Indonesia approves the first development plan for the Tuna offshore gas field. With an estimated total investment of $3.07 billion until production begins. The project is expected to assert Indonesia's sovereignty in the South Sea, which is subject to numerous tensions with China.

In Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan announced that the country's total volume of natural gas is now 710 billion cubic meters.

In Japan, companies are signing several agreements to source LNG from Oman LNG and Venture Global.

Gazprom's gas exports outside the former Soviet bloc countries fell by 45.5% in 2022, according to announced results.

Tangguh, Indonesia's LNG plant is expanding its capacity with the addition of a new Train-3 structure.

A liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal ship has arrived in Finland, the state-owned gas grid operator announced.

Europe and Asia are now bidding against each other for cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced further away.

The Yamal-Europe gas pipeline could resume gas supply to Europe according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

Bulgaria is negotiating to reserve about 1 bcm/year of import capacity in Turkish LNG terminals.

In Piombino, Italy, the administrative court rejects a request for a preventive halt to work on a new LNG terminal.

Energinet has lowered its level of vigilance, which had been raised after the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines.

The number of customers heating with gas in France has "for the first time in a long time" decreased this year.

The Spanish competition authority has announced that it has fined the German energy group RWE and the French company TotalEnergies.

TotalEnergies will launch a campaign in January to reserve regasification capacity on its future floating LNG carrier in Le Havre.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially launched the exploitation of the Kovykta gas field, a vast deposit located in Siberia.

French major TotalEnergies and Italian Eni have made a new offshore gas discovery off the coast of Cyprus.

Natural gas consumption in the European Union fell by 20.1% in August-November compared with the average for the previous five years.

EU member states have approved, after a month of tough negotiations, a temporary mechanism to cap wholesale gas prices.

Germany has inaugurated its first liquefied gas terminal, designed to avoid shortages and replace Russian deliveries.