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Greek Deputy Energy Minister: Natural Gas Prices to Fall by 20% in Q1 2015

Natural gas prices for industrial and household users are expected to fall by 20% in the first quarter of 2015 as a result of falling international oil prices, Greek Deputy Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Makis Papageorgiou said...

Gazprom's "Plan B" for South Stream Pipeline

Russian business newspaper Vzglyad published an article by journalist Oleg Makarenko, claiming that Gazprom has a “plan B” in case Bulgaria continues to obstruct the construction of the South Stream pipeline. The newspaper published an article suggesting that the Kremlin-favored...

Greece to Buy Russian Gas at Discounted Price

Greece will buy Russian gas at a price of $396 US dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, Georgios Chelikidis, the General Manager of Prometheus Gas S.A., a Greek-Russian joint venture with participation of Russia’s Gazprom Export, told ITAR-TASS on Thursday. He...

Venizelos Wants EU To Relent on Russia

With Europe largely reliant on Russia for its gas and energy supplies, and Greece depending on Russian investments during a crushing economic crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos said there should be no sanctions on Russia for invading Crimea...

DEPA-Gazprom Agree on Reducing Natural Gas Price

Russian gas exports company, Gazprom has agreed to cut its price for DEPA, Greece's state-run natural gas distributor. The two sides were negotiating during the last months, with the Greek company asking for a cut of about 20%. As reported by the...

Samaras Asks Putin For Cheap Gas

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a sideline meeting in Brussels, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to lower the prices that Greece pays for Russian gas, but didn't get a commitment. The two men met in Brussels after Samaras addressed...

Greece Supports Arrested Greenpeace Activists

The environmental organization is mounting a global campaign to support the 30 Greenpeace activists, held in Russian prisons, this Saturday, October 5 in Athens. Greenpeace calls everyone to be at 18:00 at Dionysiou Areopagitou and Parthenonos Street, close to the...

Negotiations Over Gazprom's Gas Prices

A second round of critical negotiations, following the preliminary talks in Moscow earlier this summer started in Athens on August 28 concerning  the reduction of the price of Russian natural gas, between Gazprom and Greek natural gas provider DEPA. For...

Putin Says Greek Investments Risky

Days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras wrote him a letter asking for Russia to reduce prices paid for Russian gas, Russian President Vladimir Putin took a shot at Russian entrepreneurs for investing in Greece, which he described as...

Samaras Asks Putin To Lower Gas Prices

On the heels of signing the major Trans Adriatic Pipeline deal to bring gas from Azerbaijan into Europe through countries including Greece, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask for gas giant Gazprom...