Competition works, but liberalization is still far from being completed (EBC, Aug 30)
This is the brief description of the situation in Romania’s energy markets – electricity and natural gas, a description which…
Despite new U.S. sanctions, Russian oil traders say it’s business as usual
Russian oil companies will quickly find ways to work around tighter restrictions imposed this month by the United States on…
Paul, INACO: A politically controlled monopoly on the gas market and the nationalization of the BRM ring should be avoided
Turning OPCOM into a single operator of centralized wholesale gas and electricity markets would be a mistake because nothing good…
Gazprom postpones by two years the launch of Yuzhno-Kirinskoye gas field
Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to launch the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye gas field offshore Russia’s Sakhalin island in the Pacific in 2023,…
Rosneft continues expanding, on Monday it took over Essar Oil of India
Essar Oil announced it has finalized the sale of its assets in India to a consortium led by Russian oil…
Upetrom enters insolvency due to losses
Upetrom 1 Mai, a company owned by Gabriel Comănescu, went into insolvency due to losses, which last year amounted to…
Energy Ministry wants new board members at Oil Terminal
The Ministry of Energy, as a major shareholder, has called for the convening of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders…
The Government is meeting today with professional associations to transpose the Alternative Fuels Directive
Bogdan Tudorache An inter-ministerial commission will meet on Tuesday to discuss the final snapshots of the National Policy Framework, the…
Rompetrol’s shareholder, CEFC, in early talks to buy Rosneft stake
CEFC China Energy, which has grown from a niche oil trader to a sprawling energy conglomerate, is in talks to…
Gazprom expects no changes to key projects from new US sanctions
Gazprom said on Aug. 14 that new U.S. sanctions against Moscow would not result in the Russian gas exporter having…
Taxation and political instability impede Upstream development of the Black Sea (Aleksandrs Popovics, Wood Mackenzie)
Wood Mackenzie has recently published an exhaustive report about the hot upstream projects currently explored in the Black Sea with…
Romania imported 11% less oil in H1
Romania imported in the first half of this year a quantity of crude oil of 3.317 million tonnes, with 415,200…
Rompetrol Rafinare closes first semester with a net loss of $ 7 million
Rompetrol Rafinare, a KMG International group member company, registered a gross consolidated turnover worth USD 1.7 billion in the first…
Gazprom Neft to boost dividends as output growth beats peers
Gazprom Neft PJSC, the oil unit of Russia’s biggest natural-gas exporter, is set to boost dividends over the next few…