MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Russia and Ukraine Wednesday bickered over gas deliveries to Europe, in spite of international efforts to broker an accord.
More than a week into the dispute, with international monitors in place to observe gas flows, Russia’s state-run energy concern Gazprom accused Ukraine’s Naftogaz of blocking deliveries intended for Europe, Deutsche Welle [...]

Reuters
Russia accused Ukraine of stealing gas destined for the rest of Europe today, a day after cutting supplies to its neighbour in a contract dispute.
The volumes Russian export monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said Ukraine was siphoning off were small, but the accusation suggested Moscow was in no mood for compromise in a re-run of a 2006 [...]

By Nicholas Comfort
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — Natural-gas suppliers in Germany, Europe’s biggest energy market, expect to maintain deliveries of the heating fuel even as stockpiles fall to a seven-month low and Russia threatens to halt shipments to Ukraine.
Utilities E.ON AG and RWE AG and gas provider Wingas GmbH said customers won’t experience any disruption in [...]

Iran’s member of parliament Seied Mohammad Reza Tajeddini said here on Sunday that Iran has lost billions of dollars by a gas deal with a Gulf firm, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Tajeddini regarded the contract between the two sides as illegal, adding that it was against the constitution and the interest of the [...]

By ROBERT WIELAARD
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The EU’s top energy official will travel to Turkey and Azerbaijan Wednesday to show Europe’s commitment to a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the Caucasus westward in 2013, keeping it out of Russia’s grasp.
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will make a push for the Nabucco pipeline, [...]