The one thing you can do is to try and look for cheaper prices from different suppliers. This is the best way to reduce your outgoings as prices will vary from supplier to supplier and you may find a better deal if you switch.

We all would like to find cheap electricity and gas prices; one way of potentially saving some money is to find a supplier who offers both as a package. This is likely to save you more money than if you had two separate suppliers because dual deals often include incentives and price reductions.

Combining both utilities should reduce the cost and as your gas and electricity are with one supplier; it will reduce the stress and hassle should something go wrong as you only need to call one supplier rather than 2. After the deregulating of the gas and electricity industries in the late nineties, customers have a choice rather than only being able to have British Gas.

Nowadays, customers can compare British Gas’ prices to other suppliers’ prices. Some customers have found that British Gas offered them the best deals but many have decided to switch to a different supplier in an attempt to lower the cost of their gas and electricity bills.

Whoever you choose, customers are advised to shop online where they can compare all the deals and incentives from the leading suppliers and find the best deals available. Switching can really help save money so even if you have been with the same supplier; consider your options and you save some money.

Switching providers can help reduce your gas and electricity bills. Another good way of finding cheap electricity and gas is by shopping online and compare all the utilities providers with minimal stress and hassle.

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Most benefits come through eligibility to one, or more of the state benefits, such as Income Support, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit, or Jobseeker’s Allowance. And various fuel grants and schemes are available from the government backed initiatives which come under the umbrella title of the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme and include such names as Warm Front, Warm Deal and Warm Homes.

And help can also come from your energy company, like British Gas, which has devised a number of products and schemes to reduce the pain of rising fuel bills.

Brought together under their Essentials Advance package, British Gas works with its qualifying customers to not only help with bill payments, but also to pro-actively help them save energy.

The Essentials Advance package includes advice on energy efficiency, free insulation (which could help you save well over £250 off future bills) and a discount of £50 off your next bill, after your free insulation has been provided.

To be considered for Essentials Advance, you need to be an existing British Gas customer and receive any following:

Disability living allowance
Pension credit
Attendance allowance
Council tax benefit
Housing benefit
Income support
Income based job seeker allowance
War disablement pension (which includes either mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance)
Disablement pension ( which includes constant attendance allowance)
Child Tax credit (where relevant income is £15,592 or less)
Working Tax credit (where relevant income is £15, 592 or less).

If you think you are eligible, British Gas have a network of energy experts who will come around and visit you, talking you through the various schemes and plans that exist to help.

They can be reached via the telephone on 0800 072 7100.

They also provide help with debt support, recommend charities that also help and suggest other home energy plans.

But if you are having a problem with your British Gas bill, do call them on 0800 048 0404 and talk it through with specialist advisers.

British Gas also has established an independent charity, the British Gas Energy Trust, which offers existing customers help via grants and Further Assistance Payments.

For further information, visit: www.britishgasenergytrust.org.uk.

British Gas also has links with six other charities and regularly liaise on how to help people with their fuel bills. They also offer a ‘here to HELP’ programme which offers free, or subsidised insulation, and other key advice, via four of their charity partners, namely Help the Aged, Scope, RNIB and Money Advice Trust. More information can be obtained by telephoning 0845 605 2535.

Furthermore, the British Gas Home Energy Care Team provides help and advice for over half a million of its most vulnerable customers, including providing bills in alternative formats, gas safety checks and appliance controls that are specially adapted for older, ill, or disabled customers. Call 0845 955 5404 for more information.

And if English is not your native language, then British Gas can discuss your bill in a number of other languages, including Polish, Somali, Urdu, Turkish, Bengali and Punjabi.

All this is one very good reason to make sure British Gas is your energy provider.

This article was wrote by eCommerce Associate for British gas boilers

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Ukraine, being a net importer of energy, is well endowed with its own resources. Ukraine’s oil and gas reserves are estimated at the level of 2,3 billion barrels of oil equivalent, with natural gas contributing 87% of the total. Ukraine’s gas reserves account for 0,6% of total world proven gas reserves and 0,2% of oil reserves.

Ukraine`s hydrocarbon resources are estimated at 7-8 billion tons of fuel equivalent. Average annual oil and gas production amounts to 18 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 4 million tons of crude oil and covers 25 % of the demand for natural gas and 13 % of the demand for crude oil in Ukraine. Crude oil and natural gas are imported primarily from Russia, or through Russia from Turkmenistan (natural gas) and Kazakhstan (crude oil). Oil and gas make up to 60 % of the primary fuel consumption in Ukraine, including 40 % natural gas and 20 % oil.

 

Several major ?nternat?onal o?l and gas compan?es have ex?ted th?s country for var?ous reasons. But st?ll there are some med?um to small s?zed compan?es left ?n Ukra?ne. Most compan?es have bought themselves ?nto product?on assets w?th potent?al for brown f?eld explorat?on opportun?t?es. Some compan?es have expanded the?r explorat?on efforts to ma?nta?n and to expand the?r proven resources w?th?n the country.

Compan?es l?ke. Totalö ExxonMob?l. Shell and other majors l?ke Chevron. W?ntershall and OMW have all tr?ed to venture Ukra?ne o?l and gas product?on and explorat?on. W?thout any success. It ?s not the lack of opportun?t?es g?ven by mother nature. As geolog?sts have found several good opportun?t?es both onshore and offshore. However the pol?t?cal reg?me and the bus?ness env?ronment has not been ?n favour of these compan?es. And they have ex?ted the country.

 

Up to 250 enterprises of various types of ownership operate in the oil and gas sector: in exploration, production, refining or pipelines. The largest companies are subsidiaries of stateowned holding company Naftogaz Ukrainy.

 

Compan?es left ?n the country pursu??ng product?on and explorat?on opportun?t?es are a m?x from var?ous countr?es around the world as well as some domest?c players.

 

Naftogaz`s subsidiary Ukrgazvydobuvannya and subordinate companies Ukrnafta and Chornomornaftogaz produce 97% of domestic natural gas and 96% of domestic crude oil and condensate. Chornomornaftogaz extracts oil and gas in Crimea on the Black and Azov Sea shelves, while Ukrgazvydobuvannia and Ukrnafta operate on land. Ukrnafta itself, a 50% state-owned company, is the largest oil producer in Ukraine (94% of domestic oil production.) Despite the high level of state control, there is a number of successfully operating international companies in oil and gas extraction. They are mostly working in joint ventures or under joint activity agreements with Ukrnafta or with Naftogaz`s subsidiaries. The Law on Production Sharing Agreements and the Oil & Gas Law were intended to simplify the procedure of obtaining licenses for oil & gas exploration and extraction and provide additional guaranties for the investors.

 

Cap?tal O?l (Swed?sh)

 

V?kO?l (Ukra?n?an)

 

Cadogan (UK)

 

Hunt O?l (U.S.A)

 

Vanco (U.S.A)

 

Name not ava?lable at t?me of wr?t?ng art?cle (Norway)

 

Cardinal Resources plc (UK)

 

JKX Oil & Gas plc (UK)

 

Nostra Terra Oil and Gas Company plc (UK)

 

Regal Petroleum plc (UK)

 

TNK-BP Holding (Russ?a)

 

Ukrnafta VAT (Ukra?ne)

 

Ukrgazbydobuvannya Affiliated Company (Ukra?ne)

 

Naftogaz of Ukraine NJSC (Ukra?ne)

 

Shebelinkagazvydobuvannya (Ukra?ne)

 

Poltavgazvydobuvannya (Ukra?ne)

 

Kharkivgazvydobuvannya (Ukra?ne)

 

L’vivgazvydobuvannya (Ukra?ne)

 

Kuwa?t Energy (Kuwa?t) – Asset was prev?ously owned by Card?nal Energy Ltd (UK)

 

RAO Gazprom (Russ?a)

 

TNK (Russ?a)

 

Lukoil (Russ?a)

 

SlavNeft (Russ?a)

 

TatNeft (Russ?a)

 

Gruppa Alliance (Russ?a)

 

Kazakhoil (Kherson refinery) (Kazakhstan)

 

Chevron (USA)

 

USENCO (USA)

 

JV UkrKarpat Oil (USA)

 

JV Karpatsky Petroleum Corporation (USA)

 

Itera International Energy Company USA and Ukra?ne)

 

Itera-Ukraine (USA and Ukra?ne)

 

JV Eurogas (USA and Germany)

 

CanArgo Energy (UK)

 

Poltava Petroeum Company JV (UK)

 

Europa Oil & Gas Ltd (UK)

 

Polish Oil &Gas Company (Poland)

 

JV Plast (Greece-Cyprus)

 

All?ance O?l Company (Ref?ner?es) (Russ?a)

 

Ep?c Energy Ltd (Canada)

 

According to the 2008 gas balance, in the current year, the country will consume 75 bcm of this fuel, with 55 bcm being imported, while 20 bcm is of domestic extraction. The level of annual oil consumption in Ukraine is some 20 million tons with the domestic extraction of some 4.5 million tons of oil and gas condensate.

Ukraine`s hydrocarbon resources are estimated at 7-8 billion tons of fuel equivalent. Average annual oil and gas production amounts to 18 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 4 million tons of crude oil and covers 25 % of the demand for natural gas and 13 % of the demand for crude oil in Ukraine. Crude oil and natural gas are imported primarily from Russia, or through Russia from Turkmenistan (natural gas) and Kazakhstan (crude oil). Oil and gas make up to 60 % of the primary fuel consumption in Ukraine, including 40 % natural gas and 20 % oil.

There are three petroliferous regions in Ukraine: in the west (the Carpathian region), in the east (the Dnipro-Donetsk region) and in the south (the Black Sea – Azov Sea region). The Dnipro-Donetsk basin is a major producing region of Ukraine accounting for 90% of Ukrainian production from over 120 oil and gas fields. The cumulative production from the basin is estimated at over 52 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1,3 billion barrels of oil. Over 3,000 wells have been drilled in the basin to date. The basin holds potential for deep gas exploration (deeper than 3.8km). The Carpathian basin is relatively large – over 700 million barrels of oil and 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The Carpathian foredeep has been explored to depths of 4.0km to 4.5km. Despite the extensive activities, deeper parts of the basin offer very good potential for further exploration. The Black Sea – Azov Sea basin is predominantly gas-prone and includes natural gas fields. The Ukrainian part of the Black Sea shelf may have substantial oil and gas reserves, with mild weather and maximum water depth of 100 m. The hydrocarbon potential of the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf is substantial and it has been inefficiently explored, i.e. large structures in deeper waters have been bypassed due to the lack of offshore technology during Soviet times.

 

Amongst oil industry specialists working in Ukraine there is a widespread belief that, in spite of the challenges, the benefits both for investors and for the country from successful oil and gas exploration/production projects are potentially very substantial. Currently a great deal of work is being done in Ukraine by many dedicated individuals in government and in state organisations to maintain and extend the improvements in the legal, fiscal and business regimes. Such effort is now

being rewarded by a steadily improving climate for upstream investment. As a result the future for Ukraine’s oil and gas sector is now brighter than at any time previously.

 

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