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Norway's giant Troll gas field starts third stage of production

Norway on Friday began to pump natural gas from the third stage of its offshore Troll field, a development that will extend the deposit’s producing lifetime beyond 2050, operator Equinor said on Monday.

read more... 31/08/2021

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French grid operator’s ‘software-controlled battery experiment’ begins

A grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) has come online in northeastern France, which will be used by the national transmission grid operator RTE to assess the role of automated electricity storage in managing power flows.

read more... 27/07/2021

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Gazprom’s Russian June offtake to fall from May

Russian state-controlled Gazprom's domestic gas production is on track to fall in June from the previous month, but the decline would be the second smallest between May and June since 2011, suggesting that the firm may be producing closer to its capacity than in previous years.

read more... 28/06/2021

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Environmental group sues for Nord Stream 2 cancellation

German environmental group Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has amended a lawsuit filed last year against Russian state-controlled Gazprom's 55bn m³/yr Nord Stream 2 project to seek a permanent construction freeze that would cancel the project.

read more... 11/05/2021

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Austria's OMV completes Nord Stream 2 loan

Austrian integrated oil and gas firm OMV is the latest financing partner on Russian state-controlled Gazprom's 55bn m³/yr Nord Stream 2 pipeline to confirm that disbursements to the project have ended.

read more... 09/04/2021

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