Newsletter
Newsfeed- Kier BAM JV wins GBP100m service contract from EDF Energy
- Siemens, Prysmian secure $1.5bn contract for subsea electricity link
- Shell offers £1bn for Cove Energy February 22, 2012
- Cove Energy: shelling out for gas February 22, 2012
- GDF SUEZ continues to expand wind energy in Europe launching 100 MW of projects in Romania and ... February 1, 2012
- 2011: Strong set of results in a difficult environment confirming GDF SUEZ long term strategy February 9, 2012
Category Archives: Gas
European Gas operators are merging in preparation for Nord Stream, then Nabucco and South Stream
This article is also published in French and Italian on the blog of Sia Conseil and Sia Partners. As the third Energy package (passed in July 2009) creates a single market for gas and electricity, gas consumption in Europe is … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Gas, Transport
1 Comment
Competing gas pipeline projects offer Europe various means to ensure its gas supply
The North Stream1 gas pipeline was inaugurated on November 8, 2011. This investment of 8.8 billion euros will allow Russia to take of share of 30% of the European market starting from 2012. No wonder the majority shareholder of North … Continue reading
Posted in Gas, Mecanism
Leave a comment
Methane hydrates: what future for this other unconventional gas?
Everyone knows shale gas and the regular controversy it causes because of its potential negative effects on the environment, but our planet has other deposits of equally fascinating unconventional gas sources. A particular example is methane hydrates, which are found … Continue reading
Posted in Gas
Leave a comment
Offshore Oil&Gas: a renewable energy?
This article won the second award in the framework of the “Génération Energies” contest on the “Enertopia” topic: if you imagine the energy landscape in 2050, organized by Sia Conseil, L’Expansion and RTE. The IEA announces in its last annual … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energies, Gas
Leave a comment
The need for gas storage…
Because of both the growing de-correlation of market prices with those of long-term contracts and issues of energy security, the need for traders to diversify their sources of gas supply appears to be inevitable. Indeed, players involved in the gas … Continue reading
Posted in Gas
Leave a comment
Gas against nuclear, new energy battle
Besides the citizen debate on nuclear power, how will respond the global market players of electricity production? Even if it is too early to assess the real consequences of the Fukushima accident, there is but no doubt they will analyze … Continue reading
Posted in Gas, Nuclear
Leave a comment
What future for the strategic LNG industry?
To meet the growing energy demand and to anticipate a decline in domestic production, developed countries have initiated, 30 years ago, a reorganization of their trade with the producer countries. Indeed, in their energy mix, the emergence of the natural … Continue reading
Unconventional gas reshapes the Geopolitics and Energy map
“A slight ripple was escaping from it, a little noise, like a whistling bird. – Put your hand, you feel the wind … It is Grisou. “(Zola, Germinal).For the past two years, more than half of U.S. natural gas production … Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Gas, Geo-politics, Mecanism, Pricing, Production
Leave a comment
Europe and Russian Natural Gas
The worldwide financial crisis is hurting any business. However, in matter of energy, Russia is still the great giant that makes half of Europe tremble. As leader in gas production and generating 60% of its gas revenues in Europe, Moscow … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Gas, Geo-politics, Utilities
1 Comment
Why prices of gas transport will continue to increase?
Characterized by a low carbon footprint and a very interesting ratio investment for transformation, natural gas appears as an essential actor in the worldwide electricity growing’s demand. For the different parties that gave up nuclear energy, natural gas is a … Continue reading
sending...