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...Gas from Russia previously accounted for more than 40 per cent of the bloc’s supplies, but dropped to 15 per cent in 2023 despite an uptick in imports of liquefied natural gas imported from Russia by ship...
...The International Energy Agency has said there was no room for new oil and gas exploration projects if Paris climate targets were to be met....
...Any member state will be able to ban companies from Russia and Belarus from buying capacity in its gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas terminals, under a deal struck on Friday among negotiators of the...
...The Belgian natural gas company Fluxys has, for example, a 20-year contract with Yamal that ends in 2039....
...The bloc is making a concerted push to end support for oil, gas and coal....
...acts of sabotage to gas infrastructure....
...The company declared pre-tax profits of about €314mn in 2022 on €5.3bn revenue. It reported €13.6bn debt....
...EU officials have been urging European companies to avoid buying Russian LNG now that gas storage levels are at record levels and prices have come down from the post-invasion peak....
...The complaint comes at a time when the EU is looking to cut all imports of Russian gas....
...(Alice Hancock) Power Points BP has named Aviva’s chief executive Amanda Blanc as its next senior independent director in the first major shake-up of the energy company’s board since the departure last...
...The rules should provide a basis for EU companies to break contracts with Russian gas providers without paying hefty compensation, EU officials have said....
...“It takes time to develop a new energy system and we will need gas,” he said. Gas when burnt produces less emissions than coal or oil....
...the impact of “shunning oil and gas companies out of the energy transition”....
...John Cornyn, a Republican senator from the oil and gas-producing state of Texas, blasted the project review as a form of “climate wokeism”....
...ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. It has invested more than €20bn in Europe over the past ten years....
...Shell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1mn after activists occupied one of its oil and gas assets at sea, in one of the largest ever claims against the environmental group....
...But some EU countries are not living up to commitments made in 2022 to phase out subsidies for oil and gas, writes Alice Hancock....
...The cartel has become much more aggressive in opposing any threat to oil and gas production in the past year....
...Negotiators and ministers from countries around the world at the weekend accused Saudi Arabia of piling pressure on Sultan al-Jaber, COP28 president and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to shift...
...to Naftogaz, the state energy company....
...Context: The explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, sightings of Russian boats near wind farms off the Dutch coast and scares around oil rigs have heightened fears that Moscow or...
...Green cash crunch European companies are falling far short of what is needed to decarbonise but that’s mainly because of a lack of ready capital, according to new research seen by Alice Hancock....
...They also argue that it offers an opportunity for gas companies to continue producing fossil fuels with the promise that the infrastructure can be used for hydrogen in future....
...Australia’s two largest oil and gas companies have opened talks over a potential near-A$80bn ($52bn) merger to create a national champion in liquefied natural gas production in a further sign of consolidation...
...But he acknowledged that he had been called on to “engage” with governments and oil and gas companies. “And sometimes I am told ‘you can’t do that’....
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