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Centrica to buy Norway gas fields for 1.6 billion dollars
Centrica Plc agreed to purchase from Statoil ASA Norway’s largest oil and Natural Gas Company assets in Norway gas fields for 1.6 billion dollars. The act of transaction implies sale of Statoil stakes in the Kvitebjorn, Heimdal, Valemon, Skrine-Byggve, Fulla, Frigg-Gamma- Delta, Vale and Rind fields.
read more... 21/11/2011
Iraqi cabinet approved raw gas agreement
Recently, the Iraqi Government confirmed an agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell creating a joint venture, called Basrah Gas Company (BGC) for gathering raw gas from three large oil fields, Rumaila, Zubair, West Qurna 1 and Majnoon situated in the southern part of the country. This is an important move toward reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, building a reliable energy supply and attracting more investments in the country.
read more... 17/11/2011
Largest gas exporters to discuss over long-term contracts and fair gas prices
World’s largest gas exporters leaders, among which the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, participated at their first summit on Tuesday in the capital of Qatar, Doha, two days after a ministerial meeting of the 12-nation Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) took place.
read more... 15/11/2011
Ofgem to review long term gas supplies
The British Energy secretary, Chris Huhne, asked Ofgem, the British energy regulator, for a further action in order to secure the medium and long term gas supplies.
read more... 11/11/2011
Gazprom first half net profit jumps 56 percent to 25 billion dollars
Gazprom, the largest Russian state gas monopoly, announced on Wednesday its first half net profit that registered a 56 percent increase in the first half net profit to 771.669 billion rubles (25 billion dollars).
read more... 10/11/2011