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By Rhod Mackenzie

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its recent long-term forecast, World Energy Outlook. According to the report Russia's gas industry faces a bleak future with its market share predicted to decrease by half on the global platform. It is crucial to determine the ev...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The International Gas Union (IGU), the trade association representing the global gas industry, cautions about the possibility of diminishing gas supplies in upcoming decades without further investment. The repercussions of such a drop in supply are clear, particularly the price...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Europe may have found a previously an unforeseen solution to the challenge facing it of providing the continent with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and it has appeared in the form of Qatar. It has been reported that Doha still requires customers for two-thirds of its LNG supply, wh...

By Rhod Mackenzie

One of the largest trading firms in Japan, which also deals in energy resources, opines that natural gas in general and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in particular will not be sufficient for the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, due to its high demand.

"Th...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia is concerned about the reports of damage to the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, especially given the terrorist attacks previously against the Nord Stream pipelines. The Finnish authorities have not ruled out the possibility of sabotage, while some in the West spe...

By Rhod Mackenzie

"The European press acknowledges the scarcity of Russian diesel fuel as one of the primary destabilising factors in the European economy. It's not just diesel that Europe lacks, but also liquefied natural gas, which is another crucial Russian resource that European rates of consu...