US promises Nord Stream 2 sanctions
Policy
Washington is preparing to impose sanctions on Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 project as Congress is due to debate a bill
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Cypriot gas drilling due to start within 24 months
Production
Cyprus’ energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis says oil and gas majors will drill off the island’s southern coast at eight separate
Turkey complies with US sanctions on Iran
Policy
Turkey has reportedly stopped buying Iranian oil following the US decision to end sanctions waivers, despite condemning Washington’s decision. Refinitiv
Gas industry must prioritize decarbonization to retain European market
Industry
Gas has grown prolifically in Europe over the past three decades. It past coal in 1996 and could pass oil
BP boss calls for energy transition
Policy
BP’s chairman Helge Lund says the world’s energy consumption is “unsustainable” and that the days of chasing after fossil fuels
EDF extends nuclear plant outages
Production
EDF Energy, owned by French utilities giant EDF, has extended outages at the two reactors at its Hunterston power station
Greenpeace blocks off BP HQ
Environment
Greenpeace activists have “shut down” BP’s London headquarters and say they plan to blockade it for at least a week.
Oil prices rise amid Iranian tensions
Policy
Global oil markets face more disturbances as tensions continue to rise between Iran and the US. Regional tensions, combined with
Russia set to reveal cost of oil pipeline blunder
Consumption
A joint commission of Russian and Belarusian representatives will start to reveal the losses from the contaminated Druzhba oil pipeline
Nord Steam 2 blames Denmark for possible six-month delay
Transmission
Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany may be delayed by at least six months if Denmark forces it to
Scotland completes giant offshore wind farm
Environment
The last of 84 turbines has begun operating at Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm after three years of construction. The
German wind-power sector in crisis: activists
Environment
Only 134 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind capacity was purportedly in Germany during Q1 2019, an 87-per-cent drop from the
Ireland set to miss 2020 targets
Environment
Ireland will fall short of its 2020 EU renewable energy targets, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has warned.
Industry body aims to boost smart-energy system
Industry
The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) says it has launched a compliance scheme that will make it easier for industrial
The Libyan oil era is over
Opinion
For decades, Libyan oil has been a linchpin of European oil-supply security. In 2011, the British and French even went