France

Operations restarted at the Dunkerque LNG import terminal in Western France on Friday more than a week after labor strikes brought flows from the facility to a minimum.  Workers at the terminal on Thursday decided to end a strike at the plant that started March 7, a Fluxys spokesperson told NGI. The Brussels-based company operates…

Labor strikes in France that have cutoff the country’s LNG imports have been extended and are poised to stretch into next week. However, the disruptions largely have been brushed aside by the European natural gas trade amid a broader selloff in global energy markets. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), which represents trade workers, has…

Unions continued striking Thursday in France to oppose a proposed overhaul of the nation’s pension system, impacting power production, air travel, refineries, ports, LNG imports and other key aspects of the economy.

To help Europe replace gas supplies cut by Russia, France’s liquified natural gas (LNG)  imports nearly doubled last year, as the country delivered four times as much pipeline gas to neighboring European countries compared to 2021.  “France is stepping up its role as a point of entry and transit country for supplying Europe with gas,”…

France, Portugal and Spain have agreed to plan new energy connections between the three countries, not through an expansion of the Midi-Catalonia natural gas project – or MidCat – but through a “green energy corridor,” the countries’ leaders said in a joint statement. Ahead of the European Commission’s Thursday meeting on energy price policies in…

France plans to build at least six nuclear reactors, and possibly another eight, under the latest national low carbon strategy unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month. The strategy is designed to eventually replace fossil fuels like natural gas with nuclear and renewables to achieve the country’s 2050 net zero target.  Six European Pressurized…

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) on Thursday said it would partner with utilities in Canada and France to advance research on renewable natural gas (RNG) or biomethane.

Five years after enacting a ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), France’s energy minister told lawmakers she is looking into a possible ban on U.S. shale gas imports, arguing that it is hypocritical for her country to ban the practice domestically, yet indirectly support fracking elsewhere by continuing the imports.

European Union (EU) nations are likely to reconsider hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for its potential to promote energy independence and spur economic growth, according to consultant Frost & Sullivan (F&S).