Algeria wants to continue exporting gas to Turkey after 2014, when its current supply agreement with Turkish incumbent Botas expires, Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil was quoted as saying on Wednesday by state-run newswire APS.

Croatia’s Adria LNG import terminal project intends to change its participation structure to help meet its 2014 slated start-up date.

RWE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Azeri state-owned oil company SOCAR to draw up an agreement for hydrocarbon exploration and development of the Nakhichevan perspective structure in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.

Following news earlier this week that Indonesia will suffer a 23.3% deficit in its natural gas demand/supply balance for 2010, BPMigas, the country's upstream regulator said Arun will stop LNG exports in 2014, and Bontang will divert its entire supply to the domestic market by 2020.

Azerbaijan has more than doubled its gas exports to Russia to up to 3 Mcm/d starting from March 5, Gazprom chief executive officer Alexei Miller said.

President Obama’s energy and environment adviser, Joseph Aldy has urged natural gas companies to disclose the chemicals it uses for hydraulic fracturing to access US shale gas reserves - or risk inhibiting future shale gas development.

ConocoPhillips chief executive Jim Mulva told a US energy conference this week that the US government was ignoring the potential of the country’s vast shale gas reserves.

Eni’s chief executive officer Paolo Scaroni was reported as saying that the competing Nabucco and South Stream pipelines could benefit from merging at least part of their route.