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Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday reiterated his call on Latvia to implement the EU's third energy package and liberalize its gas market.

The Lithuanian authorities have just blurted out a major state secret: the round-the-clock surveillance of “Independence”, a floating liquefied natural gas storage and regasification unit in the seaport of Klaipėda, a guarantor of the country’s energy security and national pride, might be insufficie...

At the 8th annual European Gas Conference 2015, in Vienna, petroleum company Klaipėdos Nafta won the Project of the Year award for the implementation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal project.

120s: Bomb threat at LNG terminal, EU sends message to Russia, Lithuania's pride, Valančiūnas 9th best player in Europe, Puppy games.

The Emergency Call Centre received a phone call on Wednesday from a woman claiming there was a bomb placed underneath the floating LNG terminal in the seaport of Klaipėda, west Lithuania. Emergency services were alerted immediately and people evacuated from the embankment. No explosives were found.

Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lietuvos Energija energy company group, will start supplying natural gas to Estonia from February. Litgas is the first company in Lithuania and one of the first in the Baltics which will supply natural gas to customers in other countries, the co...

An international delegation of UNESCO experts was on a visit in the Lithuanian Curonian Spit for a few days this week to check how the protected site is managed. The delegation organized the inspection in response to complaint from Russia, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

The liquefied natural gas terminal in Lithuania's western port of Klaipėda is properly guarded, the country's Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the port's chief said on Wednesday.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday accused Russia's gas giant Gazprom of using gas for political pressure after Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said in a discussion in Davos that alternatives to Russian gas would be more expensive for Europe.

A possibility to explore and extract shale gas interests several energy companies from the United States, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

As the standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine continues into 2015, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will come to play an increasingly important role. Even before the crisis, the three Baltic states — as well as neighboring Poland — were among the most active EU member...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday that the government has to give priority to completing ongoing energy projects, rather than thinking about new ones.

Six vessels are waiting to be cleared for entering the port of Klaipėda where ship traffic was partially restricted on Friday morning due to strong winds, the port's authority said.

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda officially opened its commercial operations on the first day of 2015 to provide the first alternative to Russian gas.

Key tasks of the Lithuanian government next year will include search for new markets, fight against shadow economy and successful implementation of energy projects, the prime minister has said.

Changeover to the euro and the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, as a sign of the country’s growing energy independence from Russia, have become Lithuania’s top projects of 2014, Prime Minister has said.

Launching of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that put an end to the monopoly of Russian and re-election of Dalia Grybauskaitė as Lithuania's president for the second term were the most important events of the year 2014, Lithuanian journalists and editors say.

120s: First commercial LNG shipment reaches Lithuania, Smoking in balconies and electronic cigarettes, 3D fairy tale on Cathedral wall, Empire State Building lights show.

On Tuesday, liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Arctic Aurora delivered the first commercial shipment of gas to Lithuania's LNG terminal.

The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia's recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrap...