Industry Developments

British major BP plans to appoint a new chief operating officer (C) in the first half of 2007 who will be primed to take over the top job once current chief executive Lord Browne... 2006-12-20

French oil major Total faces an embarrassing and potentially damaging investigation into its successful bid for development work on the South Pars gas field in Iran.

There are more bad portents for the Suez / Gaz de France (GdF) merger, with a UK-based newspaper indicating that the deal may collapse next year if it is not completed before the... 2006-12-19

Norway's principal energy groups, Statoil and Norsk Hydro , are to merge in a move that will create Western Europe's fourth largest oil and gas producer and a national energy 'champion'... 2006-12-18

Distrigas , the Belgian subsidiary of Suez Energy , which is currently in merger talks with Gaz de France has announced that it will import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from... 2006-12-14

The European Union (EU) is stepping up its investigation into the region's gas and electricity markets, most recently raiding the offices of Germany's four main utilities

The pre-budget report from UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown included no mention of financial support for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects, raising fears of further... 2006-12-11

The first commercial gas flows have begun through the Balgzand-Bacton (BBL) pipeline, opening up yet another source of external supply for the UK gas market. The Dutch owner of BBL,... 2006-12-01

As part of its plans to expand and modernise its gas network, Latvia's gas company Latvijas Gāze has announced that it will invest LVL46.3mn (US$87mn) on renovation at the... 2006-11-30

Norway is planning to build another gas pipeline to Europe, this time to export hydrocarbons produced from the Troll field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, according to Statoil's... 2006-11-22