Ukraine's government has approved on Tuesday a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Chevron Corp. to explore and develop shale-gas deposits in the Lviv region. The objective is to reduce reliance on Russian gas as they thought that the price they pay for Russian gas is too high. The PSA would be signed on November 5 on the sidelines of an international economic forum in Kyiv.
read more... 31/10/2013
Ukraine, Croatia and Hungary aim to build their own corridor expanding gas pipelines networks. The construction of this corridor will start next year. This gas corridor is planned to be linked to the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, which is likely to carry Shah Deniz gas to Europe through Turkey. The parts have already reached an agreement on passing of natural gas through all three countries.
read more... 25/10/2013
Ukraine has inked a draft production agreement for shale natural gas with US energy company Chevron.
read more... 08/10/2013
Iran is planning to deliver natural gas to Europe in the near future after it inked similar agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with some Asian countries.
read more... 10/09/2013
U.S. energy company Hess Corp has signed a co-operation agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to develop a shale oil block in China.
read more... 30/07/2013