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Increasing consumption boosts gas transit via Slovakia
Slovak natural gas transmission system operator Eustream has been boosting the volume of gas shipped across Slovakia year after year.
read more... 28/09/2018
Power interconnector between Germany and Netherlands goes live
A new power interconnector between Germany and the Netherlands will go-live today, boosting transmission capacity between the countries by up to 750MW.
read more... 27/08/2018
Gas transmission via Nord Stream Pipeline has resumed
All planned maintenance works on the Nord Stream twin gas pipelines have been successfully concluded within the scheduled time frame. Gas transmission resumed today and the full capacity of both pipelines is now available again.
read more... 06/08/2018
Germany buys 20% in transmission system operator to prevent Chinese investment
Germany’s state investment bank, KfW, is purchasing a 20% stake in one of the country largest transmission system operators in order to block a Chinese company from acquiring the company. The reasons given are national security concerns, Bloomberg reports.
read more... 30/07/2018
EU and Ukraine in tug of war over Naftogaz unbundling
The European Commission has repeated its insistence on breaking up the Ukrainian national gas and oil monopoly Naftogaz, separating transmission from production and supply, which the country had agreed to as a condition for receiving massive Western financing. Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, in charge of the EU’s Energy Union, is in talks in Berlin with Russian and Ukrainian counterparts to try to solve disputes over future Russian gas shipments via Ukraine.
read more... 19/07/2018