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The Greek director of the WWF conservation group was on Tuesday joined by his counterparts from France, Spain and Italy as they expressed their "grave concern" over the potential development of new onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling projects in Western Greece.

Total is committed to continuing its exploration work in Cyprus, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told Reuters on Monday, part of a major exploration campaign for 2019 focused on areas known to contain commercial levels of oil and gas.

The National Association of Merchants and Carriers of Fuel in Bulgaria announced on 7th of January that the small fuel traders will launch protests entitled "Yellow vests". The reason is the law on the administrative regulation of the trade with petroleum and petroleum products.

A fire broke out on an offshore pipeline rig at Limassol port on Friday, with local media saying there were no injuries.

According to local reports, an oil platform was anchored at Limassol port when its engine caught fire on Friday around noon.

Tomislav Coric, Croatia's Minister of Environment and Energy, met on Tuesday in Budapest with Hungary's Foreign and Trade Minister, Peter Szijjarto, to discuss joint energy projects and gas supplies.

The gas terminal station at Revythoussa, off the Attica coast, is set to receive the first quantities of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar on Saturday.

Greece aspires to become a regional marine bunkering and distribution hub for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Eastern Mediterranean through the European Union co-funded "Poseidon Med II" project, according to local officials.

At a time when the global shipping industry is eager to invest in clean fuel to meet new international requirements, a newly established Greek firm, Probunkers, on Tuesday presented its plan for the creation of the first global supplier of bunkering services.

Croatia's parliament is set to vote on Friday, under urgent procedure, on the Law on Liquefied Natural Gas, popularly called the "Lex LNG" - whose main purpose is to speed the building of floating terminal to receive liquefied natural gas on the island of Krk.

A Turkish company, LNG Gaz Üretim Depolama ve Satış A.Ş., has received the green light to progress the country's first onshore LNG production and storage in the country's midwestern and northern Anatolian regions, the president of the company said on May 8.