Banca March : The new tool called Aggregate EU started its work yesterday and will receive 12-month demand forecasts from June onwards from the different European gas suppliers that wish to participate. From 3 May, these will be aggregated and studied to provide a joint demand proposal that will be launched to the market in search of bids. Finally, on 17 May, the supply and demand matches will be published,…
Distributors from 13 different countries have launched the Ready4H2 initiative to support the development of a hydrogen market that will contribute to the transformation of the continent’s energy infrastructure and the fulfilment of the EU’s climate neutrality goals. The participating Spanish companies are: Nedgia (from the Naturgy group), Nortegas, Madrileña Red de Gas, Redex and Gas Extremadura.
Daniel Stemler |”Nord Stream 2 is promoting the idea that EU law does not apply to offshore pipeline. The Gas Directive lacks a provision regarding a pipeline connecting a Member State with a 3rd country, meaning it makes the applicability of EU general law principles difficult for Nord Stream 2. However, to say that EU law does not apply is wholly false.”
Eulogio López | Rafael Villaseca, CEO of Gas Natural Fenosa is an industrial engineer and it shows. He has worked for a wide variety of companies: Panrico, Inisel, Nueva Montaña Quijano…And lately he has become a harsh critic not of the renewable energy firms themselves, but of the subsidies they receive.
BARCLAYS | The oil price has recovered to ~$50/bbl and project execution has been better than we have come to expect from the European E&P sector. Those two points appear to have been enough to see many investors revisit the sector with more forward looking optimism in recent months and increasingly ascribe value to delivery of 2016 operational goals.