Moldovan media reports that Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean has asked Justice Minister Veronica Mihailov-Moraru to revise the nationalization legislation. The prime minister appealed after Russian Gazprom announced that it would stop supplying natural gas to Moldovagaz from January 1, 2025, allegedly because of the company’s debt. “For the first time, the Kremlin’s political ‘clowns […]

Ukrainian VTP prices are converging with EU values Falling prices could incentivise return to free market rules Gas Traders of Ukraine CEO says softening supply risks could see cross-border trading resume LONDON (ICIS)–Ukraine could lift gas trading regulatory restrictions and revert to free market arrangements as a window of opportunity is opening up, the CEO […]

It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies Europe had weathered one winter since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But although gas prices had returned to Earth, they were sure to rise in the colder months to come. Thus if commodity merchants bought at rock-bottom rates in the summer, they could […]

August 24 marked Ukraine’s 31st Independence Day, and the passage of six months since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression aiming to end that independence. To shed light on who purchases Russiaʼs oil, gas and coal, and how the volume and value of imports have changed since the start of the invasion, the Centre for Research […]

Congratulations to the participants of the meeting!   I am very glad to see everyone alive and well, this is extremely important in times of aggression against Ukraine. I will say the banal truth that russian aggression against our country would be impossible without huge revenues that our northern neighbor has received, is receiving and […]

FRANKFURT, April 4 (Reuters) – Gazprom Germania, an energy trading, storage and transmission business ditched by Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on Friday, will be transferred to Germany’s regulator to ensure energy security, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday. All voting rights in the company will be moved to the regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, Habeck told a news conference. […]

German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, of the Green Party, has returned from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He spoke to DW about gas deals, Russia and the state of Germany’s coalition government. For three days, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck traveled around the Arab world while a war raged in Europe. The Green […]

LONDON (ICIS)–Ukraine should pay more for EU-sourced gas if it is short due to the rerouting of transit to Nord Stream 2, rather than buy volumes directly from Russia, the head of the Association Gas Traders of Ukraine told ICIS. The pending completion of the Russian pipeline via the Baltic Sea to Germany could create a […]