Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Oslo🇳🇴
Energy, International Relations, Climate, Geopolitics, Diplomacy
Non-resident Research Fellow @ RIE - Bologna🇮🇹
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Yesterday, speaking to Kremlin-aligned media, the Russian President alluded to the possibility of halting gas exports to the EU abruptly: "If they're going to shut us down in a month or two anyway, wouldn't it be better to stop now and go to countries that are reliable partners?
Unable to store additional oil in strategic reserves and state-owned or privately-owned facilities, they will soon be forced to halt production at some of the largest oil fields on earth.
Do coincidences happen in energy geopolitics? I honestly don’t think so. Yesterday, Iranian drones targeted and hit two of the largest facilities for LNG production in the world, paralysing Qatar’s LNG operations and causing exports to cease completely.
In a recent article from the New York Times—certainly not a Kremlin mouthpiece—reports that Gentry Beach, an American hedge fund and private equity investor with personal connections extending to Donald Trump Jr. (the President’s eldest son), has signed an agreement with
For the first time in many years, the @IEA acknowledges that the energy transition is not evolving as expected and that the demand for hydrocarbons, and particularly Oil & Gas, could outpace expectations, determining new strategic concerns for producers and consumers.
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The electricity grid of The Netherlands is in big trouble. This is not the story you would expect from one of the countries in the EU which abandoned gas production from the largest field in 2023 to electrify energy consumption and switch to decarbonising many industries.
Any attempt to close Hormuz to ship transit would be a massive retaliation against the🇺🇲United States, which this night attacked Iran's nuclear facilities through cluster bombs and submarines deployed in the Middle East, del facto entering the war along with🇮🇱Israel, but also
Israel's Iron Dome is not flawless, this is what the IDF and government always said about the defence system developed in a decade and protecting Israel from aerial attacks. Iron Dome has been fundamental over the last nights as Iran attempted to penetrate it by launching waves
According to REE, the operator of the Spanish grid, the giant blackout of yesterday, one of the most spectacular failures of the European energy systems in the age of electrification, was caused by the sudden disconnection between the Spanish and French electricity grids.
The North German Plains, a huge landmass stretching from Germany's cities of Lipsia and Dortmund to the port cities of Hamburg and Rostock could contain massive amounts of lithium, an essential critical raw material required for the energy transition.
President Putin said that "Attacks of this kind are impossible without space reconnaissance. Ukraine receives high-precision data on the targets only from its Western allies."
At the beginning of March, Turkey will start importing unknown volumes of gas from Turkmenistan. The trade will be possible thanks to a swap agreement with Iran.
Over the last 24-48 hours, the GIE-AGSI website decided to reconsider the colouring of percentage ranges of EU gas storage available today.
Gas storage levels in the🇪🇺EU are back at the center of the political debate and the attention of energy analysts.
🚨1 - National energy emergency
Satellite images have spotted unprecedented movements in the Russian Arctic that might signal the first LNG shipment from Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 could happen very soon.
The French grid operator RTE warned that, starting next week, the country's energy system will be considerably under stress. This will likely hamper the export potential of the French electricity grid as the system will need to adapt to new, domestic circumstances.
In a complex and detailed 108-page long report, the ECA says that the EU Commission plan to deliver hydrogen to the hard-to-abate industries in the EU and fuel the energy transition is not realistic. Also, ECA says the plan has not respected the most basic industrial assumptions
According to the CEO of Israel’s National Electrical System Management Company Noga, Shaul Goldstein,🇮🇱Israel's energy system is simply unprepared for a war with Hezbollah.
Through a market note, yesterday Eni has informed markets that the gas supplies from Libya to Italy and transiting through the trans-Mediterranean GreenStream pipeline could be significantly reduced for about a week due to an unplanned maintenance at the Mellitah gas complex.