Russian natural gas exports to European consumer nations via Ukraine remained stable on Monday, a spokesman for state-controlled gas producer Gazprom said
Tehran, YJC. While Turkey is trying via international arbitration to get Iranian gas for less, Iran says it will agree to Turkey only if doubling export.
Europe will have trouble weaning itself off Russian natural gas, analysts say, as its faces declining production at home and Asian competition for supplies.
Tehran, YJC. The construction of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from Iran to Iraq will be completed by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2013), says an official.
Marathon talks between Ukraine and Russia to resolve a bitter gas dispute broke up without a deal, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said, with negotiations set to resume later Tuesday or Wednesday.
Ukraine will have to buy natural gas from Russia even at $500 per 1,000 cubic meters should Moscow set such a price, Ukrainian parliament-appointed prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Ukrainian television.
Crimea provides itself with gas fully; if Kiev should try to disrupt electricity supply, that would be regarded as sabotage Crimea's Head of Government said.
Kurdish regional administration PM Nechirvan Barzani said the energy deals they signed with Turkey are the start of a new Iraq and there is no need for fear.
Lithuania's president says that Russia, in an effort to maintain influence over territories that were once part of the Soviet Union, has set out to make the Baltic states "unreliable partners" for NATO and the European Union.