Shale gas provides largest share of U.S. natural gas production in 2013

The South Stream project is continuing as planned, an official of the Russian Energy Ministry's pool and gas department said on Monday

TOTAL Senior Vice President on Strategy and Business Intelligence, Mrs. Helle Kristoffersen, stressed the importance of addressing Europe’s gas supply amidst the current crisis between Russia and Ukraine, speaking on the session panel on Global Energy Security, Supply and Demand at the Abu-Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference on November 12, 2014.

Technip, Europe’s biggest oil and gas services group by market capitalisation, has made a €1.47bn cash bid for French seismic surveyor CGG, but the offer was rebuffed on Thursday.

Ineos, the Swiss-based chemicals company, has entered the race to develop UK reserves of shale gas, unveiling ambitious plans on Thursday to spend $1bn on exploration in coming years.

China's energy targets for 2020, if assumed to be credible and achievable, give a clear indication of likely winners and losers.

Cheap takeover targets in bombed-out sectors of the market have driven M&A activity to seven-year highs in 2014, with oil and gas sector deals coming in at a rate not seen on records going back to the 1970s

Russia may pivot to the east but it cannot escape its European destiny

Demand for Russian gas is still there

The real threat for gas in Europe does not come from Russia, but from internal mechanisms that keep giving an edge to coal.