Turkey's leaders have mounted a charm offensive among regional energy producers in an effort to diversify supplies as relations with major natural gas provider Russia crumble following the downing of a Russian warplane by the Turkish airforce.

• Date: 03.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Oil-producing countries looked unlikely to reach a deal to lift languishing prices at a meeting on Friday after Iran, Iraq and Russia swiftly rejected a surprise proposal that appeared to have been floated by Saudi Arabia.

• Date: 03.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkey wants to cut its reliance on Russian gas used in cars and households, prompted by a growing chill in ties between Ankara and Moscow after the downing of a Russian jet.

• Date: 02.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 02.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia may freeze work on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project for several years in retaliation against Ankara for the shooting down of a Russian air force jet, two sources at Russian gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) told Reuters.

• Date: 02.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies.

• Date: 27.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Gazprom's deputy chief executive is expected to meet EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager next month in a meeting that could determine the outcome of the EU's case against the Russian gas giant, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

• Date: 27.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation.

• Date: 26.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country has imposed a ban on transit flights over Ukraine for all Russian airlines.

• Date: 25.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/