Two days under the sign of hydrogen

More speed - the third H2 Forum in Berlin was well attended

De facto ban on combustion engines: fuel industry hopes for correction by EU Council of Ministers

The EU Parliament's decision to impose a de facto ban on new registrations of internal combustion vehicles from 2035 has met with widespread rejection from both the automaker and fuel industries. In addition to criticism from the European Automobile…

Natural Gas

Permit for natural gas field off Borkum extended

The companies ONE-Dyas and Hansa Hydrocarbons want to explore for and extract hydrocarbons in the coastal waters of the German North Sea in Lower Saxony. The Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) has now issued a permit to…

Companies

LBEG Annual Report 2021: Domestic oil production continues to decline

Since the start of the Ukraine war, special attention has also been paid to the development of domestic energy raw materials, which have so far been sourced mainly from Russia. Against this background, the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology…

Natural Gas

Ørsted and Shell no longer receive gas from Gazprom

Gazprom Export has suspended its gas supplies to the Danish energy group Ørsted and to Shell Energy Europe as of June 1. The Russian gas company justifies the step by saying that both companies did not want to pay in rubles. Both Ørsted and Shell…

Current issue

EEK 7-8/23

Topics of the current issue

Deep Geothermal Energy - Geothermal Energy Market Turkey - Status and Development of Hydrothermal Power Generation
Deep geothermal energy - With GRE to corrosion-resistant casing systems - Casing systems made of glass-fibre reinforced plastic
Exploration and Production - Foreign Activities of German and Austrian Oil/Natural Gas Producers

News

Gas import price rushes from record to record

There is nothing surprising about the preliminary data from the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) on German natural gas import volumes and prices. The gas import price reached a new high for another month in a row in December. Compared with November, it rose by another 1,886 € – and thus by 20.5% – to 14,791 € per TJ (equivalent to around 5.32 cents per kWh). Compared to December 2020 ...

Saudi Arabia announces increase in oil and gas production capacity

At the opening of the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) 2022, which will be held in Riyadh from February 20-23, the Saudi energy minister announced a continuation of investment in oil and gas production - coupled with an increase in production capacity ...