In the Government’s session last Thursday, PM Algirdas Butkevičius, responding to questions from his coalition colleague Andrius Mazuronis, said that the Ministry of Energy is currently being audited, writes Dainius Kreivys in DELFI. Although the audit is not over yet, PM Butkevičius says in advance …
Lithuania’s former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius says that “capitulation” would be to start paying Nukem, the contractor for much-delayed decommissioning projects at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), for work it has not done. Kubilius, the leader of the opposition at the Seimas, said this in …
Norwegian energy group Statoil is interested in building process of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Lithuania, and for further agreements it will negotiate at the enterprise level, said Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas after the government meeting, wrote delfi.lt on 16 April. According to the minister, after the meeting with Norwegian Minister of Energy and the business community, it can be said that …
By Rimvydas Valatka, published in 15min.lt on 16 April Stamping on her little foot that she won’t go to Poland and making barmy nationalists very happy, the President has announced that she is joining Energy Minister Sekmokas on a business trip to Qatar. To negotiate …
At the end of April, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will be on a working visit to Qatar. In this small but wealthy country negotiations will take place about a gas supply to Lithuania through the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, delfi.lt reported on 13 April. …
Lithuanian Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas met with Norway’s Oil and Energy Minister and Energy companies in Oslo. They talked about current trends in gas market, delfi.lt wrote on 11 April. Norway’s oil and energetics minister Ola Borten Moe said that he fully supports Lithuania’s …
The construction of Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the largest nuclear energy project, should not be opposed to renewable energy projects, said Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas in in the “Energy Forum” that took place in Seimas, delfi.lt reported on 4 April. Asked whether the construction …
A bill of Energy Resource Market Law, which aims at fixing compulsory trading of energy resources (and also renewable resources) in the exchange, is being discussed in Seimas, delfi.lt reported on 4 April. This was the main point of discussion in the Committee on Environment …
Visaginas nuclear power plant concession contract was presented during the meeting of the Government on Monday, announced Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas, delfi.lt reports on 26 March. “Today a concession contract on the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was presented to the Government. It is planned …
Negotiations with the strategic investor in the new nuclear plant of Visaginas, the US-Japanese company Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, are nearing the end, the Minister of Energy Arvyvas Sekmokas said to the Parliament’s Economics Committee on 21 March. He also stated that Lithuania is planning to …
This year’s Valentine’s day deserves an entry in gold letters in the history of Lithuania, Rimvydas Valatka writes in 15min.lt. Not because it was on Valentine’s day that state leaders started blowing bubbles of the FCIS soap opera, pushing Arvydas Sekmokas, Lithuanian Energy Minister and …
Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas states that shale gas could serve as an alternative energy source and it is part of the Lithuanian energy strategy. According to him, shale gas found in Lithuania is worth 35 billion EUR in 2011 prices, delfi.lt reported on 29 …
After Government’s meeting Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas announced that every company that uses gas intensively will be obliged to buy at least 25% of consumed gas through the gas terminal, delfi.lt wrote on 27 February. According to A. Sekmokas, the Ministry of Energy will …
Lithuanian politicians might have yielded up in the fight against company Nukem, which is delaying INPP’s (Ignalina’s Nuclear Power Plant) closure and requires more funds, due to the Germany-Russia friendship, delfi.lt wrote on 16 January. Recently Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Minister of Energy Arvydas …
On 10 January, the Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas and other officials endorsed plans of construction of new biomass power plant in Kaunas, on the territory of Petrašiūnai power plant. It is planned that construction work would take three years, but it is not clear when …
The fact that Poland suspended its participation in the Visaginas’ Nuclear Power Plant project will have no impact on the further course of the project: strategic Japanese investor Hitachi determined to continue participating fully in the project, delfi.lt wrote on 13 December. “The fact that …
Lithuania’s Minister of Energy and Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius hope to see an agreement on the main points of the development of the new nuclear power plant with Japanese-US investor Hitachi-GE, signed until the end of 2011. Arvydas Sekmokas has said that the agreement is important …
Minister of Energy, Arvydas Sekmokas, has made claims that the former Chairman of the Board of Polish energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), did not coordinate the company’s withdrawal from the Visaginas nuclear power plant project with the Polish government, and as a result, has …
Minister of Energy, Arvydas Sekmokas, has said that a European Commission (EC) study should confirm where a regional Baltic State liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal will be built. The Minister expects neighbouring Latvia to hold an advantage, as the country has Inčukalns underground natural gas storage, …
The Minister of Energy Mr. Arvydas Seikmokas said that the contract with the Japanese American corporation Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy to build the new nuclear power generating station (NPGS) will be signed at the of 2011 and the start of 2012. He says he is certain, …
