Energy

The EU, Ukraine and Russia have failed to agree on gas issues on Friday's meeting in Warsaw, Poland.

Two more sessions of the three-way energy talks are planned for May, according to the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger as quoted by RIA Novosti agency.

The EU wants a uniform price for Russian natural gas for all its member states, said Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Friday. 

Oettinger had a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk who lobbies for the idea of an EU energy union. 

Russia is to file its second formal complaint against the EU with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the EU's so-called 'Third Energy Package', reports EUobserver. 

Turkey looks at Norway as a potential supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as its Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said while on a visit to Oslo.

At a press meeting with his Norwegian counterpart Tord Lien, Yildiz announced his country had requested to buy up to 6 B cubic meters of gas, according to The World Bulletin.

Russian Gazprom and Austrian OMV signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding to build the Austrian section of the South Stream gas pipeline.

The Memorandum was inked at the headquarters of OAO Gazprom at a working meeting between the Chairman of the Management Committee Alexey Miller and the OMV Chairman of the Executive Board, CEO Gerhard Roiss.

Russia's energy giant Gazprom does not rule out the suspension of gas transit to Europe, the company has warned in its 2013 financial report.

Energy sector screening, "no mention of South Stream"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's chief negotiator with the EU Tanja Miščević says screening on the energy sector and trans-European networks will be held in Brussels on Tuesday.

She underlining that Belgrade did not receive any concrete objections from the EU in relation to the South Stream gas pipeline.

BRUSSELS - Chief of Serbia's negotiating team Tanja Miscevic has said that a screening on the energy sector and trans-European networks will be held in Brussels on Tuesday, underlining that Belgrade did not receive any concrete objections from the EU in relation to the South Stream gas pipeline.

Slovakia and Ukraine have reached a deal that will allow natural gas from Central Europe to reach Ukraine via Slovakia.

Under the deal, which will be signed on Monday in Bratislava, Slovakia will reinstate a disused pipeline that will be capable of supplying 3 B cubic metres of gas a year to Ukraine.

BELGRADE - The construction of the South Stream pipeline will be realised strictly according to the plans, the Gazprom Information Department stated.

The main part of the pipeline construction in the territory of Bulgaria and Serbia will begin in summer 2014, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said as reported by the Voice of Russia.