BNS Estonia and Finland should manage to agree on a site for a regional liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal this year, Lithuania’s Energy Minister believes. The European Commission (EC) had set an initial deadline for an agreement by its summit due next week. “I’m not …
BNS Finland’s President, currently on a visit to Lithuania, believes that a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal being built in Klaipėda will not compete with the regional terminal planned to be built in the Gulf of Finland. “I have understood that there would be no …
BNS Plans by Lithuania’s government to scrap a so-called ‘25 percent rule’, under which large gas users will have to purchase 25 percent of their gas supplies from the future liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, are acceptable, EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said at a …
Yesterday Klaipėdos Nafta, Lithuania’s state-owned petroleum product terminal operator, signed a contract with German concern PPS Pipeline Systems GmbH who has won a tender for engineering, procurement and construction works of a natural gas pipeline system, the Baltic Course reports with reference to ELTA and …
BNS The Lithuanian government has not yet made its final decision on scrapping a requirement for large gas consumers to buy at least 25 percent of their gas from the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Thursday. The government …
BNS Trinidad and Tobago, a country in the Caribbean, is interested in selling liquefied natural gas to Lithuania, diplomats said on Wednesday. The issue was high on the agenda of a meeting between Lithuania’s Ambassador to the US Žygimantas Pavilionis and Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy …
BNS If Lithuania made any concessions to Gazprom and postponed the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package, it should also suspend the project on the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, chief adviser to Lithuania’s President, Nerijus Udrėnas, believes. “If …
BNS Lithuania plans does not plan to sign any new long-term supply contracts with Russia’s Gazprom, now Lithuania’s sole supplier of natural gas, after building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal by the end of 2014. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes that Moscow could offer …
The Lithuania Tribune presents the second part of the article written by Jonas Banys from www.delfi.lt about the current tendencies of Lithuania’s foreign allegiance. Read the first part BEMIP The mutual market with the Nordic countries is one of BEMIP’s key goals and a central …
This Tuesday on the radio show The Relevant Interview, Rokas Masiulis, the general director of the state-controlled oil loading company Klaipedos Nafta, stated that work on the LNG terminal will proceed as planned, reports DELFI. According to him, the only thing slightly impeding the …
Klaipedos Nafta AB, Lithuania’s state-controlled energy terminal operator, hired Latvian construction company AS BMGS to engineer and build port infrastructure for a new natural-gas terminal on the Baltic Sea, reports bnn-news. BMGS agreed to complete the work by Oct. 1, 2014 for a maximum price of …
The LNG terminal remains a strategic project for Lithuania, and a gas link with Poland would also be beneficial but the construction of it would take a bit longer, Nerijus Udrenas, chief adviser of the Economic And Social Policy Group at the Office of Lithuanian …
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius on Tuesday called a proposal by Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski to choose between the LNG terminal in Klaipeda and a gas link with Poland strange recommendations by the foreign minister of another state on state administration. “It’s very …
Lithuania should choose between a liquefied natural gas(LNG) terminal and a gas link to Poland, as both projects would not pay off, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said. “We think building the line and the liquefied natural gas(LNG) terminal in Lithuania would not be …
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski says he thinks that now that the parliamentary election in Lithuania is over, it is a very favorable time to reboot bilateral relations with Lithuania, reports ELTA cited by The Baltic Times. “Lithuania had a parliamentary election during which the ethnic …
Klaipedos Nafta of Lithuania said it has reopened bidding for a contract to link an LNG terminal to Lithuania ’s grid after complaints about a previous change of the tender terms, writes LNG World News. “AB Klaipedos Nafta, executing the obligations, indicated in the letter …
Yesterday, the Lithuania Tribune sat down with the President of the Institute of Energy Policy, Mr. Vladimir Milov, in an exclusive in-depth interview. Several issues were discussed and the Tribune presents a preview of some key points explored in our conversation. The Lithuania Tribune (LT): …
Lithuania and Poland will together turn to the European Commission (EC) and ask for the European Union’s (EU) financial support to the projected gas pipeline, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said after meeting with his Polish counterpart. “We had a superb conversation about linking the …
The price of natural gas for Lithuania may go down if Russia’s gas concern Gazprom sought to maintain good economic relations with the Baltic country, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has said. Otherwise, the price of gas would only decline after the construction of a liquefied …
Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovic held a working meeting with Alexander Medvedev, vice-president of Russia’s gas concern Gazprom, in Vilnius last week and no specific decisions had been taken, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said. “It was a working meeting and I think there will be more …
