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Gazprom’s Gas Output to Rise to Around 416 Bcm in 2024
Date: December 27, 2024
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Miller, the head of Russia’s Gazprom, said on Thursday the group’s natural gas production is set to rise this year by 61 billion cubic metres (bcm) to around 416 bcm. The increase is from an all-time low production in loss-making 2023, when output plummeted by 13% amid a fall in gas...
Woodside and Tokyo Gas in Discussions Over Stake in US Lng Project
Date: October 31, 2024
By Curtis Williams and David French HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tokyo Gas is in talks with Woodside Energy over taking a stake in a multi-billion-dollar Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Woodside, an Australian oil and gas producer, this month closed on a $1.2 billion buy...
Explainer-What’s on the Agenda at the U.N.’s COP15 Nature Summit?
Date: December 6, 2022
By Gloria Dickie MONTREAL (Reuters) – A key United Nations summit to halt nature loss begins this week in Montreal, Canada. Delegates from nearly 200 countries will spend two weeks hashing out a new global deal to protect the world’s struggling species and fast-vanishing wild places. Here is what you need to know: WHAT IS...
U.N. Summit Aims for Global Pact to Protect Nature
Date: December 6, 2022
By Gloria Dickie and Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Countries are gathering Tuesday for a key U.N. nature conference in Montreal, aiming to broker a new global agreement to protect what’s left of Earth’s wildlife and natural spaces. Negotiators hope that the two-week summit, known as COP15, yields a deal that ensures there is more...
TotalEnergies, Eni Announce Major Cyprus Gas Find
Date: August 22, 2022
By Juliette Portala and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – TotalEnergies of France and Italy’s Eni on Monday announced a significant natural gas discovery at the Cronos-1 well off Cyprus. The island reported its first natural gas discovery, Aphrodite, in 2011, measuring around 4.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) and now run by U.S. energy firm Chevron....
Diamond Miner De Beers Returns to Angola After Ten-Year Absence
Date: April 20, 2022
LUANDA (Reuters) -Diamond miner De Beers has signed two mineral investment contracts with the Angolan government, the Anglo American subsidiary said on Wednesday, in a return to the southern African country it left in 2012. The contracts, for licence areas in the northeast, are for 35 years and give De Beers the rights to explore...