Tag: Raw materials policy
Germany in talks with Oman over LNG supplies
Manuela Schwesig and Olaf Scholz at the Deutsche Ostsee LNG terminal LNG plays a key role in Germany’s efforts to replace Russia’s missing gas supplies (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) London /…
Why the US isn’t behind the pipeline sabotage
Seymour Hersh The journalist accuses the United States of being behind the attack on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. (Photo: imago/Engelhardt) Brussels It’s a day of celebration for…
Next winter will be a stress test for the gas supply
Floating LNG terminal “Neptune” in the port of Lubmin Pipeline gas from Russia must be replaced by liquefied natural gas ((LNG). (Photo: Paul-Langrock.de) Berlin The winter may not be over…
Norge Mining wants to exploit phosphate deposits
Norwegian commodity hope The raw materials group Norge Mining wants to mine phosphate on a large scale. (Photo: Norge Mining) Zurich The European Raw Materials Alliance (Erma), an initiative co-financed…
No more diesel from Russia: What the EU boycott means
Prices at the pump In October 2022, according to the latest figures from the EU statistics office Eurostat, Russia exported oil products such as diesel worth more than 2.3 billion…
After a deflagration, the Rehden gas storage facility returns gas to the grid
Controversial nuclear reactor Tihange 2 in Belgium is finally off the grid After 40 years of operation, the controversial Tihange 2 nuclear reactor near the German border in Belgium has…
Deflagration paralyzes the largest German gas storage facility in Rehden
Controversial nuclear reactor Tihange 2 in Belgium is finally off the grid After 40 years of operation, the controversial Tihange 2 nuclear reactor near the German border in Belgium has…
Ukraine war shortens comeback of fossil fuels
Oil refinery and pipeline Oil companies celebrate record profits. (Photo: E+/Getty Images) Dusseldorf, New York While consumers and businesses suffer from high energy prices, the big oil and gas companies…
Federal government not very transparent about state gas deals
Berlin The federal government withholds a large part of the information about gas storage filling from the public and is often ignorant or reserved when it comes to LNG purchases.…
“The Ukraine war will accelerate the energy transition”
LNG Terminal German Baltic Sea In record time, the federal government had three floating landing sites for liquefied natural gas from countries such as the USA, Qatar and other countries…
Nationalized gas company wants to build German hydrogen network
gas pipeline A concept of nationalized Sefe snubs the private gas network operators (Photo: dpa) Berlin When it transpired at the beginning of December last year that Federal Minister of…
Nationalized gas company wants to build German hydrogen network
gas pipeline A concept of nationalized Sefe snubs the private gas network operators (Photo: dpa) Berlin When it transpired at the beginning of December last year that Federal Minister of…
In Africa, it takes more than a kneel
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) There is great potential for renewable energies in southern Africa. (Photo: dpa) Robert Habeck probably never dreamed how intensively he would deal with…
How Bulgaria could become independent of Russian oil
Oil transfer from Greece The task now is to bring oil to Alexandroupoli in Greece in tankers and pump it from there to Bulgaria. (Photo: IMAGO/SNA) Athens Greece and Bulgaria…
“I’m worried about next winter”
Fatih Birol “Germany and the rest of Europe are paying the price for decades of dependence on a single supplier.” (Photo: AP) davos European gas storage facilities are full, prices…
Climate saver or environmental sin? This is how LNG affects the German CO2 balance
Dusseldorf Germany is increasingly covering its natural gas needs with liquefied natural gas. According to the market research company Icis, Germany imported around 485,000 gigawatt hours of natural gas from…
Russia is trying to take control of gas exports to China
Gas production in Turkmenistan In some cases, Turkmenistan was no longer able to bring gas to Uzbekistan because the sub-zero temperatures made production impossible. (Photo: picture alliance/dpa) Berlin Parts of…
The best years are behind us
components for wind turbines There are warnings of de-industrialization in Germany if an economic turning point does not occur soon. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Not so long ago, Germany was considered…
Court brakes EU platform
Brussels, Dusseldorf Joint procurement of gas at European level could start later than planned. The General Court of the European Union has ruled that the contract to set up the…
“We were under a lot of time pressure” – Klaus Müller defends expensive filling of the gas storage tanks
The federal government had the goal that the gas storage should be 40 percent full by the beginning of February. In mid-January, the filling level is well over 90 percent.…