France

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).

Red Leaf Resources Inc. has entered into a joint venture (JV) with a U.S. subsidiary of France’s Total SA to develop oil shale in the Uinta Basin in Utah.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Tuesday said it completed a joint venture (JV) in the Utica Shale with the U.S. subsidiary of France’s Total SA, a company that had been all but acknowledged to be the Oklahoma City-based producer’s silent partner for almost two months.

Total E&P USA Inc., a unit of France’s Total SA, will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s upstream Barnett Shale assets under a $2.25 billion joint venture agreement, the companies said last week. The deal gives Chesapeake cash it needs to fund development activities and makes Total a U.S. shale player. The partnership joins others Chesapeake has in the Haynesville, Fayetteville, Woodford and Marcellus shales.

Total E&P USA Inc., a unit of France’s Total SA, will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s upstream Barnett Shale assets under a $2.25 billion joint venture agreement, the companies said Monday. The deal gives Chesapeake cash it needs to fund development activities and makes Total a U.S. shale player.