The opening round of talks over the next green deal in Europe highlighted differences between governments over the means and pace of transforming the continent’s economies to avoid catastrophic climate change. Germany…
EU Unveils Plan to Cut Emissions to Zero, in Bid to Save Planet
The European Union unveiled its long-term vision on combating climate change in a push for more ambitious action on the environment just days after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected his government’s warning on the…
Russia’s Arctic LNG project aims to tempt fuel-hungry Japan
US shale revolution spurs Moscow to look east for new markets TOKYO — Russia’s push for Japanese participation in an Arctic energy project comes as the world’s largest natural gas exporter, faced…
Analysis: Low LNG prices, noncommittal Asian investors hit LNG projects
Singapore — A prolonged period of low LNG prices is keeping Asian buyers from committing to offtake agreements to meet future gas demand, which means that many new investment-starved gas projects may not…
Qatar, EU sign landmark air transport agreement
Qatar and the European Union initialled a comprehensive air transport agreement at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Monday. The first of its kind ever between the EU and a Gulf…
U.S. Shale Can Add a Saudi Arabia and Pay Investors, Rystad Says
(Bloomberg) — U.S. shale-oil companies are on track to add production equivalent to Saudi Arabia’s output by 2030, without needing the external financing the industry’s boom has relied on so far, according…
Qatargas supplies commissioning LNG cargo to India’s Ennore terminal
Doha: Qatargas has supplied a commissioning Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo for India’s newest LNG receiving terminal, Ennore, near the southern Indian city of Chennai. The commissioning LNG cargo was delivered onboard…
Access to Venezuela’s oil fields fuels Putin’s support for Maduro
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have each championed a model of authoritarian capitalism (call it “development with a dictator’s face”). But what neither leader seems to have anticipated…
Renewables super grid proposed to solve Europe’s energy dilemma
A pan-European electricity system powered by decentralised renewable energy supply and connected across a high-volume super grid has been described as the least-cost option to provide an optimal pathway to achieving the…
Germany Set to Draw More Russian Gas, Regardless of What Trump Says
Germany is preparing one of its biggest sustained increases in natural gas consumption in almost two decades, regardless of U.S. admonitions that it shouldn’t draw so much of its energy from Russia….