Tanzania’s state-owned power utility said it’s in talks with a group of lenders including Citigroup for a $257m loan to fund gas fired electricity generation.

Abengoa is set to build a 640 MW combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) in Mexico after the country's Federal Commission of Electricity chose the Spanish company to carry out the project.

GE has signed contracts worth almost $300m with the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to supply 13 gas turbines and associated services for the expansion of six power plants at locations across the Kingdom.

The European Investment Bank has granted a EUR 240m ($323m) loan to Italian utility Iren for an offshore regasification plant in Livorno.

A report out today claims that the UK could build 2,300 offshore wind turbines with the money it would need to exploit the country’s shale gas reserves.

Finland’s Wartsila Corp is to buy UK engineering company Hamworthy in a deal worth GBP 383m ($599m).

Reuters has reported that Abu Dhabi’s peak power production will exceed 10 GW for the first time next year, buoyed by its ambitious energy projects and exports to the northern emirates.

The parent company of British Gas, Centrica, has today signed a 10-year deal with Statoil for the supply of 50 billion cubic metres of gas to the UK.

Turkmenistan wants to build a gas pipeline to Europe that would bypass Russia and supply 30 billion cubic metres of gas a year.

A poll of gas industry insiders has found that few believe shale gas will overtake conventional gas or liquefied natural gas in the future.

Global mining company BHP Billiton plans to spend around $4.5bn on developing its new shale gas business stakes.

Increased shale gas production in the US has had a significant impact on the liquefied natural gas exports of Trinidad and Tobago.

E.ON is developing a EUR5m ($6.8m) pilot plant in Germany to convert power from wind energy into hydrogen which can then be stored in the country’s gas grid.

China should start buying more pipelined gas from Central Asia instead of increasing its imports of LNG, says a report out today.

China, India and Russia will drive global energy growth in the next 25 years, any significant withdrawal from nuclear will have “alarming implications”, and a major cut in renewable energy subsidies because of economic austerity would make it “very difficult for the sector to come back to life", are among the conclusions from the latest IEA report.

A loan of $1.184m has been agreed for the construction of a 1,600 MW gas combined cycle thermal power plant in Thailand.

In Nigeria, the Lagos state government is planning to establish five new independent power projects (IPPs) to serve industrial clusters in the state, according to Babatunde Fashola, the state governor.

Malaysia’s energy minister has said that the country’s utility Tenaga Nasional will suffer further gas shortages for up to three months.

Australian gas producer Santos expects demand for gas in the east of the country to triple over the next 10 years.