The national demand for natural gas registered in August an increase of 9.1% compared to the same month of the previous year, reaching 25,086 gigawatt hours (GWh). This rebound was mainly driven by the 31% increase in consumption for electricity generation, according to the statistical bulletin of Enagás, which identifies...
The consumption of automotive fuels in Spain reached 2.724 million tons in July, which represents an advance of 0.8% compared to the same month of the previous year and an increase of 2.1% compared to June, according to figures released by the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Oil Products (Cores).In...
The futures markets indicate that the wholesale electricity price, the so-called 'pool', in Spain will remain at high levels throughout the rest of 2026. For the fourth quarter of the year, the quotes advance by 16.4%, up to 127.25 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), pressured by the rising cost of...
The electricity bill for households has increased by more than 19% in August compared to the same month of the previous year, driven by rising electricity prices due to increased demand during heatwaves and by a rise in natural gas prices. Thus, it becomes the most expensive August since 2022,...
The electricity bill for households anticipates an increase of over 20% in August compared to the same month of the previous year, driven by skyrocketing electricity prices due to increased demand during heatwaves and by natural gas in a clear upward trend.Specifically, the electricity bill for an average consumer on...
Algeria returned in July as the main source of natural gas entering Spain, supplying 10,707 gigawatt hours (GWh), equivalent to 41.7% of all purchases for that month, according to the statistical bulletin of Enagás.If the period from January to July is analyzed, the Maghreb country consolidates its leadership as the...
RWE U.S. Offshore has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to withdraw its offshore wind energy concessions located off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana. With this pact, the claims filed against the U.S. government are put to an end, which will compensate the...
The state companies Ecopetrol, from Colombia, and Petrobras, from Brazil, announced this Monday the discovery of natural gas in the exploratory well Sandía-1, located in Block GUA-OFF-O, in the deep waters of the Colombian Caribbean.According to the information released by both oil companies, Sandía-1 is located about 42 kilometers from...
The consumption of automotive fuels in Spain reached 2.667 million tons in June, which represents an increase of 6.9% compared to the same month of the previous year and an increase of 11.5% compared to May, according to data published by the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products (Cores).During...
Enagás closed the first half of the year with a net profit of 126.9 million euros, which represents a decrease of 27.9% compared to the 176 million recorded in the same period of 2025, a year in which capital gains from divestments in Soto la Marina and the update of...
Adnoc, the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has announced an investment of 6.2 billion dollars (5.4 billion euros) aimed at developing the Umm Shaif gas field, located off the coast of Abu Dhabi.The operation will be carried out alongside its international partners TotalEnergies, Eni, and China...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is scheduled to travel to Algeria next Monday on an official visit. It will be his first trip to the Maghreb country since the diplomatic clash caused in 2022 by his support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, and it will...
The Government of Spain has conveyed its condolences on the death of the emir emeritus of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who passed away at the age of 74.In an official note, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has highlighted the leadership role and political legacy of the sheikh, "architect...
The emir emeritus of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, architect of the country's transformation into a global gas power, has died this Sunday at the age of 74, as reported by the Amiri Diwan, the sovereign office of the State. The official statement declares four days of mourning for...
Algeria has consolidated its position as the main source of natural gas arriving in Spain during the first half of the year, accounting for 33.9% of imports made between January and June, placing it ahead of the United States.In June, the North African country once again occupied the top spot...
The European Commission has authorized this Thursday the acquisition of joint control of the French Teréga by the international subsidiary of the Spanish Enagás and the Italian SNAM, after determining that the operation will not have adverse effects in the European economic space.The Community Executive has determined that the notified...
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has submitted for public consultation, under an urgent procedure, a draft royal decree with new measures aimed at promoting the integration of renewable energies, self-consumption, and storage, streamlining the processing of infrastructures, and strengthening the capacity and resilience of the electricity...
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has indicated that his Government and Bolivia "will accelerate" talks with the aim of closing agreements between Petrobras —the Brazilian public oil company— and the Bolivian company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) in the field of natural gas exploitation."We decided to...
The supply of renewable energies in the European Union advanced 1.4% in 2025, reaching 11.5 million terajoules (TJ). In that same year, the use of natural gas also grew, while coal contracted again to levels never seen before, according to preliminary data released this Monday by Eurostat.The EU's statistical office...
More than a third of households that modified their energy tariffs used offer comparators, according to the latest results from the Household Panel of the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) on electricity and natural gas services corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2025.In detail, among households that changed...
Spain would have the capacity to implement between 25 and 35 terawatt-hours (TWh) of biomethane by 2035, which would be equivalent to between 7% and 10% of the current national gas consumption. This is according to a report prepared for APPA Biogás by Bioliza and S3d, which takes into account...
The wholesale electricity market will remain unaffected by the latest geopolitical movements and will maintain summer and winter prices close to one hundred euros per megawatt-hour (MWh). The scenarios considered place maximums at 89.40 euros per MWh for the summer months and at 94 euros per MWh for the final...
The Ministry of the Interior of Qatar has communicated this Sunday the occurrence of an "internal" explosion in the industrial area of Ras Laffan, attributed to a "technical incident" that would have left "several injured", although for the moment no concrete data has been offered on the number of affected...
The Ministry of the Interior of Qatar has communicated this Sunday the existence of an "internal" explosion in the industrial area of Ras Laffan, linked to a "technical incident" registered in one of its facilities."An internal explosion has occurred in one of the factories in the Ras Laffan industrial zone...
The reinforcement of renewable energies in the Spanish electricity system has caused the wholesale price of electricity to be increasingly less conditioned by the international price of natural gas. According to the Bank of Spain, this lower dependence has made it possible to halve the impact of gas on electricity...