Norway's preliminary production figures for April 2020 show an average daily production of 2 117 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate,

Denmark's energy islands are an important part of climate action plan

Gazprom will not renew a gas transit deal with Poland, which expires in May 2020.

In November 2019, the German parliament modified the Energy Industry Act to transpose the European Gas Directive that was amended in April 2019.

“We have to see that Chinese companies, partly with the support of state funds, are increasingly trying to buy up European companies that are cheap to acquire or that got into economic difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis,”

France has 57 reactors that supply round-the-clock low-carbon electricity to more than three-quarters of the country's population and more than 250 of its industrial energy users at 530 sites

The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 1.4%

The Nord Stream 2 operating company has declined to give any guidance on the schedule for completing the pipeline, saying only that it was "actively looking for solutions" to finish the pipelaying work.

The German government expects the economy, which has traditionally been dependent on exports, is expected to shrink by a post-World War Two record of 6.3% despite a massive rescue package of 750 billion euros to cushion the impact of the pandemic.

Shell and Eneco are participating in the tender for Hollandse Kust (noord) through their joint venture CrossWind.

The Saint-Brieuc wind farm will be constructed some 16 kilometres (9.94 miles) off the coast of Brittany. It will be equipped with 62 units of 8-MW turbines supplied by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (BME:SGRE).

The supplies were the lowest since October last year when Norway delivered just 7.39 Bcm to the UK and Continental Europe.

Sterling rose 0.2% against the weaker dollar, at $1.2443. As the euro also strengthened versus the dollar, the pound was down around 0.3% versus the euro at 87.335 pence.

The pan-European STOXX 600 held at a near seven-week high with a 0.7% gain,

Germany's economy shrank by 1.9% in the first three months of 2020