Klaipėda Oil opens discussions with Orlen Lithuania on product pipeline
BNS Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėda Oil), Lithuania’s state-owned petroleum product terminal operator, has opened discussions with Orlen Lietuva, the sole Baltic oil refinery controlled by Poland’s PKN...
View ArticleLithuania ready to buy Amber Grid’s shares from E.ON and Gazprom
BNS Lithuania’s government plans to buy the shares in ‘Amber Grid’, the gas transmission system operator, held by Germany’s E.ON. It would also buy the shares controlled by Gazprom if Russia’s gas...
View ArticleSpecialist-level discussions on Visaginas NPP project to begin in late October
BNS The Lithuanian government will not put off deciding on its position regarding a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday, adding that...
View ArticleGrybauskaitė: Gazprom makes requirements that cannot be met
BNS President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that Gazprom has sent the Lithuanian Government a list of requirements that cannot be met and called for accelerating the construction of a liquefied...
View ArticleMP: Gazprom has already sent answers to Lithuania’s government
BNS Russia’s gas concern Gazprom has already sent its responses to the Lithuanian government, MP Remigijus Zemaitaitis of the ruling Order and Justice party has said. “It is said that Gazprom has sent...
View ArticleBrussels to rule on state guarantee for Lithuania’s LNG terminal by the...
BNS The European Commission intends to issue conclusions on the loan to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Klaipėda by the end of the year, Joaquin Almunia, the Commission’s vice-president and...
View ArticleEnergy Minister presented joint position on new NPP to Prime Minister
BNS With the government getting ready to take the final decision on the project of a new Lithuanian nuclear power plant, Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič on Wednesday submitted a joint position of...
View ArticleLithuanian Energy Minister expects Gazprom to cut gas price to ‘market level’
BNS Lithuania expects Gazprom to reduce its gas prices for the country at least “to the market level”, Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič said on Tuesday. “I can assure you that the government is...
View ArticleSeimas to discuss new nuclear power plant project next week
BNS The leadership of Lithuania’s Seimas will discuss the project of a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas at a closed-door meeting next week. Later, the information about the project will be...
View ArticleCEO of Lithuanian Energy: Visaginas NPP project can be improved
BNS There is potential to improve the project for building a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania, launched by the country’s previous government, the chief executive officer of the state-owned...
View ArticleEnergy Minister: Lithuania and Gazprom moving toward solutions
BNS Lithuania and Gazprom are moving toward solutions, Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič said on Friday after meeting with the Russian gas group’s deputy board chairman, Alexander Medvedev, in St....
View ArticleEnergy minister admits that the situation in electricity market is grave
BNS The situation in Lithuania’s electricity market is grave, Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič has said adding that competent authorities would soon make proposals to the Baltic electricity...
View ArticleEnergy Minister: Gazprom not yet inclined to reduce gas price
BNS Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič says that Gazprom does not intend to lower the price of natural gas for Lithuania at the moment, but he hopes that the Russian gas giant will do so sooner or...
View ArticlePM: No delays in Lithuanian LNG terminal construction
BNS Construction of Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is progressing without any delays, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said in Klaipeda on Friday. “The rate of the project...
View ArticleEU Council earmarks €451 million for decommissioning of Ignalina NPP
BNS The European Union (EU) will earmark 450.8 million euros in support for the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) between 2014 and 2020. The EU Council on Friday...
View ArticleBrussels gives Vilnius and Kaunas power plants more time for upgrade
BNS Several Lithuanian power plants, including the combined heat-and-power plants of Vilnius and Kaunas (CHP), will have until late June 2020 to upgrade their installations and bring them in line with...
View ArticleGrybauskaitė: Lithuania’s position in talks with Gazprom is producing results
BNS President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that Lithuania, which is building a natural gas terminal of its own and will soon become independent from Gazprom for gas supplies, should think how much it needs...
View ArticleLithuania’s negotiations with Gazprom will not be held this week
BNS Contrary to what was expected by Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuania’s experts this week will not go to Moscow to continue negotiations with Russia’s gas concern Gazprom....
View ArticleThe Seimas to host closed discussion of consequences of Russian-Ukrainian...
BNS The Seimas’ (parliamentary) Committee on Budget and Finance will discuss the threats and consequences of Russian-Ukrainian conflict for Lithuania with security and other officials next week. Closed...
View ArticleLithuanian president approves new government
BNS Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius submitted on Wednesday morning a new line-up of the government to President Dalia Grybauskaitė to approve. “I signed the document,” the president...
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