The repair works are being executed by the specialists of MES East. The branch of OAO FSK UES – the Main electrical grids of the East (MES East) has embarked on the capital repairs of the transformer at substation 220 kV Prizeyskaya in the Amur region. At the same time the capital repairs of the […]

The Moscow oil refinery raises the price of diesel fuel for the third time this September. Starting from September 30 it is to go up by 1000 rubles per a ton and will comprise 27500 rubles per ton. Altogether September saw the diesel price rise of 2000 rubles per ton.

The largest manufacturer of power station coal in Russia – OAO Siberian Energy Coal Company (SIBENCO) cut down the number of OAO Primorskugol shares which are at its disposal – from 93.93% to 85.95%, the statement of Primorskugol says. The grounds for the interest cut is the fact that the company’s participation in the emitter […]

The specialists of the Southern power grids OAO Magadanenergo connected all the customers to the overhead power transmission line 35 kV Tsentralnaya-Avtotek, the overhead line 110 kV Tsentralnaya-Olskaya, and the overhead line 35 kV Olskaya-Klepka. Today a part of the city of Magadan was left without electricity due to rough weather. Strong winds and wet […]

Today at 12.10 as a result of a technological failure the Sakhalin state district power plant had a fall in its operating capacity. This caused an energy shortfall in the Sakhalin power system and as well as the restrictions in the power supply to the customers of the island. The causes of the incidents are […]

The Tyumen region sees the increase in gasoline and diesel fuel production. This is reported by the press-service of the Tyumenstat (the Statistics Service of Tyumen). For the week from September 19 to September 25 the production output of car gasoline in the Tyumen region (including the autonomous territories) increased by 0.7% compared to the […]

The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation Igor Artemyev said on Wednesday that in order to improve the situation at the oil products market it is necessary to split vertically integrated oil companies (VIOC) into retail, wholesale and production ones. “I am in favor of splitting VIOCs into retail, wholesale […]

The US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Konstyantyn Gryschenko effected the deal on the recovery of Ukrainian weapon-grade plutonium deposits. Clinton classified this deal as mutually beneficial pointing out that both the people of Ukraine and global safety will benefit from that, the news agencies […]

OAO Saratovenergo (the power supplier in the Saratov region) took out a 400 million rubles loan on overdraft from OAO Gazprombank says the company statement. Saratovenergo is going to spend these funds on financing the company’s economic activities. The loan interest rate makes up 5% per annum on the outstanding balance of the loan. The […]

Kazakhstan considers the possibility of carrying out tolling operations with the People’s Republic of China, the annual volume of which may comprise up to 1.5 million tons of crude oil, the Oil and Gas Minister of the republic Sauat Mynbaev says. “Concerning the system solution as to reducing the level of our dependence on Russia […]