http://www.neurope.eu Energy News - New Europe News: The European News Source. en-us Copyright The Media Company S.A. info@neurope.eu (New Europe) kgougakis@neurope.eu (Kostas Gougakis) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:24:00 +0200 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:24:00 +0200 New Europe New Europe 5 http://www.neurope.eu/images/logo.jpg http://www.neurope.eu 100 35 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99615.php US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9% in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA . Lower demand for electricity and petrol helped drive down energy use over the course of the year in the United... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99615.php Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:10:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98628.php Nord Stream has not been contacted by Ukraine to participate in a consortium on the construction of the gas pipeline and it would be up to the shareholders to evaluate such an offer Sebastian Sass head of Nord Streams representation to the EU told New Europe late on 20 January.... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98628.php Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:17:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98624.php Mabofi won its case in the Metropolitan Court of Budapest overturning the approval by the Hungarian Energy Office MEH of the fraudulent transfer of Emfesz to Rosgas Mabofi said in a press statement on 20 January. We are delighted that the Hungarian Courts have now confirmed what we have always maintained... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98624.php Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:43:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98619.php The European Union and Iraq on 18 January signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their strategic energy cooperation in areas such as natural gas energy security and renewables also hoping that gas resources in Northern Iraq would be used to kick start the flow of energy via the EU-backed... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98619.php Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:20:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98211.php For five years Andris Piebalgs of Latvia oversaw the hot seat in the European Commission that of the energy portfolio at a time when the European Union was becoming more dependent on Russia for its energy needs. Russia used energy as a political weapon and Piebalgs found himself involved in... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98211.php Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98213.php The European Unionrsquo;s biggest political problem for 2010 remains the same as itrsquo;s been for a long while ndash; what to do about Russia. Dependent on Russia for much of its energy the EU has had to play a balancing act of its own interests against those of countries like... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98213.php Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98070.php Nabucco and some other pipelines are commercial projects Andrey Klimov a member of the Committee on International Affairs and Head of the Sub-Committee on European Co-operation in the Russian Duma told New Europe in an interview in Bonn. He was asked if Bulgariarsquo;s increased support for the Nabucco pipeline at... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98070.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:48:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98063.php Now that the EU has a new Council President and High Representative who is Mr. Putin going to call? nbsp; Itrsquo;s a good question; maybe you can give me an answer because it is up to you I mean itrsquo;s up to the European Union to say what will be the duty... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98063.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:38:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98042.php Francersquo;s Total announces the acquisition of a 25% interest in the Guyane Maritime Permit from Hardman Petroleum France SAS an affiliate of Tullow Oil. The permit located about 150 kilometers off the coast of French Guiana covers an area of approximately 32 000 square kilometers in water depths ranging from... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98042.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:14:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98040.php An organization of natural gas exporting countries informally known as the Gas OPEC has elected a Russian as its first secretary general. Leonid V. Bokhanovsky a vice president at Stroytransgaz a well-connected pipeline construction company was elected at a meeting of energy ministers from the 11 member countries. The meeting... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98040.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:13:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98039.php Hellenic Petroleum the largest oil refining company in Greece announced on 10 December that it concluded the transfer of shares of BP Hellas in the framework of the agreement that was announced on 26 June 2009. The agreement called for the transfer of commercial activities of BP in Greece except... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98039.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:12:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97809.php Having visited Washington and New York a couple of times in the last months Rumiana Jeleva Bulgariarsquo;s Foreign Minister and now Europersquo;s potential European Commission Commissioner for International Cooperation Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response spoke to New Europe about the shifting geopolitics of gas and the South East Europe region. ldquo;Of... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97809.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:07:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97342.php CEZ said three companies have placed preliminary bids to build up to five nuclear reactors for the Czech power firm. Francersquo;s Areva Russiarsquo;s Atomstroyexport and USrsquo; Westinghouse entered a tender to expand the Czech Republicrsquo;s controversial Temelin nuclear power plant. ldquo;All three bidders who publicly declared their interest applied. No... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97342.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:36:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97338.php EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and US Secretary for Energy Steven Chu attended the launch of a new EU-US Energy Council on 4 November in Washington DC aiming to boost transatlantic energy cooperation. The EU said that the Energy Council will provide a ldquo;new framework for deepening the transatlantic dialoguerdquo; on... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97338.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:32:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97230.php One of the most talked about news in Kazakhstanrsquo;s oil and gas industry today is that Caspian gas in particular from Azerbaijan may turn 180 degrees around and flow east instead of west toward China. This unexpected idea originated in Kazakhstan. The president of the national oil and gas company... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97230.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96105.php The habitual tranquility among the five littoral states of the energy-rich Caspian Sea has been broken by the Turkmen leaderrsquo;s announcement early September of his countryrsquo;s intention to create a naval base and to acquire two missile ships. The experts are divided diametrically over this statement. Some of them see... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96105.php Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:52:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95947.php Shareholders of a huge Lithuanian company formed just 14 months ago to serve as a ldquo;national energy championrdquo; voted on September 4 in Vilnius to liquidate it. The move marks the beginning of the end for Leo LT which was technically the biggest company in the Baltics during its brief... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95947.php Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:56:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95935.php Bulgaria attended the celebrations in Polandrsquo;s Gdansk on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II but Sofiarsquo;s focus was on the meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Borisov had a 30-40-minute talk with Putin on September 1 on... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95935.php Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95358.php A Swedish nuclear watchdog on July 8 decided that a local nuclear power plant should be placed under special supervision citing a spate of incidents at the plant. The move was a new setback for state-owned Swedish utility giant Vattenfall that is majority owner of the Ringhals plant that operates... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95358.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:50:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95357.php Francersquo;s Total said the Tyrihans oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea started production. This field in which Total owns a 23.18 percent interest is the largest field to be brought on stream in Norway in 2009. Development drilling operations will continue over the next two years. Totalrsquo;s share... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95357.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:49:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95356.php SOCAR head in Kazakhstan Vurgun Jafarov talked to New Europe correspondent in Astana Kulpash Konyrova about the creation of the Caspian Transportation System the transport of Tengiz crude through the Azerbaijan and regional energy transport corridors. Mr Jafarov what stage is the creation of the Caspian Transportation System KCTS at and... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95356.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:46:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95355.php The European Commission slapped more than one billion Euro in instant fines on two giant gas utility companies on July 7 saying they had been fixing the market. E.ON of Germany and GDF Suez SA of France must pay 553 million Euro each. The EU executive body in Brussels said... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95355.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:45:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94935.php The European Unionrsquo;s executive is to summon international lenders to Brussels this week to discuss if they can help Ukraine pay for Russian gas destined for the EU European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on June 19. The Brussels-based body ldquo;intends to host a meeting next this week with... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94935.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:40:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94934.php Eight countries from around the Baltic Sea on June 17 agreed to link up their energy markets in a bid to make them less dependent on outside suppliers such as Russia. The prime ministers of European Union member states Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Lithuania Latvia Sweden and Poland signed an... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94934.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:38:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94933.php The Bourgas-Alexadroupolis oil pipeline will move forward regardless if oil prices rise or fall since the project is needed as an alternative for increased oil exports from Russia and the Caspian that will further burden existing oil routes Christos Dimas general manager of the joint venture Helpe SA ndash; Thraki... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94933.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:37:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94932.php Nord Stream AG the consortium and developer for the Nord Stream gas pipeline wrapped up a two-day meeting in Germany to vet public and shareholder comments on a trans-boundary environmental report submitted by the project consortium in March. Nord Stream would travel along a dual route through the Gulf of... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94932.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:36:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94931.php Developing countries on June 18 blocked plans by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA for nuclear fuel banks that aim to keep countries from acquiring sensitive nuclear technology by offering them alternatives Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa reported. The Vienna-based agency and Western countries had hoped the IAEArsquo;s governing board would give... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94931.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:35:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94786.php Ukrainersquo;s difficulty to make its ldquo;draconianrdquo; gas payments to Russia and refill its underground gas storage supplies for this winter may lead to another gas crisis that may indirectly affect gas supplies to the European Union Robert Shetler-Jones chief executive of Group DF that holds Ukrainian gas billionaire Dmitry Firtashrsquo;s... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94786.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:35:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94779.php A planned new nuclear reactor in Lithuania to serve all three Baltic states and Poland could be ready by 2018 Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said on June 11. ldquo;We expect that 2018 if work actually starts next year is a probable date for completing the power plant rdquo; Kubilius... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94779.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:18:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94778.php German energy giant E.ON AG agreed to sell 13 power plants to Austrian provider Verbund both companies announced on June 8. The companies did not release a sales price for the hydroelectric plants with a combined capacity of 312 megawatts located in the German state of Bavaria Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94778.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:17:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94777.php The European Commission on June 10 fined Belgian energy firm Electrabel 20 million Euro for failing to inform it of a takeover in France. The Commission has decided to fine Electrabel ldquo;for acquiring control of Compagnie Nationale du Rhocirc;ne CNR another electricity producer without having received prior approval rdquo; the... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94777.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:16:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94776.php For one month starting June 10 the regular gasoline purchased at a Shell service station in Ottawa Canada will contain 10 percent cellulosic ethanol Shell said in a press relase. The biofuel is produced locally from non-food raw materials at Iogen Energy Corporationrsquo;s demonstration plant using advanced conversion processes. Iogen... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94776.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:15:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94547.php The European Union the United States and Russia will hold detailed ministerial talks this week on Moscows bid to join the World Trade Organization WT0 .EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Russian Economy Minister Elvira Nabiullina will meet in the margins of the St... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94547.php Sun, 31 May 2009 23:32:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94546.php Russia supports cooperation on energy security between Russia the US and the EU Russiarsquo;s ambassador to Brussels Vladimir Chizov told reporters in Athens adding that Moscow is skeptical about any possible involvement of NATO. Any effort for international stability cannot exclude Russia specifically if it concerns the energy field he... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94546.php Sun, 31 May 2009 23:29:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94538.php The Ukrainian government made preliminary arrangements for the Libyan construction of petroleum refineries in Odessa following the meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her Libyan counterpart Baghdadi Mahmudi. The refineries will have the capacity to process roughly 73 million barrels of oil each year. Libyan officials are scheduled... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94538.php Sun, 31 May 2009 22:57:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94537.php The Czech Republic and Slovakia on May 29 signed a deal to pave the way for construction of a new nuclear reactor on the site of an old Soviet-era reactor partially-closed as part of Slovakias European Union accession deal. The reactor will be sited at Jaslovske Bohunice where Slovakia agreed... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94537.php Sun, 31 May 2009 22:56:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94100.php One of the worldrsquo;s most critical jobs especially now as Iran continues to forge ahead with its nuclear programme despite widespread criticism from the west is heading the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA and the race to succeed the outgoing director Mohamed ElBaradei now includes three European Union candidates one... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94100.php Sun, 03 May 2009 23:25:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94083.php Russia and Ukraine are currently preparing an intergovernmental agreement in the gas sector and have reached an agreement that Russian companies will participate in the upgrading of Ukrainersquo;s gas transportation system Russiarsquo;s Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko said in Sofia responding to a question from New Europe. ldquo;Now we are preparing an... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94083.php Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:23:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94077.php In the purchase by Kazakh national company KazMunaiGas KMG and China National Petroleum Corporation CNPC of 100 percent stock of the largest private oil producing company Mangistaumunaigas MMG the most desired asset - the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant PPP or the Pavlodar refinery - has remained untouched. KazMunaiGaz and CNPC Exploration... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94077.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94068.php Safety at the worldrsquo;s nuclear energy plants is much better than it was ten years ago but there are still ldquo;vulnerabilities rdquo; the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei said on April 20 in Beijing. ElBaradei was addressing an IAEA two-day international conference on atomic energy in... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94068.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:09:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94048.php The on-again off-again on-again nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union are on again and another round has been set. Iranrsquo;s chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had a telephone conversation following Iranrsquo;s announcement it was ready to resume nuclear talks with world... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94048.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:03:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93921.php Starting in 2013 up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce carbon dioxide CO2 emissions over the continentrsquo;s airspace by half a million tonnes a year by using a different landing approach and planning the use of bio-fuels aviation industry groups said. The plan to... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93921.php Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:11:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93763.php The European Commission needs to clear up a misunderstanding that angered Russia after the latter was left out of a gas transit deal between Ukraine and the EU last week a leading Russian energy economist told New Europe. EU and Ukrainian leaders pledged to work together on reforming Ukrainersquo;s gas... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93763.php Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:16:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93755.php It was major news at last weekrsquo;s summit of EU leaders that German Chancellor Angela Merkel turned about on her previous opposition to EU funding for the Nabucco pipeline to bring Caspian and possibly Middle Eastern natural gas to Europe. That which should have be most striking up to this... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93755.php Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:55:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93571.php Despite efforts to the contrary European Union leaders in Brussels have given final approval to 200 million of investment in the controversial Nabucco project mentioning the gas pipeline by name. This is a victory for the European Commission which now hopes that these funds will be used to raise more... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93571.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:54:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93213.php In an effort to support their biodiesel producers the European Union governments on March 3 voted to impose temporary antidumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on imports of US biodiesel. The vote follows repeated complaints from the European Biodiesel Board EBB over US subsidies for its domestic biodiesel producers news agencies reported.... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93213.php Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:42:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93158.php It is unlikely the European Union will face a new cutoff of gas supplies from Russia in March if Ukraine fails to pay its gas bills the European Commission said. ldquo;I personally donrsquo;t think so. None of the parts want to have another crisis again but itrsquo;s a fact that... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93158.php Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:28:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92993.php The European Union and Russia need to work together to resolve transit issues and develop some new institutional and regulator frameworks to prevent future crises ldquo;because the energy charter treaty simply did not work. It has shown its complete unhelpfulness rdquo; a leading Russian energy expert told New Europe on... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92993.php Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:39:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92647.php Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek last week toured energy-rich Kazakhstan Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan as part of his role as president of the EU council where he discussed cooperation particularly in the field of energy. The Caspian states which now mostly sell their gas to Russia are involved in planning for... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92647.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:36:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92646.php Washington has always looked at Kazakhstanrsquo;s rich hydrocarbon reserves as a potential source for US-backed pipeline projects in the region bypassing Russia. US Ambassador to Kazakhstan Richard E. Hoagland talked to New Europe correspondent Kulpash Konyrova in Astana about US President Barack Obamarsquo;s energy policy in the region the Russia-Ukraine... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) Energy http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92646.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:24:00 +0200