At the 8th annual European Gas Conference 2015, in Vienna, petroleum company Klaipėdos Nafta won the Project of the Year award for the implementation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal project. […]
The Emergency Call Centre received a phone call on Wednesday from a woman claiming there was a bomb placed underneath the floating LNG terminal in the seaport of Klaipėda, west Lithuania. Emergency services were alerted immediately and people evacuated from the embankment. No explosives were found. […]
Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lietuvos Energija energy company group, will start supplying natural gas to Estonia from February. Litgas is the first company in Lithuania and one of the first in the Baltics which will supply natural gas to customers in other countries, the company said. […]
An international delegation of UNESCO experts was on a visit in the Lithuanian Curonian Spit for a few days this week to check how the protected site is managed. The delegation organized the inspection in response to complaint from Russia, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
The liquefied natural gas terminal in Lithuania’s western port of Klaipėda is properly guarded, the country’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the port’s chief said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday accused Russia‘s gas giant Gazprom of using gas for political pressure after Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said in a discussion in Davos that alternatives to Russian gas would be more expensive for Europe. […]
A possibility to explore and extract shale gas interests several energy companies from the United States, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member states attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the West and to challenge Russia’s role in the former Soviet periphery. Their efforts along these lines will intensify this year. Ultimately, however, more powerful players in the standoff will limit the impacts of their efforts, particularly Germany and the United States. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday that the government has to give priority to completing ongoing energy projects, rather than thinking about new ones. […]
Six vessels are waiting to be cleared for entering the port of Klaipėda where ship traffic was partially restricted on Friday morning due to strong winds, the port’s authority said. […]
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda officially opened its commercial operations on the first day of 2015 to provide the first alternative to Russian gas. […]
Key tasks of the Lithuanian government next year will include search for new markets, fight against shadow economy and successful implementation of energy projects, the prime minister has said. […]
Launching of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that put an end to the monopoly of Russian and re-election of Dalia Grybauskaitė as Lithuania’s president for the second term were the most important events of the year 2014, Lithuanian journalists and editors say. […]
On Tuesday, liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Arctic Aurora delivered the first commercial shipment of gas to Lithuania’s LNG terminal. […]
The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]
If, hypothetically, Russia imposed a gas embargo on Lithuania and the country would have to look for alternatives at a 50-to-100-percent surcharge, then in the first year of such an embargo Lithuania’s economy would lose LTL 1.6-1.9 billion (EUR 467-550 million), which is about what the country has invested in the pipeline connections with Poland and the LNG terminal. […]
European Commission Vice-President of the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said on Friday at a conference in Tallinn that Estonia and Finland have to move forward fast with the LNG terminal project, because there is prevailing investment drought in Europe and no one is going to wait until Estonia and Finland finish deliberating different solutions, Aripaev Online reports. […]
Lithuania is already in a position to supply gas to Latvia and Estonia, however, Latvia’s stance, which remains unclear, raises concerns about free supply of gas to the Baltic countries, energy minister has said, adding that Latvia has assured that it will guarantee the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package. […]
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