Germany

Germany's EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg has temporarily abandoned plans to acquire a direct stake in domestic gas distributor Verbundnetz Gas (VNG), according to a report in... 2009-11-23

Danish state-owned DONG Energy has said that it will activate an option agreed under its original gas supply contract from 2006 with Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom to double... 2009-10-05

Germany's E.ON Ruhrgas has announced that it and its partner Wingas have launched the planning approval process for the section of the Norddeutsche Erdgasleitung (NEL) that... 2009-09-08

India's Essar has reportedly launched a bid for three of Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell 's European refineries, according to a report in the Financial Times (FT).

Norway's StatoilHydro has made a hydrocarbons discovery in the Norwegian section of the North Sea with preliminary estimates suggesting 3-10bcm of recoverable gas.

Finland could give its approval for the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline by June 2009, according to a Kremlin official quoted by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

Since the latest Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, companies have been pushing ahead with constructing new or expanding existing gas pipelines and gas interconnections across Europe.