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Domestic consumption of electricity has grown significantly in July 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
The domestic consumption of electricity has grown significantly in July 2015, due to the very high weather, and has reached 6,474 MW monthly average, very close to the highest value in the past four years peak of 6,635 MW, recorded in July 2012, according to a report released by Transelectrica, Romania's electricity transmission and system ...
Lower tariffs on volumes of natural gas transported, while strong increases for reserving pipeline capacity
Thursday, September 3, 2015
ANRE set new regulated tariffs for natural gas transmission through National Transmission System, for the period October 2015 – September 2016. Against the previous regulated period (July 2014 – September 2015), is noticed a reduction of tariffs for transportation services. The volumetric rate for the amount of natural gas transported to distribution systems is down from 5.04 to 3.63 lei/MWh, while the volumetric rate for the amount of natural gas transported only ...
EurActiv: Eni announces discovery of huge gas field off Egypt’s coast
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Italian energy group Eni says it has found one of the world's largest natural gas fields off Egypt's coast. The company said the area was 1,450m (4,757 feet) beneath the surface and covered 100 sq km (39 sq miles). It could hold as much as 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, or 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Eni said. 30 trillion cubic feet is the equivalent of 850 billion cubic metres. In ...
Bulgaria offers Azerbaijan ‘a package’ of energy projects
Thursday, September 3, 2015
The Bulgarian government has proposed a package of energy cooperation projects to Azerbaijan, EurActiv.com reports. It remains unclear if the massive deal is part of a swap of property linked to a plan to divest 17% of Azerbaijan’s shares of Greek gas operator DEFSA to a third country. Bulgaria is reported to have invited Azerbaijan to participate in the construction of filling stations, and to invest in the construction of oil and gas storage ...
AP: Dozens of miners protest at metal mine in northwest Romania
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Officials in Romania say 25 miners are protesting more than 200 meters (650 feet) down in a mine, complaining that authorities will not give them an operating license, AP agency reports. Mine manager Gabriela Dobrota said a further 79 miners joined the protest on Wednesday, gathering outside the Baita Plai mine some 520 kilometers (325 miles) northwest of ...
Gov’t passes agreement with Moldova on gas, power grid interconnection
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Romanian Government on Wednesday passed an agreement concluded on May 21 with the Government of the Republic of Moldova on the achievement of projects for the interconnection of the natural gas and electricity grids of the two countries, Agerpres informs. “In the area of natural gas, the parties agreed to prioritise works for the Iasi — Ungheni interconnection, namely the Ungheni — Iasi pipeline on Moldova’s soil and the ...
Transgaz forecasts a total demand for natural gas of 6.437 million MWh in September
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Transgaz, the national gas transmission and system operator, forecasts a total demand for natural gas of 6.437 million MWh in September, according to data submitted to the Regulatory Authority for Energy ...
MOL Group invites entrepreneurs to apply for the management of 35 service stations in its extended Romanian network
Thursday, August 27, 2015
MOL Group will harmonize the management platforms of the service stations in its Romanian retail network and invites entrepreneurs and companies to apply for the management of the service stations taken over in February, by September 4, 2015, the company informs. “Most MOL Romania service stations operate under the CODO platform – Company Owned, Dealer Operated, while the network acquired in February is managed via various platforms. ...
Romania to pay E.ON charges worth 2 mln. euro
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Romanian state will have to pay the German energy company E.ON compensation of 2 million euros, which represents the costs of a dispute that Romania has filed at an arbitration court in Paris and lost it. The state accused E.ON that it has not made the promised investments in the privatization contract of the former Electrica Moldova and asked the German company to pay 33 million euros. But the Paris Commercial Court gave credit to the germans of ...
Kyoto protocol's carbon credit scheme ‘increased emissions by 600m tonnes’
Thursday, August 27, 2015
A key carbon offsetting scheme was so open to abuse that three quarters of its allowances lacked environmental integrity, a new report says. UN officials confirm the findings by the Stockholm Environment Institute that around 600 million tonnes of carbon were wrongly emitted as a result, under the UNFCCC’s Joint Implementation (JI) scheme. An estimated 80% of JI projects were of low environmental quality, according to ...
EU anxious ahead of COP21 conference
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The EU warned last Thursday (20 August) that the window of opportunity for December's United Nations Climate Change Conference was closing fast, urging the 140+ countries that have not yet made public their contributions to do so, naming some of the major players. Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete met the Brussels press today, just over 100 days before the conference, also known ...
RWEA:Fewer than 1pct of Romania's wind turbines are used
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Fewer than 1pct of Romania's wind turbines are used, namely 20 MW of 2976,8 MW installed on July 1, 2015, according to the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA) ...
Romanian green power sector literally being dismantled as developer tears down turbines
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Problems facing the Romanian renewable power sector have cut so deep that one of the country’s wind power developers has taken the unusual step of disassembling one of its wind farms, and is believed to be planing the relocation of the turbines to another country, icis.com comments. Renewable energy developers have taken several hits over the last two years, with the government attracting criticism on what is now perceived as severe regulatory ...
KMG International has invested in Romania over 1.56 billion dollars in the last seven years
Thursday, August 20, 2015
KMG International (former Rompetrol Group) has invested in Romania over 1.56 billion dollars in the last seven years, and of that amount 600 million dollars targeted environment management, shows the company's Sustainable Development ...
Two units at the Cernavoda nuclear-power plant put out 6.566 million MWh worth of electricity in the first seven months of 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015
The two units at the Cernavoda nuclear-power plant put out 6.566 million MWh worth of electricity in the first seven months of 2015, 6.043 million MWH of which were fed into the national electricity grid of Romania, according to data posted on the website of ...
Net coal production totalled 2.229 million tonnes in H1 of 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Romania's net coal production totalled 2.229 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) in H1, by 3.4pct (73,800 toe) higher from H1 2014, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics ...
Oil, Gas Explorations in Black Sea to Begin in February 2016 – Bulgarian PM
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced on Saturday that the oil and gas explorations in the continental shelf of the Black Sea will begin in February next year. Borisov said that if his first government had not been forced to resign in ...
Gas imports down 78.4pct, in H1 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Romania imported in the first six months of 2015 a volume of 66,700 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) usable natural gas, down by 78.4 per cent (242,300 toe) compared with the quantity imported in the similar period of 2014, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The domestic natural gas production in the first half of 2015 totalled over 4.38 million toe, being by 32,300 toe (0.7 per cent) under that recorded in the period January-June ...
Romania imported 3.222 million tonnes of oil equivalent in H1 of the year
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Romania imported 3.222 million tonnes of oil equivalent in the first half of the year, by 222,500 toe (7.4pct) more than it imported in last Jan.-June, show figures centralized by the National Institute of ...
Analysis: Operators planning more than 6,500 miles of offshore pipelines through 2019
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Operators and developers are studying, planning, and building just over 6,577 mi (10,582 km) of oil and gas pipelines to bring these supplies from offshore fields to onshore markets. The total reflects a decrease from last year’s offshore pipeline construction survey, which showed a total of 7,057 mi (11,355 km). This year’s total represents a 6.8% decrease over last year. The decrease is largely driven by the removal of the long-planned ...