Gazprom head Alexei Miller is holding talks in Athens on March 12 with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras over a potential bid for DEPA, Greece's national natural gas company, the Capital.gr website reported.
Qatar has discovered as much as 80 billion cubic meters (about 2.8 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas in an offshore field, the Qatari energy minister said March 10, AP reported.
The National Liberation Army, a Colombian rebel group, released two kidnapped German citizens on March 8, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, CNN reported.
Sudan and South Sudan agreed March 8 to withdraw forces from the demilitarized buffer zone separating the two countries by March 14, former South African President Thabo Mbeki said, Reuters reported.
Natural gas exports from Libya's Mellitah complex to Italy have been halted since March 2 after rival militias clashed in the region, Libya's National Oil Corp. and Italy's ENI said March 3, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian authorities have reached an understanding with regional councils in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regarding a production-sharing agreement with Chevron on the development of shale gas in the Oleske field, Interfax-Ukraine reported Feb. 26.
