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In October 2017, Turkey imported 4.137 billion cubic meters of gas, up 19.% in comparison to 3.641 billion cubic meters in October 2016.

FINTECC grant will help poultry producer launch new technologies, improve energy management

At the One Planet summit in December in Paris, Environment Minister László Sólymos declared 2023 as the target year for Slovakia’s coal phase-out in both the mining and power sectors.

Loans from European institutional banks for the implementation of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline may be involved but only if the project overcomes all challenges and goes ahead, Alexei Grivach, Deputy Director General for gas issues at the National Energy Security Fund of Russia, told Azernews.

European Union lawmakers reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday (19 December) on some key parts of a draft law that will facilitate the renovation of Europe’s existing building stock, with the aim of reaching nearly zero energy buildings by 2050, EU sources said.

The world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, China, has launched the world’s biggest ever mechanism to reduce carbon, in the form of an emissions trading system.

Eni SpA has inked an agreement to divest 98.99% of Tigaz Zrt, a natural gas distributor in north-eastern Hungary, to MET Holding AG.

Venezuela has awarded licences to Russian energy giant Rosneft to develop two offshore gas fields.

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions shrank 0.2 percent in fiscal 2016 from the previous year to 1.32 billion tons, declining for the third consecutive year, Environment Ministry data showed Tuesday.

Energy ministers from the 28 EU member states are expected to steer clear of potentially divisive talks on the bloc’s renewable energy target for 2030 in order to agree a “general approach” when they meet in Brussels next Monday (18 December).

The World Bank said on Tuesday it will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from certain gas projects in the poorest countries in exceptional circumstances.

ICGB, the project company for the new gas connection with Greece, has published a public procurement contract for the project pipelines. The estimated value is EUR 60 million (excluding VAT) for pipes with a nominal diameter DN 800/32, announcement of the company shows.

Australia’s emissions over the past year were the highest on record, when relatively unreliable emissions from land use are excluded, according to estimates by the carbon consultancy NDEVR Environmental.

A potential undersea pipeline carrying natural gas from deposits in the eastern Mediterranean to Europe is "very realistic" and could help secure the continent's energy future, Israel's energy minister said Tuesday.

Exxon Mobil is considering a foray into Egypt offshore oil and gas, seeking to replicate rivals’ success in the country and boost its reserves, officials and industry sources said.

The meeting took place on 30 November 2017 at the premises of the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia (AERS) in Belgrade. 

The EBRD is releasing fresh funds under its Ukraine Residential Energy Efficiency Financing Facility (UREEFF) to support better use of energy in the country.

The European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) has voted on a new binding renewable energy target of 35% by 2030.

In May, Black Sea Oil & Gas said it aimed to start production at two gas fields off Romania by 2019, becoming the first company to tap the country’s offshore resources.

Ukrenergo has announced a tender for the purchase of transformer equipment for the following substations: 330 kV Zaliutyne, 750 kV Zaporizka and 750 kV Dniprovska, according to the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.