf's stake in Mediterranean gas concession
- Repsol-YPF reveals strategic plan investment for 2001-2005
- Technip and Intergraph signs contract
- Statoil and BP sign long-term Norwegian gas sales
contract
- BP reaches deal to sell chemical division
- Statoil to start drilling for oil off Faroe Islands
- Asco in joint venture deal with Maritime Service Centre IJmond
- Norway upholds permits given to Naturkraft
- Irish Electricity Supply Board to spend $ 2.24 bn on overhauling power network
- Technip, Coflexip and Isis discuss possible combination
- Shell and IBM sign five-year strategic alliance agreement
- Entergy sells Saltend power plant to Calpine
- Ahlstrom sells US energy unit to Golden Power Acquisition
- Endesa and Iberdrola warn of possible power problems in Spain
- DONG and POGC sign gas export agreement and establish BalticPipe
- PowerGen closes sale of
Hungarian and German holdings
- InterGen to invest in Dutch power plant
- EU blocks proposed merger of General Electric and Honeywell
- ENI believes Iran-Libya Sanctions Act to be unconventional
- Barmac joint venture to be dissolved
- BP launches Statistical Review of World Energy 2001
- Technip, Isis and Coflexip to combine forces
- PowerGen completes sale of German and Hungarian assets to NRG
- AES buys most of Thermo Ecotek's energy assets
- EC threatens legal action against Statoil and Norsk Hydro for price-fixing
- Fiat-led group wins bid for Montedison shares
- Centrica acquires stake in Belgian power and gas joint venture
- BP believes energy markets are in testing
times
- Statoil abandons Sarsfield Prospect off Ireland
- Syntroleum outlines new developments on gas-to-liquids technologies
- Sir Mark Moody-Stuart honoured as petroleum executive of the year
- Coflexip to make Aberdeen its headquarters
- Norway awards gas contracts for Kristin Field and Sigyn development
- Blake oil field starts first production ahead of target
- Phillips UK successfully refloats Maureen platform
- BHP Billiton to become biggest diversified miner in the world
- Gazprom expresses interest in Slovakia's national gas utility
- RasGas to deliver LNG to Edison Gas
- Statoil ready for smooth transition towards partly private ownership
- Petrobras to sell UK
subsidiary to Enterprise Oil
- Conoco to make biggest spend in British sector of North Sea
- Maersk replaces corroded pipes in North Sea
- Gazprom will eventually cash in on growing European demand
- ENI foresees natural gas supply shortage for Europe in 5-10 years
- PGNiG and DONG reach agreement on gas import
- Norway sets share price for Statoil
- EdF moves into gas trading business
- Consortium negotiates shares in gas pipeline via Poland and Baltic Sea
- BP and Shell join campaign to reduce global warming
- Energy firms show interest in Norwegian asset sell-off
- Shell to invest in new and renewable energy businesses
- TotalFinaElf to boost UK North Sea oil and gas
business
- European Commission approves merger of BHP and Billiton
- ENI chooses UBS Warburg for IPO of gas transmission network
- Shell selects solutions from SAPMarkets to power Shellwide system
- AgipPetroli may be merged with ENI
- Gaz de France wants to triple gas production by 2003
- Shell to continue with acquisitions
- TotalFinaElf takes over Huile Minerales from Metraux Services
- Petroplus and Reliant sign MoU on energy efficiency
- BP believes development of Skarv field to be worth while
- Yamal Two gas pipeline to be financed by loans to Slovak Gas
- Statoil ready to start first ever exploration well off Faroe Islands
- Trico Marine to acquire two platform supply
vessels
- Statoil's Asgard B gas production platform inaugurated
- Ramco Energy plans to drill first well in Montenegro
- Dispute arises between Hungarian authorities and electricity utilities
- Gas Natural and Enel to study possible gas joint ventures
- OSG to form joint venture to acquire new double-hulled VLCCs
- Italian authority values ENI's gas distribution network
- Centrica and TotalFinaElf buy Humber Power stakes
- Gazprom's growth creates unease in Eastern Europe
- Statoil priced for privatisation
- European Commission to examine Italian energy decree
- Greece wants to reduce stake in Hellenic Petroleum
- Gaz de France to merge Hungarian natural gas
distributors
- Endesa builds three CCGT plants in peninsular system
- BP could be operating in North Sea region for next 50 years
- SulphCo. to market and implement technology with Italian refineries
- OSG to acquire four new double-hulled VLCCs from Bergesen
- Shell orders two more LNG carriers to support global strategy
- Union Fenosa and International Power to build power plants in Italy
- ENI's Rete Gas Italia valued
- BP's launches redevelopment scheme for North Sea Don fields
- Gaz de France and Sonatrach form new firm to sell LNG
- DNV and Oceaneering establish Argus RTM
- Petroplus to acquire Frisol
- ENI to increase production of hydrocarbons
- BP and Conoco make agreement for Norwegian Sea explorations
- Tractebel subsidiary enters charter agreement with Bergesen
- ENI to do well in 2001
- BP to invest more than £ 700 mm in North Sea projects
- Mirant to buy 40 % stake in Industrikraft Midt-Norge
- BP believes to find more oil offshore Helgeland
- Oil firms make profit again at British pumps
- GE to supply gas turbines for power projects in three European countries
- Poland approves Russian pipeline route
- Amerada Hess applies for development permission of Perth
- Fredriksen venture to fund acquisition of six LNG tankers
- Statoil platform removal about to start
- BP selects Accenture for critical
business systems
- Kvaerner strikes deal for North Sea shuttle tanker recovery plants
- Secret commissions were sanctioned by several French presidents
- EU clears merger of Cepsa and TotalFinaElf Espana
- Turkey to give up complete control of Tupras
- WesternGeco to complete new seismic survey in Norwegian Sea
- Statoil's Troll platform to sell between 15 and 25 % of its shares
- Petreco to extract natural gas from Black Sea in Bulgarian deal
- Statoil develops new tool for offshore environmental control
- OMV focuses on exploration and production activities in Middle East
- Shell orders two more LNG carriers
- Statoil shares to be floated soon by Norway government
- Noble
Affiliates subsidiary to be awarded Shetland Island block
- Wintershall and RWE to participate in privatisation of Czech gas sector
- Gazprom, Fortum, Ruhrgas and Wintershall form "Project North European Line"
- New entrants take 8 % share in total of Spanish gas market
- Williams gears up for Europe's deregulating gas and power markets
- Petoro to be world's fifth largest oil and gas firm
- Shell deserves praise for stand on climate change
- PGNiG hopes to strike deal on route of new Russian gas pipeline
- Petoro to take control of Norway's State Direct Financial Interest
- Shell drops hostile bid for Barrett Resources
- Spain suspends voting rights on board of Hidrocantabrico
- Qatargas and GasNatural
sign contracts
- DUC's production of natural gas declines
- Evergreen Resources to explore five wells in Ireland
- Seacor Smit and Stirling Shipping close acquisition
- BP reveals cost of stake in EC Erdoelchemie
- Statoil and others develop ultra safe grinding tool
- Ramco signs agreement with Anschutz Bulgaria
- Amerada Hess successfully completes North Sea appraisal well
- Shell and BP seize control of International Petroleum Exchange
- BP funds 21 student teams for endangered wildlife projects
- Statoil to invest on further development of Sleipner Field
- IPE bought by InterContinentalExchange
- Endesa and Repsol get approval for sale of Edenor stakes
- Peregrine Systems and BASF announce new test site for chemical industry
- Statoil to stop oil exploration in Greenland's Fylla area
- MOL to sell loss-making gas division
- TotalFinaElf applauds OPEC for bringing stability to oil prices
- Aker Maritime furious at nomination of Siem for Kvaerner's board
- TotalFinaElf in no hurry to make further acquisitions
- Oil Directorate orders drilling to be stopped at Phillips's Ekofisk field
- Republican paramilitaries force oil firms to pull out of Northern Ireland
- Austrian OMV and Tehran sign oil contract
- Battle for control of Gazprom could stop gas flowing to Europe
- Polar Lights Company wins environmental award from EBRD
- Aker Maritime
joins Trade-Ranger as newest member
- Weatherford International acquires Orwell Group
- BP to license and market Eastman's polyethylene technology
- BP's investments in politically sensitive areas of the world criticized
- Enterprise Oil to market Corrib gas separately
- WoodMackenzie reports on UK oil and gas production
- MOL reinforces control of TVK
- European Commission blocks Irish oil venture
- API enters bid for Elettrogen
- Kuwait Petroleum files complaint with Dutch energy watchdog
- Gas Natural to build power plant at Tarragona
- EU approves joint venture between Shell and Beacon Group
- EU reviews gas contracts at request of BP
- Enron givesup gas marketing deal with SNP Petrom
- ABB Automation to acquire Entrelec
- Endesa waits for Dutch foreign investment law before purchase of Remu
- Pinnacle to acquire 100 % of Eastern Petroleum (Cyprus)
- Electricite de France's still attempting to gain foothold in Spain
- International Power and Ansaldo Energia to develop Italian power plants
- NRG Energy acquires PowerGen's German and Hungarian assets
- Partial privatisation of Gaz de France postponed
- Duke to invest this year on European generation assets
- Gas Natural to invest in combined cycle plant in central Spain
- BP completes sale of gas assets to Tullow Oil
- TotalFinaElf begins production from Elgin field
- TotalFinaElf announces start-up of production from Elgin Field
- ZPiUT to build gas pipeline network in southwest Poland
- A.P. Moller reports 79 % rise in 2000 pre-tax profit
- Danish DONG looking at selling gas to Britain or Poland
- TietoEnator signs agreement with Shell
- Shell ready to take control of RWE's refining and marketing operations
- Norway agrees to compromise for partial privatisation of Statoil
- Itera considers Moldova-Romania pipeline
- LUKoil plans expansion in Bulgaria
- PGNiG must come up with finance plans for Yamal gas pipeline
- Moody-Stuart to tackle new challenge at next year's UN Earth Summit
- Norwegian and foreign companies to receive equal
treatment
- BP and Nova Chemicals to jointly develop catalysts
- PKN/Orlen hoping to merge with MOL and OMV
- BP selects Asera's software services to support BPDirect.com
- Qatar to sign LNG export deal with Spain
- Statoil closes Zeepipe pipeline after discovery of gas leak
- BP awards contracts for development of Hoton field
- Analysis and property prediction of hydrocarbons helps Stanlow refinery
- Statoil submits proposal to boost capacity of Kvitebjorn pipeline
- Security for oil workers in North Sea has improved
- Shell launches new studies into GTL investment opportunities
- E.ON acquires PowerGen
- Snohvit gas-block development to create great activity in Norway
- ROC's Kyle field comes on stream
- Gas Natural to build 10 power plants by 2005
- ABB launches bid for Entrelec
- BP reports on oil and gas output
- TGS-Nopec and WesternGeco acquire new survey in Norwegian Sea
- ABN AMRO wins cash management contract from Shell
- RWE to merge DEA gasoline and diesel business with Shell
- RWE and E.ON focus on core utility operations
- OMV and E.ON end cooperation talks without agreement
- Ofgem proposes new incentives for gas pipeline monopoly Transco
- US Supreme Court rejects Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell appeal
- Doctor claims health problems are caused by BP's Scottish refinery
- Gazprom and allies reveal plans to
consolidate Hungarian investments
- Shell launches £ 100 mm venture capital fund
- Conoco announces successful natural gas well in UK North Sea
- Petkim authorises sale of Yarimca complex
- Enterprise Oil receives three licenses in Norway 's North Sea round
- Gaz de France plans to double European gas market share
- Aker receives first participation offer on Norwegian continental shelf
- EU approves sale of Elf Antargaz
- Norway first time offers offshore exploration acreage to service company
- Phillips to bring Jade oil and gas field development on stream
- TotalFinaElf, Agip, Shell and Exxon approve Otter field development
- BP could lose earnings in switchover to green fuel technology
- Hunting acquires US Vinson
- BP signs worldwide software license agreement with Consilient
- Gazprom prepared to offer telecommunications network to Europe
- Scots firms in rig crisis
- North Sea Gullfaks gas export line opened
- IHC Caland to acquire US Atlantia Offshore
- British Gas and KeySpan abandon plans to build NorthSouth gas link
- EU gives antitrust clearance to Halliburton-Shell joint venture
- Repsol and Borealis drop their Iberian petrochem plan
- Shell's engineering contract with AMEC to create over 4,000 jobs
- Hungary's MOL bids for Polish oil refinery
- AES purchases Sardinian oil-fired cogeneration facility
- Croatia and Yukos to discuss
plans to pump oil via Adria pipeline
- Sterling Resources wins Danish exploration licence
- Poland clears GATX purchase of fuel transporter DEC
- Statoil and Pemco to become leader in Baltic lubricants market
- Deutsche Bank adviser in the reform of the Croat oil and gas sector
- TotalFinaElf to spend 9 bn euro this year
- BP's changes have cost Scotland 10,000 jobs
- German boy finds a solution to the problem of oil spills
- Record results for Enterprise
- Dowdy oil group coming out of its Shell
- Conoco planning its first UK power plant
- The Norwegian Red Cross signs a deal with Statoil
- Talisman get approval for North Sea Hannay field development
- Talisman to invest $ 565 mm in E&D on UKCS
- Consortium awarded £200 mm Scotland-Ireland pipeline project
- Statoil to drill Porcupine basin prospect off Ireland
- FX Energy begins gas production In Poland
- Talisman's president expects overall oil output to rise 10-15 %
- Consortium demonstrates that a floating LNG chain is safe and viable
- TotalFinaElf set for electric development
- BP seeks chief - to start in seven years
- Polish Kleka field begins gas production
- Shell to make North Sea a top wind power generator
- UGI to
acquire 20 % stake in Elf Antargaz
- Norwegian industrialist proposes merging Aker with Kvaerner
- GEOCAN Energy acquires third concession at Czech Bucovice Block
- EU approves Chevron-Texaco deal
- Shell and Siemens to link solar energy businesses
- Endesa reports on rise of profits
- LUKoil-Europe to open London office
- Innogy to acquire Yorkshire Power Group
- Ofgem recommends opening domestic gas supply to full competition
- Kvaerner to divide its business into three new companies
- Enterprise Oil approves development of Corrib gas field
- Jacobs Engineering finalizes second phase of agreement with Stork
- Centrica plans to become Britain's biggest electricity
company
- Talisman commences with oil from North Sea Beauly Field
- Statoil reports on rise of oil output
- BG disputes claims for pushing up gas prices in Britain
- More than 15 groups apply to build offshore wind farms
- Gazprom extends contract for delivery of gas to Austria
- LUKoil seeks to expand in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
- Turkey's Tupras plans new oil refinery to meet petroleum demand
- Shell cuts refinery processes throughout European plants
- Endesa and Iberdrola to terminate merger plan
- PILOT reports on a successful 2000
- TXU to sell its interest in North Sea natural-gas fields
- BP purchases global license for Lanner's Witness tool
- BP being investigated by the European Commission
- Petrola to raise funds through initial public offering
- Austria's Avanti group offers controlling stake to LUKoil
- Amec close to finalise Tyneside deal with Shell
- Italy to sell off another 5 % of ENI
- Petroplus and AES set to sell new bond issues
- BP to run down its Baglan Bay chemicals plant
- Tullow Oil completes purchase of Murdoch/Boulton package from BP
- BP's profit angers union leaders and some MPs
- BP reports on 2001 output growth
- ENI opts for selective path to growth
- UK companies to establish partnerships with South African firms
- High ol and gas prices more than double BP's 2000
profits
- Shell to spin off software company Kalido
- Schlumberger acquires British Sema for $ 5.2 bn
- Shell boosts fourth-quarter profits to $ 3.58 bn
- Shell boss says gas-guzzling cars should become unfashionable
- British Gas sparks outbreak of price increases for domestic customers
- EC approves acquisition of Energie Baden-Württemberg by EdF and OEW
- Rolls Royce reportedly takes 40 % stake in Polish power company
- At least seven groups line up offers for Italian Elettrogen
- E.ON bids for Iberdrola after collapse of Endesa merger
- Shell to start share buy-back programme after record results
- BP awards Crazy Horse production platform to Swedish GVA
- Borsodchem at
centre of most complicated takeover battle to date
- NIS to set up consortium to finance exports of goods and services
- US and Italian utilities apply to build new power stations in Italy
- BP introduces new prospects to global explorers via the Internet
- ABB to buy Eutech Engineering Solutions
- BP to sell plastics fabrications, fabrics and fibre businesses
- Weatherford claims new world record for expandable sand screen
- BP to award main contracts for Clair oilfield in 2002
- Neftochim oil refinery seeks potential investor
- Aker Maritime and Reinertsen to establish joint company
- BP Amoco shortlists 10 bidders for Burmah Castrol business
- Shell issues stern warning against penalising UK oil
industry
- Norway appoints joint global co-ordinators for Statoil sell-off
- BP to sell its plastic fabrications and fibres operations
- Spanish court conditionally agrees to Endesa-Iberdrola power merger
- Norsk Hydro to develop North Sea Fram Vest oil field
- RWE acquires stake in Slovak gas storage company Nafta
- Demand for Rolls-Royce turbines increases
- Coflexip Stena Offshore finalizes acquisition of deepwater operations
- Texaco extends oil search to Captain field
- Tuskar's shares plunge after defeat against Nigerian partner
- Coflexip to take vessel FlexService 1 out of commission
- North Sea oil companies face contractor price pressure
- BP and Solvay to strengthen
polymers businesses in Europe and US
- Serbs sign contract with Gazprom for natural gas supply
- BP moves "Beyond Petroleum"
- Shell follows RWE-DEA's search for partners "with interest"
- EuroGas ends merger talks with Teton Petroleum
- Norwegian government relaunches Statoil
- ENI signs loan contracts to finance Blue Stream project
- Grupo Endesa to acquire Regionale Energie Maatschappij Utrecht
- Sonatrach and CEPSA choose five companies for pipeline project
- Norsk Hydro to develop Fram Vest oil field in North Sea
- Aker receives letter of intent from BP for modification of Valhall facilities
- ENI outbids rival suitor for Britain's Lasmo
- PowerGen sells Rye House Power
Station to Scottish Power
- BP plans to become world's first operator to use green fuel on rigs
- Texaco and Volvo sign global lubricant supply agreement
- Paribas and partners win EC approval to buy Elf Antargaz
- Hadro Resources acquires stake in Slovgold Deutschland
- Petroplus buys stake in TotalFinaElf oil pipeline
- Watts to take place of Moody-Stuart at Shell
- Norsk Hydro to build gas fired power plant in The Netherlands
- Enterprise Oil signs deal with Iran's Petropars
- Noble Affiliates and Shell complete North Sea asset exchange
- Centrica ready to become Britain's biggest electricity supplier
- Shell to update investors on progress made in meeting goals
- PowerGen to
reduce financing costs and refocus business
- LUKoil plans to invest in Bulgaria
- BP to invest in second phase development of Foinaven field
- Gulf Oil close to acquiring chain of UK oil service stations
- UK North Sea ready to expand for sub sea contractors next year
- PowerGen sells option to build gas-fired power plant in Germany
- BP's Kessog to be offered under the Satellite Accelerator initiative.
- Petroplus moves into big league of refiners
- PowerGen sells stake in Portuguese power station
- Ruhrgas raises stake in Gazprom
- Statoil warns government of overrun for Åsgard development costs
- Sasol to acquire Condea
- Venture buys interests in North Sea fields from
Phillips UK
- ENI to participate in feasibility study for sub sea natural gas pipeline
- BP sells interests in a number of North Sea licenses
- Statoil to invest in Poland
- Sonatrach and ENI celebrate 25th anniversary of TransMed Pipeline
- Conoco confirms UK central North Sea discoveries
- National Energy Commission approves Endesa-Iberdrola merger
- UK oil companies to assist oil and gas industries in Venezuela
- Whitehall Fund buys most of ENI's real-estate operations
- Ofgem to remove final price controls from British Gas Trading
- ENI and Repsol-YPF discuss strategic alliance
- BP named second most admired company in Britain
- Seven firms to take part in Algerian-Spanish
pipeline feasibility study
- Lundin Albania commences drilling operations
- Petroleum Geo-Services approved by Common Data Access
- ENI rules out any merger with Repsol-YPF
- Norwegian government announces partial privatisation of Statoil
- Petroplus buys stake in TotalFinaElf oil pipeline
- Phil Watts to follow up Mark Moody-Stuart at Shell
- Norsk Hydro to build gas fired power plant in The Netherlands
- Enterprise Oil signs deal with Iran's Petropars
- Hadro Resources acquires stake in Slovgold Deutschland
- Irish power firm signs deal for construction of new plant
- E-Power to spend £157 mm on gas turbine for Dublin plant
- Ireland Power selects two companies to build power
station
- BP starts production at North Sea Keith oil field
- GulfMark Offshore signs seven vessel building programme deal
- Croatia's Ina signs deal with Yugoslav Beopetrol
- Repsol YPF sells one of its UK-based units
- ENI to supply gas from Libya to Gaz de France
- Smedvig signs letter of intent with Norsk Hydro
- EuroGas enters agreement with Polish Oil and Gas Company
- ENI to restructure gas activities to comply with EU gas market
- GdF and Utility.com set up online energy sale services in Europe
- UK gives Conoco green light for North Lincolnshire power station
- Gaz de France enters partnership with US online venture Utility
- El Paso begins European natural gas trading
from London offices
- Italian court dismisses appeals by seven oil firms
- ExxonMobil to invest in Sigyn gas field off Norway
- TotalFinaElf to sell LNG unit Elf Antargaz
- TCV and Shell to co-invest in Internet ventures
- North Sea oil companies resist British upstream tax regime
- EU approves sale of TotalFinaElf stations
- Statoil to invest in new diesel oil facility at Danish refinery
- Wintershall enlarges Argentinean portfolio
- Maritime authorities order ship owner to secure sunken tanker
- Amerada Hess agrees to pay $ 3.48 bn for Britain's Lasmo
- Shell to help increase Russia's energy exports to Western Europe
- MOL takes control of TVK board after shareholders
meeting
- Gazprom and Gaz de France sign pipeline deal bypassing Ukraine
- ENI to expand outside of its home market
- Italy's Enel to acquire US CHI Energy
- Petrel Resources negotiating with Iraq on damaged oil fields
- Shell ready to take responsibility for tanker sinking consequences
- Coflexip says acquisition of Aker is best way to strengthen business
- Shell and Cinergy win natural gas system franchise in Athens region
- Coflexip Stena Offshore to acquire Aker Maritime unit
- European Investment Bank to lend 100 mm euro to MOL
- Prista Oil to launch motor oils with Texaco technology next year
- Cinergy to supply Attica region with natural gas
- Conoco acquires interest in
Norwegian Grane Field
- Borehole service divisions of Compagnie Generale and READ to join
- Etanor wins natural gas prize for 2000
- ExxonMobil to integrate lubricants operations in Europe
- Bow Valley signs life of field development agreements for Kyle field
- Big oil companies to support UK B2B Mentoring Initiative
- Gazprom plans export channel to Europe bypassing Ukraine
- Endesa said to acquire Iberdrola
- Seven international corporations form new green partnership
- Weatherford installs Expandable Sand Screen installation for BP
- PowerGen sells Cottam UK power station to London Electricity
- UK gives green light to acquisition of Norweb Energi by TXU
- Report identifies
potential orders in Brazilian offshore market
- Aker Maritime to construct BP Amoco's Valhall platform
- Zarara announces participation in Turkish gas development project
- Novi Sad oil refinery seeking for investors to help in revival
- Fierce bidding awaits Italian power plants
- Nederlandse Gasunie to provide services to Gazprom's export arm
- Croatia's Ina to offer oil to Yugoslavia
- InterGen requests for new Rotterdam power plant permit
- Shell reinforces commitment to GTL technology
- Karachaganak signs deals with US, Italian and Greek companies
- Norsk Hydro selects GeoQuest software for subsurface evaluation
- Online trading is piling the pressure on traditional brokers
- GE and Jenbacher announced distribution expansion to Mexico
- TietoEnator to develop new, web-based industry portal
- Slavneft-Belgium signs fuel supply deal with BP-Amoco
- Rolls-Royce outlines future for pipeline industry
- ISIS and GeoNet services.com enter agreement
- Production has begun aboard Aasgard B
- BP and Slavneft unit sign kerosene export agreement
- Gazprom hais fine with stake in BorsodChem
- Moody-Stuart expects oil prices to fall after technology developments
- Williams Energy Marketing & Trading to open London office in 2001
- BP-Schlumberger alliance to add value to Norwegian Valhall project
- Phase II of Statoil's Gullfaks satellites project installed
- Borsodchem deal bars Gazprom from Hungarian market
- MOL, Borsodchem, TVK and MKB sign agreement
- Norwegian gas sold to Norsk Hydro's Grane project
- EU meets with seven of Europe's top oil companies
- Petro-Canada sells Norwegian assets to Paladin Resources
- Antitrust office approves MOL's purchase of stake in Slovnaft
- OCA welcomes BP and Shell's North Sea investments
- Harland wins life-saving arbitration claim
- Petrobras to sell British subsidiary
- El Paso Energy to trade in UK electricity market
- HEP and Enron sign new electricity deal for power plant in Croatia
- Sterling Resources' UK subsidiary wins five new onshore licenses
- BP/Statoil
consortium to study viability of methanol fuel cell vehicles
- Sempra acquires major share of Atlantic Electric and Gas
- Gazprom buys stake in Hungarian petrochemical company
- BP guarantees to invest $ 4 bn North Sea through 2004
- MOL to sell stake in GEOGE Idku
- Sterling Resources to test for oil and gas in Romania
- Boots & Coots assist in MOL's gas well fire
- Oil and gas companies to increase investment in UK Continental Shelf
- Van der Veer does not expect lower crude oil prices this year
- Bulgaria to sell stake in Black Sea gas exploration concession
- EU rejects TotalFinaElf's sale proposal of service stations
- PGS gets approval for Ramform Banff improvement
- BP looking at $ 2 bn plan to cut costs and emissions on North Sea platforms
- Shell to commit itself to six new North Sea projects
- Sempra Oil Trading moves headquarters to Switzerland
- Gazprom and European gas groups study Russian-European pipeline
- TXU Europe considers sale of North Sea gas production business
- Conoco starts gas production at UK North Sea Vixen field
- ENI ready to restructure refinery network and reduce petrol pumps
- BP looking for DTI approval for Magnus field EOR project
- TCP sells North Sea gas interests to Gaz de France unit
- New turn in BP's
replacement of North Sea standby vessels discussion
- Shell considers increase in research and development spending
- Faroe exploration license winners excited by prospect of new find
- Shell's CEO says natural gas to be fuel of the future
- Norwegian government officials urge the privatisation of Statoil
- E.On to close several non-nuclear power plants in cost cutting step
- Oil companies to squeeze final revenues from North Sea platforms
- BP Amoco to plan gas pipeline linking Algeria to Spain
- Statoil considers Caspian as the most interesting
- Zurich Global Energy and AAMS transfer offshore business
- ABB selected for IndustryWeek's 100-Best Managed Companies list
- Electricity regulator backs BG/ESB
Northern Irish power plant
- Shell Group to launch global employee share purchase scheme
- BP stirs up petroleum market over series of trading ploys
- Kuwait Petroleum to expand oil refining operations in Europe
- LUKoil to spend $ 150 mm on first phase of Neftokhim overhaul
- Shell to integrate world-wide trading activities under 'Shell Trading'
- Heerema wins multi-million-dollar platform deal from Esso
- BP signs million-dollar deal with IBM
- BP and Aspen Technology to implement software solutions
- Judge calls for access to classified TotalFinaElf documents
- Phillips issues LoI to Aker Offshore Partners for Maureen platform
- Seven licensee groups for Norwegian offshore fields conclude
agreement
- Gap between BP and Shell narrowed substantially in last five years
- BP proposals to replace standby vessels with helicopters continues
- Statoil's Veslefrikk field shut-down because of serious corrosion damage
- BP Amoco to increase UK North Sea capital expenditure next year
- E.ON sells Veba Electronics to European and US consortium
- Kvaerner offers to purchase Aker Maritime through all-share offer
- Rejection of bid causes quarrel between Aker Maritime and Kvaerner
- Scottish & Southern Energy buys Welsh utility SWALEC
- Turkey to draft petroleum law decree and to include privatisation of Botas
- Botas' privatisation status crucial for planned gas sales to Turkey
- Shell to divest European
oil refining capacity further
- BP Amoco names new CEO for chemicals division
- Bartimpex finds pipeline from Norway to Polish coast unrealistic
- Shell appoints Luis Giusti as a non-executive director
- TotalFinaElf announces new platform installation in Dutch North Sea
- Texaco and Shell to swap assets in Greece and UK
- Conoco and Halliburton sign UK oil and gas contract for five years
- First production well on Statoil's North Sea Sygna field comes on stream
- Ofgem to prioritise environmental issues
- BP and partners choose single steel platform for Shetland Clair field
- Ireland signs non-binding agreement with Tosco to sell refinery at Whitegate
- BP to sell some UK Southern North Sea gas assets to
Tullow Oil
- Yugoslav company seizes Angola's share of Elf's oil revenues
- Texaco to invest in Welsh Pembroke refinery for low sulphur petrol
- Shell chief appointed to head G8 renewable energy taskforce
- Hydrogen Burner Technology and Gaz de France sign agreement
- Sonatrach joins seven Spanish companies to form consortium Reganosa
- Ofgem found no signs of market abuse
- Turkey's Petrol Ofisi sold for $ 1.26 bn
- Two Hungarian natural gas utilities to merge in first half of next year
- Shell to devote £100 mm to develop three North Sea fields
- Spain's power marketto be in full competition by 2003
- Enron to be first foreign company to enter Spain's electricity generation market
- Three banks join HSBC for Czech medium-term syndicated credit
- NordTransgas starts feasibility study for Baltic Sea gas pipeline
- Australia's Roc Oil signs agreement with UK Shell and Maersk Contractors
- Norsk Hydro to double oil and gas production by 2010
- Romania issues electricity supply licence to Enron joint venture
- Norsk Hydro nearly one year ahead of target
- OceanConnect.com announces launch of online system for bunker sales
- Shell Group to sell resins and versatics business to US Apollo Management
- Aker Maritime to dissolve joint ownership arrangement with US
Peter Kiewit
- Engelhard and Shell join forces for new hydrocarbon dew pointing process
- Kerr-McGee announces approval of Skene field development project
- Statoil starts exploration drilling offshore Greenland
- Repsol-YPF to merge part of its chemical assets with Denmark's Borealis
- Polish government awards ten oil & gas concessions to EuroGas
- UK agrees to ExxonMobil's North Sea gas development project
- Vasa Kraftwerke to build and operate 1,200 MW power plant in Lubmin
- US Aquila Energy receives licence award for trading Spanish gas
- Phillips Petroleum to increase production in Norway's Ekofisk field
- DTI introduces web-based system for oil production reporting
- Shell not happy with high oil
prices on long term
- Schlumberger announces licensing of Brent field survey
- Siemens to build largest coal-fired power plant in Turkey
- Virgin Energy to lever Electricite de France into UK power market
- Turkey awards five BO power projects
- EU clears ENI stake in Portuguese oil and gas firm GALP
- PGS signs letter of intent with Statoil for Norwegian North Sea field
- Poland approves sale of stakes in state oil giant and insurer
- Royal Dutch Shell president foresees company's gas sales to surpass oil sales
- BP Amoco and partners sanction Bahia de Bizkaia LNG-power project
- Repsol-YPF introduces new Internet portal
- Bouygues Offshore's subsidiary to construct LNG terminal in Bilbao harbour
- Scottish Barmac leaves prospect of unemployment for yard workers
- Danish Denerco acquires Australian owned Petroz (UK)
- Turkish Koc Holding signs agreement with Statoil
- Portugal's EDP in talks with ENI over co-operation in Brazilian gas sector
- TotalFina and Elf create ATOFINA Chemicals and Petrochemicals
- Norsk Hydro to sell British offshore stakes to Conoco
- Fifteen oil companies apply to explore for 34 blocks in Norwegian North Sea
- Texaco and Statoil launch European jet fuel services alliance
- Enron increases European power trades by 100 % over last year
- Ramco receives licensing option for Galley Head offshore Ireland
- Austria's OMV buys stake in west of Shetlands islands
- EU Commission clears merger of German Viag and Veba with conditions
- Algeria's Sonatrach to start selling LPG in Europe
- Canadian Geocan Energy to explore for oil and gas in Czech Republic
- Schlumberger purchases minority share in Framo Engineering of Norway
- Vitol forms strategic alliance with RedMeteor.com
- Italy fines eight oil firms for fixing petrol prices
- Industry body targets UKCS marginal field development
- ENI to plan fundamental shake-up of Snam gas operations
- Talisman Energy to develop small North Sea Beauly oil field
- Norsk Hydro to develop Vale gas field investment
- Shell to double LNG capacity and expand power generation
- Santa Fe wins UK drilling
contract
- BP Amoco's Havsule gas prospect to be promising
- Croatia and Enron to break off agreement on building Jertovec
- Shell set to enter Iberian market
- Bulgargaz to invest 153 mm leva in pipelines expansion
- Talisman Energy's subsidiary to develop UK Beauly oil field
- Rolls-Royce preferred supplier of industrial gas turbines for BP Amoco
- BP Marine and Unitor to join forces in unique marine alliance
- Shell to double LNG capacity and to expand power generation
- Germany's Wingas sceptical of new gas quality rules
- Companies study plans for gas pipeline connecting France and Spain
- TotalFinaElf says workforce to be reduced by 20% in Norway
- Poland picks US GATX to
buy oil transport firm
- Oman to start exporting LNG to Spain in fourth quarter of 2000
- Coflexip Stena Offshore acquires UK robotics company
- Lyondell to build propylene oxide facility in the Netherlands
- Kvaerner acquires Whessoe International LNG capability
- OFGEM proposes separate price controls for BG Transco gas mains
- Polish Oil & Gas Company presents conclusion on oil and gas potential
- Exxon Mobil to sell 25 % stake in German Thyssengas
- German cartel office warns oil companies against fixing petrol prices
- Kvaerner and Norsk Hydro Grane to sign $ 16 mm pump deal
- Statoil to launch IPO in 2001
- EU confirms clearance of BP Amoco/Castrol deal
- Cytec to sell its
share in Criterion to Shell unit
- Lundin Oil announces continuance of exploration activities in Albania
- Prince Charles opens British power plant in Hungary
- ENI CEO says merger possible but not necessary
- AGRA officially changes its name to AMEC
- BP and others bid for offshore drilling rights Faroe Islands
- TXU Europe and EdF to reduce power distribution costs
- AES acquires control of NIGEN with $ 82 mm investment
- BOC says new take-over talks unlikely
- Agip's offer for British-Borneo Oil & Gas declared unconditional
- Stolt Comex Seaway changes name to Stolt Offshore
- Bid for BOC almost collapsed
- BP aims to boost gas output by 50 %
- Courage Energy announces results of exploration well in Paris Basin
- Kuwait seeks French market opportunities
- Spanish Repsol-YPF seeks to boost presence in natgas sector
- Electricité de France to expand UK growth
- DUC North Sea oil production record-high in April
- Division of US UtiliCorp buys small UK gas company
- EC clears Dow Chemical's buy of Union Carbide with conditions
- ECT and P&O Nedlloyd announce joint Rotterdam container terminal
- Talisman swaps stakes in UK North Sea for stake in Halley field
- US' Geospace forms North Sea oil alliance with UK's READ
- Enterprise Oil produces early oil at Cook field
- British Centrica forms alliance with Vodafone
- Hungary's MOL wants natgas market liberalised from 2002
- PowerGen selects Andersen Consulting in preparation for NETA
- Shell and Halliburton establish WellDynamics
- Spain's Endesa plans $ 10 bn investments
- Technip acquires 29.68 % of Coflexip
- Shell to put more energy in gas production and gas and power opportunities
- Shell E&P presentation to analysts
- Shell and Beacon Group establish Shell Technology Investments Partnership
- Spain's Endesa seeks growth and take-over protection
- Sulzer and Shell link up on high-capacity tray technology
- Strong interest for Shell coal assets
- Norske Shell to drill 2 new wells to extend Draugen oil field to 2015
- NAM selects GeoQuest as subsurface evaluation software provider
- Sulzer takes over Ahlstrom Pump ctivities
- FTC clears BP Amoco take-over of Burmah
- London Electricity agrees to Ofgem licence change against market abuse
- Consortium plans two new gas-fired power plants in Germany by 2003
- Shell and Siemens plan pilot emission-free gas-fired power station in Norway
- Shell plans to buy back shares after Dutch approve legislation
- Texaco acquires 25 % in Bulgarian lubricant-maker Prista Oil
- BG to develop Egyptian LNG plant with EGPC and Italian Edison
- MOL to buy a stake in Slovak refiner Slovnaft
- Duke acquires Mobil's MEGAS
- BHP plans to reduce staff and costs at Liverpool
Bay
- ALSTOM acquires ABB's 50 % share in ABB ALSTOM Power
- Conoco to build power stations in Britain, Germany and Spain
- Premier Power to build 600 MW power plant in Northern Ireland
- British-Borneo agrees to offer from Agip
- Fortum to sell Baltic filling stations to LUKoil
- PowerGen set to auction powerstations and overseas interests
- Norway awards Shell President blocks in 16th licence round
- Pavilion Technology and ABB launch power plant venture in Poland
- Courage Energy commenced drilling in the Paris basin
- BP Amoco buys Burmah Castrol for $ 4.7 bn
- Ingersoll-Rand and Aggreko join in oil-free air compressor rental market
- TXU to bid 2.3 bn euros for
Hidrocantabrico
- Spain's Gas Natural plans $ 3.7 bn investment over next five years
- MOL is expanding via acquisition of hydrocarbon fields
- Fenosa and Enron win gas marketing licences in Spain
- Reliant Energy buys remaining stake in Dutch UNA for $ 975 mm
- Who owns BASF?
- First Polish section of Yamal-Europe gas pipeline completed
- Petroplus expects refinery margins to improve in second half of 2000
- Costs Aasgard rising but within the overall investment framework
- Northwest European refining margins set for rebound in 2000
- BP Amoco to increase exploration off Norway in 2000
- Marine Shuttle Operations signs MoU on financing
- Statoil details 2000 maintenance
plans
- About Endesa
- Statoil to offer several oil fields for sale
- BG plans a role as global gas industry playmaker
- Enron UK offers gas storage service via the Internet
- Italy's Eni is looking for European partner
- ABN Amro and Dresdner Bank offer $ 8.4 bn for Dordtsche Petroleum
- UK approves Shell Expro's North Sea Skiff gas field
- TotalFina to sell assets in pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other sectors
- Poland in talks on the sale of stake in 1,725 MW Rybnik power plant
- Enterprise Oil acquires Arco's Irish interests
- Newcomer Independent Energy builds up 5 % in UK retail power market
- AES to build $ 750 mm lignite-fired power plant in Bulgaria
- BP Amoco plan approval for development plans for 3.0 bn boe
- TotalFina finally took control of Elf Aquitaine
- Rentech and Jacobs sign MoU to market GTL plants world-wide
- Kvaerner to sell Kvaerner Maritime
- TotalFina-Elf to invest $ 8 bn in capital expenditure in 2000
- Octagon Energy and Enron Europe to develop coal-bed methane
- ENI in no rush in looking for partners
- Shell must shed more refining capacity in Europe and Asia
- EuroGas to explore for and develop oil and gas resources in south-east Poland
- EU clears TotalFina buy of Elf with conditions
- EC clears German Linde's purchase of Swedish AGA
- Talisman confirms series of asset transactions in the Central North
Sea
- Gas Natural to invest $ 5 bn in Spanish pipelines and operations
- Romania sells 69.17 % in local oil refinery Darmanesti
- ABB acquires UK power network service company
- Statoil plans to cease production at Yme field
- Totalfina awards survey task of Erika wreck to Coflexip Stena Offshore
- Montenegrin Jugopetrol Kotor signs exploration deal with Britain's Star Petroleum
- UK's Tesco says to create 4,000 jobs through Esso alliance
- EC authorises break up of fuel and lubricants JV between BP Amoco and Mobil
- PowerGen and Shell in UK offshore wind project
- Premier to invest in gas transmission pipeline to link Belfast with Dublin
- Czech government invites bids for 71 % stake of refiner
Paramo
- Launch of Shell's internal trading emissions scheme STEPS gets mixed reactions
- Gazprom arranges first sale to private Italian company
- TotalFina costs after oil spill $ 122.9 mm
- Turkey to sell 15 % stake in Tupras
- Burford Holdings and Shell plan rail-based distribution centre near Manchester
- EuroGas and Austrian Slovgold to drill for coal-bed methane in South Wales
- SAP and Statoil to develop online marketplace for the oil and gas industry
- Concerning the EU approval of Air Liquide-BOC deal
- Upward trend in UKCS oil production continued in November
- New industry body set up to address key issues affecting the UKCS
- Lasmo sells stake in North Sea Birch and Larch fields
- Eni to invest $ 40 bn over the next four years
- Shell to form joint venture with Commerce One to develop Internet marketplace
- Talisman, BG and Paladin receive approval for development of Blake oil field
- Repsol-YPF has taken full management control of Gas Natural
- Talisman seeking to become operator of Piper, Saltire and Chanter fields
- ScottishPower update
- Reliant Energy forms European business unit
- ScottishPower appoints Charles Miller Smith as new Chairman
- Repsol YPF schedules investments of $ 11.8 bn for 1999-2002
- BP Amoco launches online gas trading in UK
- Gazprom to supply Holland with gas under new agreement
- Poland completes first gas-pumping unit on Yamal gas
pipeline
- UK's National Power expands alliance with Spain's Union Electrica-Fenosa
- BG starts gas production from North Sea Easington Catchment Area project
- Redetermination of interests in licence of Troll in North Sea
- Alliance between Endesa and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in electricity trading
- Norsk Hydro to develop, Shell to operate Ormen Lange field
- Six major shipping companies to pool their VLCC fleets under one umbrella
- UK Ofgem names 7 firms that manipulated trading rules at St Fergus
- Paladin Resources and Enron in Romanian gas deal
- Stolt Comex agrees to buy ETPM of Suez-Lyonnaise
- Dutch NAM to cut more jobs
- Shell steps up the pressure on its cost base
- Karen Segundo to take over as CEO of Shell International Renewables
- CEPSA to use natgas network of Grupo Gas Natural
- British Gas re-named to BG Group Plc following restructuring
- Shell appoints Paul Skinner as group managing director
- Shell to develop three North Sea oilfields
- Gazprom sees gas exports to Western Europe at 87 bn cm in 1999
- Hellenic Petroleum to repurchase equity stake in natural gas distributor DEPA
- Turkey plans to offer shares in refiner Tupras in Q2 2000
- Ramco completes take-over of Medusa
- BP Amoco and Exxon Mobil dissolve European fuel and lubricants joint venture
- Barmac cutting 3,300 jobs at fabrication yards in north east Scotland
- Shell and Texacoto swap Greek fuels business for certain assets in the UK
- Norwegian oil companies spending on exploration to see 37 % increase on 1999
- Veba Oel increases stake in Aral to 99 %
- BASF divesting stake in ARAL
- Repsol-YPF creates RYTTSA to concentrate supply, trading and shipping activities
- Repsol to sell Repsol Exploracion UK to Kerr McGee
- Hydro and Elf join forces to develop minor gas fields Vale, Skrirne and Byggve
- Synetix, Methanex and ABB Lummus Global form alliance on syngas
- Gazprom, Romgaz sign agreement on gas deliveries to Romania
- Spain authorises Cepsa, Shell, Enron to sell natural gas to major clients
- El Paso in joint venture to build gas interconnector from Britain to Ireland
- Potomac Electric buys Dutch gas transmission networks
- Fundacion Repsol to license geoscientific and drilling software from GeoQuest
- Centrica and Dynegy agree on the first financially settled gas swap
- National Power to demerge its international and domestic operations
- Gazeksport and Transgas sign deal for gas transits through Czech Republic
- ABB to sell two cable companies in Norway and Sweden to Draka
- LUKoil to help raise throughput at Bulgaria's Neftokhim refinery
- Kvaerner announces a new and global strategy in a changing market
- Kvaerner is looking at emerging markets
- Syntroleum names contractor for first commercial-scale GTL plant
- LUKoil reportedly interested in taking a stake in Serbia's
NIS
- Statoil and Methanex to form Strategic Alliance towards methanol for fuel cells
- Repsol looking at different options for further expansion
- Troll C floating production platform started
- Exxon presents Oil and Energy Ministry development plan for Ringhorn field
- PanCanadian acquires light oil production interests in UK's Central North Sea
- Norsk Hydro focusing on three main businesses
- PDVSA in talks to take 50 % in Veba Oel
- Gazprom says Dutch-registered subsidiary will sell shares abroad
- LUKoil to boost Neftokhim refinery's capital
- West Navion keeps busting its budget
- Shell and BASF to form world's largest polypropylene maker
- Europe's first standard natural
gas trading contract launched
- Highlights of the increased flotation of Italian electricity utility Enel
- Norsk Hydro unveils strategy for the future
- Enterprise announces first oil from Jotun field
- Eni looking for a partner
- Rowan further reducing its North Sea drilling fleet
- Phillips plans $ 1.1 bn to dismantle all 14 platforms at the Ekofisk field
- Phillips submits Norway a cessation plan for Ekofisk
- Mol admits blocking Russian gas to Yugoslavia
- Reliant to expand power trading in Europe
- Exxon and Agip agree to integrate two refineries in Italy
- Ramco and partners granted licensing option for North Celtic Sea Basin Blocks
- Gas companies agree on gas trading
contract and hub agreement in Zeebrugge
- Enron signs MoU with Bulgargas
- Repsol-YPF to sell assets in UK and Indonesia
- LUKoil acquires majority stake in largest refinery on Balkans to invest $ 400 mm
- Kvaerner to lay off 3,000 oil and gas workers in Britain and Norway
- Bouygues Offshore sells SECHAUD & BOSSUYT group
- Swiss Addax to seek IPO in 2000
- Statoil seeks buyer for Statoil Energy
- Shell appoints Leslie Mays to vice president, Group Global Diversity
- RWE working on European expansion strategy
- Talisman expanding in North Sea
- ENI on the path of international expansion
- BP Amoco seeking buyers for Ketonex polymers technology
- Statoil launches advanced visualisation and sensing laboratory in Trondheim
- TotalFina prepared to swap assets for EC
- Reliant Energy completes first phase of Dutch power generation acquisition
- EU launching an extended antitrust probe into TotalFina-Elf merger
- Esso Norge begins oil production at Balder
- Foster Wheeler and BOC form strategic alliance
- Petronas' investment in Premier good for all
- Elf sells stakes in North Sea fields to Talisman
- Brynjulv Mugaas new CEO of Harland and Wolff
- New plan for Hydro/Saga organisation presented
- Foster Wheeler and BOC form strategic alliance
- Shell to lay off another 7,000 employees
- Gazprom in three-way
deal on UK/Belgium Interconnector pipeline deliveries
- Statoil looking at ways to develop Snøhvit field
- BP Amoco disappointed as test of Skarv structure reveals only gas
- Premier sees many advantages of alliance with Hess and Petronas
- Enterprise completes Norway Skarv appraisal well with significant potential
- Premier Oil selling 25 % stake in the company to Petronas
- Bulgaria to continue talks with LUKoil on Neftokhim sale
- Solvay and Elf negotiation with Shell on French PVC and VCM operations
- Dismantling Ekofisk platforms to cost over $ 2 bn
- Conoco U.K. to invest $ 145 mm in refinery for new generation of clean fuels
- EU approves Exxon-Mobil and BP Amoco-Arco
- European oil companies react
differently on Y2K
- Gazprom appoints Centrica as operating agent on Interconnector
- LUKoil wants to buy Czech Republic's Paramo refinery
- EC clears Pakhoed/van Ommeren merger
- Premier in advanced talks with Petronas and Amerada Hess over strategic alliance
- EU to order Mobil out of European downstream JVs with BP Amoco and Aral
- Shell awarded another share of the Ormen Lange gas field
- US Trade Agency gives Romania's Oil Terminal grant for feasibility study
- Mol group buys stake in petrochemical producer TVK
- Advanced deepwater drillship named
- TotalFina SA wins approval for Elf Aquitaine take-over
- TGS-NOPEC secures rights on seismic data over the entire Portuguese shelf
- Is TotalFina-Elf now looking at GDF?
- European Commission looking closely at Air Liquide - BOC
- Statoil finds traces of oil in northern part of Siri field
- Aasgard to be more expensive
- Repsol-YPF starts output from Buckland field
- UK regulator OFGEM appoints EnMo to run new on-the-day gas market
- Talisman starts production at North Sea Orion field
- BP Amoco and Mobil talk on how to proceed with European downstream JV
- Statoil sells number of license shares in North Sea to Paladin
- Private investors buy London headquarters of BP Amoco
- Enron & Andersen join forces to offer energy trading solutions to European market
- TXU Eastern Group in JV with Finland's second
largest electricity generator
- Conoco's "Ramform Banff" at 5 mm barrel
- The battle of France has been won, TotalFina takes over Elf
- Alstom and BG to work together on polymer fuel cell technology
- Shell not seeking mega merger
- Offshore Europe closes in a mood of cautious optimism
- Statoil completes submarine section of Vestprosess pipeline
- Marine Shuttle Operations receives financing for Offshore Shuttle project
- Centrica to export its innovative corporate model to the Continent
- Fluor Daniel forms world-wide strategic alliance with AMEC
- PowerGen to build a 250 MW gas-fired plant for ICI in UK
- BP Amoco sees floor of Valhall field sinking
- Decommissioning Ekofisk
platforms to be discussed
- Banff nears peak level
- Statoil considers development new gas fields
- Statoil considering participating in offshore licensing round in Faroes
- EU's Van Miert sees green light for Exxon/Mobil
- EU to scrutinise Air Liquide buy of part of BOC
- Shell sells London Shell-Mex house to U.S. Witkoff Group
- Weatherford buys North Sea oilfield equipment maker Petroline
- Statoil trying to look different at decommissioning
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs approves Reliant Energy/UNA partnership
- Statoil expected to push ahead with developments
- Enron seeks buyers for Sutton Bridge gas-fired power station in Britain
- Kvaerner to shed 3000 jobs
world-wide
- Shell to sell its international coal assets
- Exxon/Mobil likely winning EU merger approval
- Texaco and Shell swap retail assets in Poland and Britain
- Jacobs agrees in principle to acquire Stork Engineering Group
- Wingas opens Europe's largest gas storage facility
- Norsk Hydro steps up work on Grane oil project
- PowerGen and ICI agree on new 250 MW CHP plant
- Mobil announces first oil from Buckland field in Northern North Sea
- Rolls-Royce buys Cooper Cameron unit for $ 180 mm
- Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux intends to become a global energy powerhouse
- Marathon confirms interest in gas wells in European waters
- Caminus to acquire Orion Systems
- IPE appoints Sir Bob Reid as chairman
- Linde's planned purchase AGA is move up in global industrial gas world
- German Linde bids for Swedish AGA
- Conoco's North Sea Bell gas field starts production
- Gaz de France want to get involved in China and Iraq
- EU has no objection to BP Amoco-Arco and Exxon-Mobil
- OMV considers bid for Slovakia's Slovnaft
- Slovak refiner Slovnaft files $ 75 mm suit against Merrill Lynch
- LUKoil given exclusive right to buy 58 % of Neftokhim refinery
- Laying submarine pipeline section off western Norway starts
- UK reminds EU wanting to have a say in Exxon/Mobil merger
- Shell to sell former London headquarters to US investor
- NOVA bids for Shell's European polystyrene business
- OMV and Paladin farm-in to central North Sea Enterprise license
- Asgard gas trunkline in the Norwegian Sea completed
- Shell cautious on high oil price
- BP Amoco announces spending plans for UK continental shelf
- Ramco spuds its first well offshore Bulgaria
- Dow Chemical to buy Union Carbide
- BG to develop Blake field
- Stolt Comex Seaway forge ahead
- IPE ready for take-over
- Texaco signs deal with TotalFina and Elf on gas from Captain field
- BP Amoco says to consolidate European polybutene production in France
- Improved oil price offers new opportunities for UK companies
- MOL aiming to become a major regional player
- Kerr-McGee expands interest in North Sea
- Repsol-YPF and BP Amoco extend strategic gas deal
- Shell reshapes huge oil trading system
- French oil heads clashing
- Elf striking back on TotalFina
- Elf sees separate oil and gas and chemicals groups with TotalFina
- How Elf and TotalFina compare financially
- Belgrade fears that Budapest may hold up Russian gas transits
- GE Power and BP Amoco to construct a 500 MW power plant in South Wales
- BP Amoco a step ahead on the competition
- Dutch Petroplus picks up the cast-offs from major oil companies
- Hull of semi-sub Åsgard B platform on its way to Norway
- Talisman increases interest in Blake field
- Air Liquide and Air Products bid together for BOC
- Siemens and Shell agree on developing gas powered fuel-cell
- Repsol-YPF to invest $ 11.8 bn world-wide
- North Sea Sygna oilfield gets go-ahead
- Kerr-McGee acquires additional interest in Gulf of Mexico and North Sea
- Varg production vessel sold to Petroleum Geo Services
- Amec and Wood Group in JV for Shell Expro's Northern North Sea installations
- Enterprise plans $ 1 bn fundraising to fund major expansion
- Shell to move Shetland offshore flight operations from Sumburgh to Scatsta
- Lyondell announces European BDO plant and Texas expansion
- Dutch Royal Pakhoed NV and Royal Van
Ommeren announce plan to merge
- EU approves Norsk Hydro offer for Saga
- Elf-TotalFina seen to be a good fit
- Total in a battle for Elf
- North Sea Gannet G field started
- BP Amoco grows links with University of Cambridge
- UKOOA launches risk management tool
- IPE to present pilot plan for emissions trading permits
- Norway gets recommendations for blocks to be included in next licensing round
- Shell says chemicals portfolio restructuring plans on schedule
- Elf Atochem and BP Amoco merging European PP activities in 50-50 venture
- Norway's Stolt Comex Seaway and Denmark's NKT in offshore equipment deal
- Maersk names Chinese-built tanker
- Oil
merger spark fears of an emerging oligopoly in exploration and production
- BP Amoco sanctions team to monitor emissions
- ALSTOM completes sale of heavy duty gas turbine business to General Electric
- BP Amoco and Andersen Consulting expand outsourcing relationship in North Sea
- ENI signs agreements for development of oil fields in Italy's Southern Apennines
- Gazprom may join Baltic Gas Association
- Endesa to invest in Repsol to maintain its stake
- Cinergy buying its way in Slovak gas world
- Enron signs 20-year power deal with Croatia's HEP
- Worth of Statoil dropped due to drop in prices and overambitious growth philosophy
- BOC rejects take-over bid
- Baltic Gas association established to promote
gas in the region
- Repsol plans $ 11.8 bn investment in 1999-2002
- BP Amoco's Browne attacks UK energy tax plan
- Saga take-over a "sad day" for Norway's oil industry
- TDA signs agreement with Bulgaria to finance extra work on AMBO pipeline
- BG swaps shares for bonds to boost ambitious international operations
- Tidewater to sell fleet of North Sea safety-standby boats to BUE Marine
- Talisman successful development well at Ross
- Take-over of Saga by Norsk Hydro and Statoil looks like renationalisation
- Oil price gains do not herald a return to spending levels from before
- Shell is considering an approach to BG
- Finland's Fortum and Statoil to cooperate in Baltic fuel market
- Castle to acquire interest in oil and gas concessions in Romania
- British government sees Exxon/Mobil merger affect competition in Scotland
- EU competition department to launch in-depth probe into Exxon-Mobil merger
- EU gives clearance to GE acquisition of heavy duty gas turbine business of Alstom
- Bouygues Offshore acquires 100 % of Kvaerner France
- Hydro and Statoil divide Saga
- Enterprise receives go ahead for Cook field in UK sector of central North Sea
- Enterprise gets government approval for UK Cook oilfield
- National Power to cut its dividend
- Tractebel to focus on global expansion
- UK to announce new gas market operator
- Consortium may represent Russia in
Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project
- Electrabel seeks synergies with Suez Lyonnaise/Tractebel for EU expansion
- Saga Petroleum sells Irish gas license to Marathon
- Halliburton sees investors turning their backs on the North Sea
- Courage awarded a new concession in Denmark
- Ruhrgas interested in proposals for trans-Baltic gas pipeline
- Mobil starts production from Norwegian oilfield
- Siemens acquires Elsag Bailey's process instrument business from ABB
- ENI sees gas imports from Russia rise to 28 bn cm by 2008
- Statoil's Norvik calls for changes in the way Norway organises its gas business
- John Browne sees more merger benefits than initially expected
- International interest for equity in
London's International Petroleum Exchange
- Key Saga and Norsk Hydro assets
- Shell sees opportunities in clean energy and changes in Chemicals
- Elf Aquitaine to sell North Sea interests
- Strong interest for London's International Petroleum Exchange
- BASF and Symyx initiate strategic collaboration
- Norway awards North Sea exploration licences to 14 firms
- Norway offers Mobil exploration acreage in North Sea
- Veba plans consolidation
- Mark Moody-Stuart is not closed to merger ideas
- Exxon and Mobil file for EU merger clearance
- BG sees profit increase from local cost-cutting and international operations
- Lasmo pays premium for Monument
- Denmark awards oil licence to Amerada Hess-led consortium
- Chart signs licensing agreement with Stork E & C for gas liquefaction
- Monument and Lasmo to merge
- BP/Amoco and Shell UK order joint studies for use of Offshore Shuttle
- Hess to start pumping from Danish Syd Arne field during July
- Iberdrola and Union Fenosa to build 2 400 MW power plants
- UK's first commercial aerial oil pollution response service launched
- Phillips restarts Ekofisk
- Centrica looking to bid for National Power
- Shell and BASF form venture on low-pressure gas-phase PE technology
- Gaz de France looking for more assets in North Sea
- Coflexip Stena Offshore creates a Deepwater Field Development
Division
- Norwegian lawyer Ole Lund to be appointed chairman of Statoil
- A new board for Statoil
- Competitors join forces for Bulgaria's Petrol
- LUKoil squares off with new consortium over stake in Bulgaria's Petrol
- The Statoil board is fired
- Van Miert says Exxon-Mobil merger faces Dutch gas competition problem
- EU okays Deutsche Bank's proposed acquisition of Bankers Trust
- Bouygues to acquire Kvaerner France
- Lasmo to sell Southern North Sea Assets
- Talisman announces first oil from Ross
- International bids for construction combined-cycle plants in Spain
- Saga Petroleum submits plan to develop Borg field off Norway
- Statoil postpones
start-up of three Barents Sea gas fields to 2005
- LUKoil moving into Bulgaria
- Kvaerner in radical restructuring
- LUKoil in Bulgaria looking at Burgas refinery Neftokhim.
- Total streamlining and refocusing
- Aker Maritime to be merged or sold
- Statoil in licence swap with Norsk Hydro
- Statoil, Norsk Hydro, Saga and Exxon plan North Sea optic cable network
- Scottish Sibir targets EuroSov
- Shell adapting to shorter capital expenditure
- Shell tightens upstream oil cost-cutting
- Bayard acquisition complete
- All-party group for offshore industry to be launched in the House of Commons
- Talisman reports Blake test results
- Bouygues Offshore looking optimistic to the future
- German Wintershall may increase purchases of Russian gas.
- Amerada Hess preparing abandonment for Durward and Dauntless fields
- Statoil plans removal riser platform on Ekofisk
- Philips Semiconductors and Shell Nederland launch Easypay
- Total-Petrofina merger gets go ahead
- Ramco starts production in the Czech Republic
- Costs keep rising for Aasgard offshore field
- Statoil CEO calls for reduction of direct government interest
- MOL acquires BP's Hungary LPG trading arm
- Italy's ENI 98 net profit falls 12.1 %
- LUKoil bidding for Bulgarian state petrol company stake
- Statoil continues exploration
offshore Ireland
- Statoil sees savings possible on Aasgard oil field
- SNAM fined for abusing dominant position in Italy gas market
- Reliant buys Dutch power producer for $ 2.4 bn
- Heerema to cut one-third of staff
- Iberdrola to invest P 450 bn over next few years
- Premier Oil shelves Chestnut
- Statoil starts oil production from Danish field
- ABB plans acquisitions in oil and gas
- AES selected to BOO 190 MW power plant in Hungary
- BP-Mobil joint venture problem in Exxon/Mobil merger
- EuroGas signs MoU to develop gas gathering system in Western Poland
- Talisman gets development North Sea Orion field approved
- Statoil to cut 8 % of work
force
- Rafineria Gdanska needs to be sold soon
- Shell outperforms peers in profit plunge
- EU likely to approve Total - PetroFina merger
- EuroGas negotiating interest in gas fields in Western Poland
- Statoil's Huldra gas field development approved
- Janice field production started
- FPSO Ramform Banff onstream
- Kuwait to upgrade and expand chemical storage at Grangemouth
- IHC Caland faring well
- Mitsubishi Oil gathering oil from North Sea
- Bow Valley acquires additional equity in Southern England
- MMRL prepares plan for UK's onshore Saltfleetby gas field
- Statoil abandons Irish development and delays Greenland
- Total income down 9.3 % and well off
- OMV freezes exploration in Albania
- BASF expanding global EO/EG capacity
- Bow Valley continues exploration in France
- Phillips Ekofisk field decommissioning report coming second half 1999
- Turkish holding company buys 65 % of Romania's Petromidia refinery
- Endesa taking 3,64 % stake in Repsol
- Enterprise Oil sees good results at Cerro Falcone well
- InterGen and ENECO to develop 800 MW power plant in the Netherlands
- Group of Europe law firms co-operate on Y2k
- Gaz de France acquires North Sea assets from Total
- BP Amoco to eliminate 900 jobs in Britain
- BP delays Northstar
- Statoil
awards Aker Maritime Gullfaks
- Powell Duffryn acquires Kvaerner Ships Equipment
- Mannesmann sells Demag operations to Technip
- Saga, Total and Anadarko to co-operate in Atlantic Margin
- Enterprise restructuring and relocating
- Conoco acquires North Sea assets from Canadian Petroleum
- ABB's acquisition of Elsag Bailey approved by EC
- Saga's Tordis East on stream
- EU clears BP- Amoco merger
- Britannia inaugurated
- Eastern Group in JV with electricity company in Spain
- Talisman UK awarded 5 North Sea blocks
- Norway extends 3 % oil cuts to June
- Gorm Gundersen now EVP of ABB Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
- PanCanadianawarded 4 exploration licences in UK North Sea
- Shell and Texaco cancel European refining alliance
- Gazprom to build new gas pipeline through Romania
- Oil platform jobs boost
- CSW and ScottishPower build power station in England
- BP to invest heavily in chemical in UK
- Decision on gas pipeline through Baltic Sea in 1999
- Janice field inaugurated
- 4D seismic volumes to image reservoir changes at Foinaven
- EVC and Norsk Hydro end petchem merger talks
- Wingas completes Wedal gas pipeline
- Shell plans to cut emissions
- Ramco acquires more exploration acreage in Czech Republic
- ABB to acquire Elsag Bailey
- PowerGen
North Sea sold to Centrica
- Coflexip Stena Offshore sees changes at the top
- Bow Valley applies for license in Paris Basin
- Shell buys part of Total Gas customer portfolio
- Ekofisk II production not as expected
- Arco and Mobil merge managements southern North Sea gas
- Successful test North Sea - Kyle field
- El Paso acquires interest in Scottish Power Plant
- Lukoil builds car oil company in Romania
- Lasmo sells Tempa Rossa field in Italy
- Successful appraisal of Irish gas discovery
- Statoil builds Graphics RealityCenter
- BG to sell UK gas storage
- MOL and AspenTech sign service agreement for advanced control
- Amoco in PP licensing pact with Czech Chemopetrol
- Shell and Petrofina swap service stations in Norway and the Netherlands
- Chevron sells Gulf Oil Refining and Milford Haven to Dutch Petroplus
- Texaco and Shell sign MoU on European marketing & manufacturing venture
- Shell buys Texaco UK's gas processing and marketing business
- BP and Statoil to pool technical resources on climate change
- Phillips to remove Ekofisk 1
- Shell with Daimler-Benz in fuel cell cars
- Halliburton does not buy Amoco's stake in North West Hutton field
- Oil productions started from ETAP
- Schiehallion field production started
- Petrodrill seeks $ 1 bn for construction of 6 deep-water rigs
- Substantial fleet expansion
- Shell talking with yards for VLCC newbuilds
- Lyondell delays construction of PO plant
- IPE studies European gas futures contract
- First production from Britannia
- AP Moeller looking to expand in LNG
- Shell Bulgaria in trouble with fixed fuel prices
- Coflexip Stena Offshore wins several major contracts
- EVC And Norsk Hydro's petchem division intend to merge
- FPSO Bleo Holm for Ross field delayed
- Enron completes financing for Polish power plant
- Smit expands harbour towage activities
- Turkish 1215 km gas pipeline tender completed
- Brussels ends Pakhoed/Van Ommeren tank storage venture
- Petroplus wants to buy Milford Haven from Chevron
- Occidental sells Dutch North Sea holdings
- Shell is changing
- Santos sells UK assets to Petrobras
- Marathon and Clam awarded Danish North Sea licenses
- Mobil to have dumped polluted sludge
- Saga wins in 3 oil licences off Denmark
- MOL receives loan for upgrade refinery and gasoline station network
- InterGen and ENKA finalise ESA for 3500 MW in Turkey
- First production from Columba E field
- ENI outsources the management of its
technology infrastructure
- BP to invest heavily in Grangemouth
- Kerr-McGee wins British National Safety Award
- Gazprom, Statoil and Norsk Hydro sign co-operation protocol.
- BP stops drilling in UK-water for 1998
- PowerGen to sell offshore assets to raise money
- Petroleum Geo-Services completes acquisition of Awilco Floating Production
- Mobil gets go-ahead for Buckland field
- Norsk Hydro to expand chlorine and VCM plant
- Statoil to sell part of its holding in Navion
- Broere orders three tankers
- Texas Utilities gains important access to British power market
- OMV plans gas storage facility for Europe
- Stolt's new intra-European trader
signals a shortsea technology advance
- Croatian INA ready for restructuring
- Kvaerner Maritime designs ice-breaking AHTS vessel
- Norsk Hydro develops clean natural gas power
- ENEL's privatisation blocked
- Statoil now also faces rising costs on Aasgard B development
- Bulgaria's Plama oil refinery in tangles for re-start
- Norsea Oil Terminal handling ever more
- Halliburton to take over Amoco interest of UK's NW Hutton asset
- Production started from Mallard subsea development
- Tomen buys 25 % in Romanian power company
- AP Moeller group posts 1997 $ 563 million pre-tax profit
- Shell adapting pension plans to the times
- Bergesen fined over oil
discharge
- Texaco UK North Sea's Galley field on-stream
- Statoil to invest in improved oil recovery project at Statford field
- High expectations for Helland Hansen prospect
- Serbia EPS to set up tender for completion of Kolubara B power plant
- Aker buys Woodfield Systems
- Gaz de France preparing for open and oligopolistic European market
- Cambridge Energy acquires Triton Wellhead and Manufacturing
- Gulf sells North Sea assets to Kerr-McGee
- PetroFina adds to Tempa Rossa field
- Mobil successfully tested well in south-central Italy
- Deakin becomes associate director at Galbraith's
- Premier Oil plans to drill between 25 and 30 exploration wells
- Neste Oy plans five product carriers
- Serbian state oil company to be privatised and looking for foreign partner
- Morgan Stanley positive about EMU
- Deutsche Shell making profit again and expanding
- ABN-AMRO to advise Romania on privatisation of shipping sector
- Shipbroker sees world oil use continue to grow
- Tyne Tees Dockyard wins another prestigious contract
- Grande Portage to negotiate with Albpetrol for development of Delvina gas field
- Arco Chemical approves world-scale BDO plant in Rotterdam
- Denmark's Dannebrog and US' Blystad Shipping form tanker pool
- Canadian company buys majority in Bulgarian refinery
- Intergraph's Notia data warehouse product tested and
accepted
- ABB Turbo Systems receives ISO 14001 and ISO 9001
- Jacobus Technology establishes European presence in the Netherlands
- Shipping battle taking a new turn
- Pakhoed plans new tankers
- Norsk Hydro purchases 4-D database of Norwegian continental shelf
- N&T and Argonaut merge into one of the world's largest tanker groups
- Moody-Stuart sees crucial role for China and India on CO2 emissions
- Turkish-U.S. financing for $ 47 mm Bursa power plant
- Endesa announces new Strategic Plan with $ 7.5 bn investments
- Li Peng to sign Shell petchem deal during visit in the Netherlands
- Romania with ENI in feasibility study for pipeline
- Centrica signs gas supply agreement with
Enron
- Tankershipper Van Ommeren and Brostrom merge in Brovo
- Gazprom also in strategic alliance with ENI
- UK DTI approves Ketch and Corvette
- Global Marine buys another semi-sub
- Norwegian Bergesen shipping group confident
- Bayer to produce ethylene amines for Akzo Nobel
- DSM chose UNIPOL for 300,000 tpy PE plant
- Phillips gets approval for development of Renee/Rubie fields
- Coflexip Stena Offshore does first ever coiled tubing re-entry
- Oilfield developers form Offshore Production Management Ltd
- Shell to explores joint regional projects in Bulgaria
- Brent Spar to become quay in Norway
- Phillips, Statoil and Danes bidding for Greenland
license
- Kerr-McGee to sell electrolytic chemical business
- Drilling went beyond 10 km in UK's Wytch Farm
- Elf reaches settlement on Leuna refinery
- Shell studying North Sea Goldeneye find
- Conoco started sales from Boulton gas field
- Shell tests E-go for automatic gas purchases at the pump
- ABN AMRO managed assets grow strongly in 1997
- Stena Bulk receives first of three environmentally-friendly aframaxes
- Occidental and partners sign Albania contracts
- Double-hulled chemical carrier Stolt Achievement launched
- BASF/Shell PE joint venture Elenac gets EU approval
- Shell Expro brings Gannet E on stream
- Shell starts production from UK
Gannet E oilfield
- February Brent blend output expected at 641,000 bpd
- Western Geophysical to use new solid-streamer
- Aasgard FPSO delayed
- DSM uses Amoco technology for PP plant
- Mitsubishi/Raytheon consortium wins UK power plant contract
- CMS Energy announces Turkish electric distribution contract
- Phillips gets go ahead for water injection at Eldfisk field
- Dutch Van Ommeren group announces strong profits
- Conoco and Amerada Hess in North Sea licence deal
- Statoil and Saga share drilling rigs
- Biggest anti-friction bearing for FPSO unveiled
- Belgian subsidiary of Ethyl Corp to be sold
- Spain's Repsol and Arco settle lawsuit
- Phillips announces successful appraisal well in North Sea
- Dutch Gasunie reports higher revenues
- Statoil could make major Norway oil discovery
- Shell merges marketing units for North Sea gas
- Thermo Ecotek sets up joint venture in the Czech Republic
- UK approves North Sea gas field development plan
- Eldfisk platform given go-ahead
- Low estimate for Durward and Dauntless fields
- Norske Conoco and Amerada Hess to trade interests
- Saga submits plans for Snorre 2 oilfield
- FPSO Schiehallion to sail out
- ENI planning to sell stake of Saipem
- Schiehallion officially named
- Shell to build petrol stations in Croatia
- Statoil rationalisation may shed 400 jobs
- Dresser reorganising in "profit improvement initiatives"
- Foinaven oil field onstream
- Agip - Saipem - SBM JV tackles Aquila field
- Statoil in conflict on Europipe II landing
- Amoco and Conoco in Clair deal
- UK gives approval for development of Malory gas field
- North Sea Curlew field on stream
- Gasunie looking for more Interconnector gas
- Banff Ramform-type FPSO gets second gasturbine
- UK export credit agency backs loans for construction Oman LNG plant
- Stolt-Nielsen flags out to Cayman Islands
- Mobil/BP to restructure lubricant base oil refining business in Europe
- GE and
partners to build powerplant in Turkey
- Unocal and Koc form private natural gas marketing venture in Turkey
- FX Energy increases acreage in Poland
- Erskine gives first gas
- P&O Tankmasters acquired by Dutch Gentenaar Group
- Petromidia USA to sign Romania refinery buy soon
- Chevron concentrating North Sea Interests
- Chevron shuffling North Sea assets
- Tractebel increases stake in Hungary power plant
- Rigel Energy buys UK North Sea assets from Conoco
- EuroGas to explore in South-eastern Carpathian area
- Erskine gives first gas
- P&O Tankmasters acquired by Dutch Gentenaar Group
- Petromidia USA to sign Romania refinery buy soon
- Chevron concentrating North Sea Interests
- Chevron shuffling North Sea assets
- Tractebel increases stake in Hungary power plant
- Rigel Energy buys UK North Sea assets from Conoco
- EuroGas to explore in South-eastern Carpathian area
- Rigel Energy acquires offshore UK properties
- Conoco sells quadrant 9 interests to consortium
- Centrica to supply gas to the Netherlands
- Maintenance job on LNG-tanker
- Chevron sells Gulf Oil to Shell UK
- Petroleum Geo-Services acquires FPSO business of Awilco
- Chevron withdraws from UK downstream oil business
- National Power expanding in Turkish power projects
- Esso and Smedvig bicker over
Balder
- Austrian Avanti finds Shell as partner
- Burlington acquires East Irish Sea fields
- Kingfisher onstream
- Petro-Canada's alliance with Norsk Hydro starts to pay off
- Njord production started
- Tapada power plant to receive first Algerian gas in October
- German power producers listed
- Texaco for 24 % in Italy power project
- Hoechst looking for more partners in PE venture with BP
- Neste sells its Borealis stake to OMV, UAE's IPIC
- Janice Field development plan approved
- Shell restructuring chemical business
- FX Energy enters new partnership with POGC
- BSL for 80 % to Dow
- Hydro says "pure speculation" to reports of giant find
- BASF to build propylene facility in Spain with Sonatrach
- RR to build and own another power station in UK
- Gasunie to contract its first Interconnector deal
- UK North Sea Alwyn field sees reserves more than doubled
- Contracts awarded bring realisation Danish South Arne closer
- Statoil swaps assets with five others
- Chevron acquires Norwegian North Sea assets in swap
- BP and Statoil exchange North Sea assets
- Conoco hits oil and gas with Buckland appraisal well
- BP changes Board
- Enron to pay $ 450 mm in renegotiated North Sea gas contracts
- Enron and Italian ENEL sign Letter of Intent for
JV power company
- Fortune sells onshore UK assets to focus on China
- Croatia's INA, Agip expand joint exploration in Adriatic
- El Paso acquires interest in Czech power plant
- KPC considers Rotterdam refinery expansion
- Norwegian Saga Petroleum to increase North Sea E & P
- EPP to develop Polish CHP-project
- Dutch Gasunie drops Belgian gas pipeline plans
- Start production Foinaven delayed again
- Eurogas and Polish Oil and Gas in JV to explore in Poland
- Gas production from Windermere started
- Amerada Hess acquires additional North Sea interests
- Dutch NCM insures Turkish CHP plant
- EBRD sign Eastern Europe energy efficiency deal with
Honeywell
- Agip back to ENI
- Work on Britannia proceeding
- Phillips has started production from Judy/Joanne
- Total to drill offshore Ireland
- FX Energy with Apache in Polish Lublin concession
- Plans for Janice being finalised
- Shearwater receives government go-ahead
- Chantiers de l'Atlantique in for more Malaysian LNG-carriers
- PanCanadian successful in UK 17th Licensing Round
- IOPC holds compensation-level at 60%
- Elgin and Franklin fields get development consent
- Ten foreign companies interested in Polish oil privatisation
- Welsh firm wins Chinese tanker conversion contract
- Statoil awards laying of Europipe
II and Ekofisk Bypass to Allseas
- UK approves development of Shearwater and Elgin/Franklin
- Ranger acquires Mobil stake in Kyle
- Siemens take over sections of Parsons
- Anadarko with partners awarded
- Greek-Saudi oil company fined for maritime pollution
- Shell Chemicals with BASF in Basell JV
- Statoil to 3-D survey Barents Snoehvit gas field
- Statoil plans condensate line from Kollsnes to Mongstad refinery
- Plans for third pipeline from Turkey to Iraq
- Marnavi orders chemical carrier
- Polish refinery granted syndicated loan
- SPP talking with Gazprom to set up pipelines
- Kvaerner takes option on Aframax
- Amoco
Romania Petroleum Products sold to MOL
- Finnish IVO and Japanese Tomen buy Hungarian power company
- With Foinaven Atlantic waters open up
- Petrofina and Fina appoint advisers for merger
- Kvaerner with Statoil
- Verolme Botlek beats 'Ethnic' work deadline with steel repairs
- Agip in accord with Croatia's INA
- MMRL aquisition in UK
- IBM to build information management system for Hungary refinery
- Mobil to invest NKr 10 bn in Norway
- Bulgargas with German firms in gas industry service companies
- Portugal's Transgas plans to expand gas grid
- Norske Shell sets '97 Norway drilling plans
- Wintershall to invest $ 100 mm bringing Russian gas to
Romania
- Amoco, BP and Phillips to operate jointly in N. Sea
- Enron chief sees Europe gas market
- Shell shareholders demand accountability on human rights
- Mobil UK North Sea gas well tests over 30 mmcfpd
- Statoil expands shuttle tanker fleet
- Aker in line for Banff FPSO
- Conoco get green light for Banff
- Kvaerner Masa-Yards delivers Floating Storage Unit
- Dutch Gasunie sells 30 bncm gas to Poland over 15 years
- Shell keeps searching for refinery-solutions
- Shell cuts in French refinery
- Stolt Comex Seaway expands support fleet
- AmClyde completes Turret Bearing System for North Sea's Balder FPSO
- British Gas tosell North Sea gas fields
- BP gains consent for phase II Bruce Field
- ENI sees rise in upstream investment coming years
- Statoil gets French green light for $ 1.3 bn NorFra line
- Esso Norge submits plans to develop North Sea Jotun field
- FX Energy and RWE-DEA begin first well in Poland
- Statoil renews contracts
- Aframax operator Teekay targets FPSO market with McDermott
- Troll C pipeline to Mongstad terminal
- Saga starts Vigdis ahead and under budget
- Statoil orders three more North Sea shuttle tankers
- Ruhrgas signs transit contract with Belgian Distrigas
- London Insurers still assessing costs Japanese tanker drama
- Ruhrgas says gas from
Norway, the Netherlands and UK
- Conoco willing to invest $ 1 bn in Polish oil sector
- Shell Expro details 1997 North Sea maintenance plans
- Statoil expands jetty at Kaarstoe terminal
- Strong interest anticipated for Statoil swap/sale
- Troll C licensees opt to land oil pipeline at Mongstad
- Statoil sees 97 oil output rise to 488 mmb
- Shell into Power
- Bulgaria plans Balkan expansion in energy business
- Saudi Aramco enters talks for Petrogal stake
- Kuwait takes share in AgipPetroli refinery and retail
- BP-Mobil merger more expensive
- BP raising UK Foinaven capacity ahead of start-up late Q1 '97
- Nippon Oil gets oil concession in North Sea
- FX Energy awarded 2 mm acre concession in Poland
- Shell tries to improve European refining sector
- Statoil: more exploration off northern Norway
- Statoil-led group licensed for off Greenland
- Enel cancels Nigeria LNG contract
- UK Government approves second development phase for Galleon
- Statoil sees record high Norway oil output in 1996
- New technique could add 10-20 mmb to Brent field
- NK-US Consortium wins oil and gas license off Greenland
- Norways Saga pays $ 1,23 bn for Kuwait's Santa Fe
- Texaco and Gulf fined over refinery explosion
- British Gas to become electricity supplier
- FX Energy and RWE-DEA start operation in Poland
- Wintershall produces 80,000 bpd oil in Libya
- Statoil plans Yme well conversion
