Lobbying for the Nabucco Gas Pipieline  

28 January 2009

The Hungarian Prime Minister called upon the EU to contribute 200-300 million Euros to the Nabucco gas pipeline project during a 1 day conference held in Budapest on Tuesday.  read more...

Calls for EU Energy Strategy  

14 January 2009

The agreement between Russia and Ukraine was short lived and has prompted talks about the need to start an EU energy strategy  read more...

Russian/Ukraine Dispute Ripples Now Being Felt  

07 January 2009

Despite western Europe's efforts to weather the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, the vibrations of the fallout have now been felt in the energy markets.  read more...

Russia & Ukraine Battle it Out  

02 January 2009

Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have been steadily increasing over the past few months as the two economies battle it out over debt repayment, gas flows, charges and threats of supply cuts.  read more...

Yet Another Record for Oil  

22 May 2008

A new record was again set for oil on Thursday when prices reached above $135 a barrel. Is increased output likely to ease pressure?  read more...

Ukraine and Russia continue to fight  

08 February 2008

Balkan energy policy is heavy with the stench of politcial interference.  read more...

Short term gas looks rosy  

21 August 2007

A recent report suggests that there will be over supply in the gas market and this will feed in particularly hard in 2009.  read more...

Prices slide  

17 July 2007

The gas market has been sold off a little on the back of oil price falls today.  read more...

Gas and emissions part.  

16 July 2007

Gas and emissions do opposite things but there is a sense of fear over supply worries at Bacton and what the russians could do.  read more...

Russia's Hold on Gas  

30 May 2007

With the UK increasingly dependent on imported gas, seeing Russia squeeze out foreign investors in order to regain state control of energy assets has to be a concern.   read more...

Gaspec  

18 April 2007

Gaspec could compete with Opec with Russia becoming the new Saudi Arabia, it is unlikely but watch this space.  read more...

Russian spooks  

09 January 2007

Russian oil cust unlikely to massively effect the UK power market.  read more...

Market bounces  

14 December 2006

The market moves up on buyer pressure and oil and gas fears from abroad.  read more...

Gazprom rattles its sabre  

20 April 2006

The Gazprom debacle is going to rage on the UK government is performing more and more like a chinese protection racket, however the Russians are behaving more like the mafia with threats of cutting of supply.  read more...

Security of supply expected to dominate 2006  

04 January 2006

A year of investment and short term uncertaintity ahead of us. Customers have to be more bold at making decisions and placing bids in the market. This will give them confidence and the market liquidity and stability. This allows growth in options markets and allows the market to develop.  read more...

Prices rise on more buyers coming out of the woodwork.  

30 November 2005

Still too many uncertaintities that buyers accept that a small dip in price is worth buying up. The sellers are sitting on the hands whilst the buyers try and look relaxed when buying, but everyone knows that they are not.  read more...