A memorandum of understanding has been signed by two of Norway's leading players in the floating production sector to collaborate on future LNG projects.

Energy sector commentator Evolution Securities in London has suggested Norway's Troll gas field has saved the UK again while the country is gripped by cold weather and a surge in gas demand.

Britain's gas distribution authority National Grid has warned large users for the second time this week to reduce consumption but the authority has cut back the number involved as UK demand surges in continuing cold weather.

British transmission authority National Grid has issued an unusual emergency appeal for major consumers to cut back on gas consumption as the UK is gripped by a severe cold snap and extra imports are being sought from Norway and Belgium to cope with a surge in gas demand.

Total has signed up to take a stake in a tight gas project onshore Texas by partnering with a US-based energy firm, signalling a strategic entry into the US tight gas market.

Russia's Gazprom has signed a sale and purchase agreement to take more gas supplies from Uzbekistan commencing in the New Year.

Production has resumed at Asia's Kambuna gas field off Sumatra in Indonesia, British-based partner Serica Energy said today after a  temporary halt at the request of state company PLN for repairs to its gas turbine generators.

Taqa has handed a turnkey deal to Fluor Corporation to develop its Bergermeer Gas onshore storage project in The Netherlands.

Russia's Gazprom and EDF of France have linked up in a new gas supply deal which will allow Gazprom to advance on the US energy market .

Taqa and Gazprom along with partners have agreed to go ahead with a Dutch onshore gas storage project after making a final investment decision for the development.

Gas is the natural fuel of choice for the world in the future, according to BP chief executive Tony Hayward.

South Hook, the new UK LNG terminal developed by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum in Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, west Wales is now open for commercial business after commissioning of phase one of the project was completed.

Gas supplies from the UK North Sea are expected to make up only about 50% of demand this winter according to a forecast report from Britain's energy supply authority National Grid.

Wood Group subsidiary JP Kenny has landed a deal to provide key project support for a US $2 Bn offshore underground gas storage project.

French power group EDF appears set to get a 10% chunk of Gazprom's South Stream pipeline, in a deal that would grant Paris a say in new Russian gas links to Europe, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Tuesday.

In Moscow, the president in Russia of Norwegian state-controlled oil and gas major StatoilHydro has told an investment conference that gas sales from the second phase of the Shakh Deniz project in Azerbaijan was what he described as an open issue.

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is ready to send liquid natural gas from the massive Shtokman field in the Barents Sea to Baltic country Lithuania - if a regasification terminal is built in the tiny nation's coastal town of Klaipeda.

Ukraine's state energy group Naftogaz has paid its Russian gas bill for August in full, a Naftogaz spokesman told news agencues were told in the Ukraine capital of Kiev on Friday.

Ormen Lange gas field's reserves in the Norwegian Sea could be 25% less than previously estimated, Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv wrote in an article published on Friday, which quotes industry sources.

Norwegian gas shipper Golar LNG says that the restructuring of its activities by way of the transfer of various assets and liabilities to its subsidiary, Golar LNG Energy Limited has been completed

UK utility and energy giant Centrica - the owner of British Gas - on Friday announced that it is extending the deadline for its hostile bid for London-listed independent and North Sea gas producer Venture Petroleum.

UK listed Salamander Energy PLC has reported the start up of production from its operated Kambuna gas-condensate field, offshore North Sumatra. Salamander has a 50% interest in the Kambuna field. The other Kambuna partner, UK group Serica Energy, is alslo joining in the fun. It holds a 50% working interest in the field.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Ukraine on Tuesday of seeking to disrupt economic ties with Russia - and putting at risk the safety of gas supplies to Europe, according to news agency reports on Tuesday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Ukraine on Tuesday of seeking to disrupt economic ties with Russia - and putting at risk the safety of gas supplies to Europe, according to news agency reports on Tuesday.

Centrica, the energy group which owns British Gas, has attacked an analysis of North Sea gas producer Venture Production - which it wants to buy - as lacking in credibility with an evaulation of the worth of Venture coming in as far too optimistic.

Petoro, the Norwegian state-owned oil and gas group, said that in the second quarter production retreated 6% and it cautioned that in the second half of 2009 there would be a decline in gas prices which would impact on earnings.

Korean shipbuilder Samsung and Technip have secured a prestigious contract from Shell to build a series of floating Liquefied Natural Gas plants.

Gas rich Turkmenistan has promised to sent more gas to the UK as North Sea supplies decline, according to reports.