German DPU Investment GmbH in cooperation with Moscow Research and Manufacturing Association Kvant is planing to launch an investment project aimed at manufacturing  solar batteries with the amount of financing of  4,4 billion rubles in the Dinskoy district of Krasnodar Krai. The information is received from the Administration of the municipal corporation . The source […]

The company reports that the board of directors of JSC Gazprom Neft considers the issue of acquisition of Kazakhstan “Sonol Invest Ltd.” The agenda has one single point: JSC Gazprom Neft Kazakhstan purchases 100% of equity of “Sonol Invest Ltd.” The press service of Primu company explains that Sonol Invest disposes of four fuel stations […]

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation is against cancelling the excessive export duties on oil products, because this may cause the leap in prices at the Russian domestic market, the head of FAS Igor Artemyev told the journalists. “We do not favor this initiative, we believe that with the existing production volume, even […]

In 2012 Ukraine is planning to increase its own gas production by 5%  — to reach 21 billion cubic meters, the Minister of Energy and Coal Mining of Ukraine Yuriy Boiko. “We are going to improve out legislation, raise or technical level and invite the leading companies…which means implementing the set of actions which will […]

On January 17 at 10:52 Moscow time the capacity of the generating set at the Leningradskaya power plant was reduced by 500 MW due to a preliminary request. In compliance with the permission obtained in advance the turbogenerator #3 was disconnected from the network. The officially disclosed reason for that is the fault in the […]

Kazakhstan is suffering severe shortage of aviation fuel, the airports and domestic airlines have only about 40 tons of fuel at their disposal, the press-service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the republic reported on Friday. “As of January 6 the remaining volume of the fuel in the airports makes up 30.7 thousand […]

A number of bus lines in Yekaterinburg are still using buses with the Euro-0 engines (40 horsepower) and Euro-1 engines (195 horsepower). Such cars are both economically unviable and very harmful for the environment. This was stated during the round-table discussion dedicated to the city transportation problems by the deputy head of the Yekaterinburg administration […]

Uzbekistan stopped all deliveries of natural gas to Tajikistan without any warning, the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. In this connection the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received a letter from the head of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon. A month and a half ago Uztransgaz raised the price on gas exported to Tajikistan. Gas price […]

In 2011 the daily oil production in the Russian Federation reached its highest level for the last twenty years – 10.27 million barrels. The information which comes from the Energy Ministry of Russia makes it obvious that the country has produced such a considerable volume of oil for the first time since the USSR collapsed. […]

The new investigation of the events which caused the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1 is to begin in January 2012. The investigation will be resumed by the nuclear scientists who were engaged in the analysis of this disaster before. According to the preliminary investigation process strategy the nuclear experts are to be […]