PARIS, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- French-based energy company GDF Suez posted a 2.3 percent increase in revenues in the first half of 2009 despite a dismal economic climate, the group said.

PARIS, July 30 (UPI) -- French utility giant GDF Suez is in negotiations with Russian partners to examine its participation in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline.

MOSCOW, June 24 (UPI) -- Russian energy monopoly Gazprom on Wednesday ruled out revising its pricing and transit contracts with Ukraine, corporate officials said.

MOSCOW, June 9 (UPI) -- An increase in gas prices will finance liquefied natural gas projects for Gazprom and possible expansion into North America, company officials said.

BERLIN, May 20 (UPI) -- Russian officials stepped up their rhetoric calling on Europe to include Russian gas in their energy diversification strategy at a bilateral summit in Berlin.

BERLIN, May 19 (UPI) -- Russia wants a pipeline linking the country to Europe via the Balkans to become a European Union priority project, a senior Gazprom official said Tuesday.

BERLIN, May 19 (UPI) -- GDF Suez will join the Nord Stream pipeline project before the end of the summer, a senior Gazprom official said Tuesday in Berlin.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- Just a year ago, Gazprom, Russia's state natural gas company behemoth and the country's biggest and most powerful company, seemed to go from strength to strength. Now, however, its policies have alienated one of its largest suppliers, Turkmenistan, and if Gazprom's management does not dramatically alter its policies, then it could lose access to the 42 billion to 45 billion cubic meters of natural gas it purchases annually from Turkmenistan, perhaps for good.

WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- During the past year, at a time of record-high energy prices, many European officials have decried what they see as Russia's state-owned Gazprom natural gas company being used as a tool to promote the Kremlin's policies by indulging in hardball "pipeline politics." Gazprom's favored tool is variable prices being used to send political signals to recalcitrant former Soviet republics such as Ukraine and Georgia, with the pressure ramping up in direct proportion to a government's inclination to look westward.