President of Azerbaijan said that the country would begin exporting gas, including to European countries.

Loews Corporation to Acquire Permian, Michigan and Alabama Natural Gas Exploration and Production Operations from Dominion for $4 Billion.

Indonesia is offering liquefied natural gas supplies to Japan and South Korea from its largest natural gas field of Tanggguh in Papua province, local press said Monday, June 4th.

Armenia's Russian-owned national gas company has reportedly pledged to build the second and final section of a natural gas pipeline from Iran by the end of next year.

Valery Golubev, the deputy chairman of Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom's Management Committee, said in April that the price of gas charged by Gazprom to Ukraine will depend on how closely the economies of both countries are prepared to cooperate, the Ukrainian website proUA.com reported.

Xinao Group, the parent of Hong Kong-listed Xinao Gas Holdings Ltd, is in talks with firms in Australia, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia to import natural gas, a company official said.

Oman has signed an oil and gas cooperation agreement with Iran.

French utility Suez plans to take an 11.3 percent stake in Spain's Gas Natural, in what it called a "friendly and constructive" move.

Dana Gas, the Middle East's first private sector regional natural gas company, said it would expand its gas operations and investments in Egypt's growing natural gas industry.

The presidents of Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian sea coast. The landmark deak was agreed today during three-way talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in the coastal Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi.

The top prosecutor of Ukraine said that the reason of the explosion of natural gas pipeline, supplying Russian gas to Europe, was negligence. The blast on Monday destroyed about 30 meters (100 feet) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod line south of Kiev. Nobody was injured.

A powerful commercial inflow of gas is reported from Well 102 in South Iolotan in the Mary region of Turkmenistan. The target well depth is estimated at 4,500 meters but the productive interval was discovered at the depth of 4,360 meters, Caucaz.com reported.