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

Federal Cabinet launches LNG Acceleration Act

Against the backdrop of uncertain Russian energy imports, the German cabinet has approved - in a written circulation procedure - the "Formulation aid for the draft law on accelerating the use of liquefied natural gas (LNGG)". In essence, it is…

Sale of OMV service stations in Germany completed - AVIA takes over 46 stations

Austrian energy and chemicals group OMV has completed the sale of its service station business in Germany effective May 1, 2022. In February, the German Federal Cartel Office had approved the planned acquisition of the service station network of OMV…