According to the information of the World Bank, Kazakhstan and Russia are leaders in reducing the volumes of gas flaring and emission abatement. This is proved by the satellite data. The two countries are on top of the list of the states which were working on greenhouse gas emission abatement by reducing the amount of […]

A working meeting of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Gazprom Alexey Miller and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Russian Federation Kim Yong Jeh took place in Moscow today. The sides discussed the questions of the energy industry collaboration. The prospecting work on […]

Ukraine can’t sleep securely with the existing gas contract. According to the prime-minister of the country Nikolay Azarov the present agreement cannot be valid for a long time, because the Ukrainian side hopes to close the books on discussing this — very controversial both for Ukraine and for Russia — question, Vzglyad reports. The head […]

The company RIMERA which is representing the oilfield service division of the JSC Chelpipe, reached an agreement with the JSC GazpromNeft to acquire the Noyabrsk central pipe base. The sale agreement was signed recently in Noyabrsk, according to the company press service. The deal will allow RIMERA to become one of the largest independent players […]

Inter RAO UES is ready to stop the power delivery to Belarus starting from 0:00 June 29. The Russian company never got the expected next tranche from Belenergo to cover for the debt accumulated for the previous power deliveries. The representative of the Russian company Anton Nazarov warned that the request for supply interruption to […]

Boiler houses in Tomsk Region are going to switch from oil to alternative fuel. Such announcement was made by the Governor of the region Victor Kress in the course of the staff meeting, RIA Novosti reports. According to the information of the agency, the changes will take place in the framework of the preparation of […]

Gazprom sent its comments to the government draft regulations on electronic gas hub trading and is looking forward to their publication, the member of the board of the holing and CEO of Gazprom mezhregiongaz Kirill Seleznev at the press-conference on Monday. “We sent our comments – I even fear to say how many times we […]

The Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin thinks it is necessary to establish a strict control over the intended use of funds appropriated to the energy companies by the authorities. “Recent audits of our grid companies show that the companies which receive investment money do not always invest it in the development, but simply ‘guzzle them […]

The nuclear power plant in Bushehr can be set into operation in a little more than a month. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov, according to Interfax. ‘The project has been completed, everything’s up and running, now it is the matter of process engineers,’ he said […]

The specialists of Rosneft Ltd. discovered another oil deposit in the Krasnodar Territory within the boundaries of Slavyansko-Temryukovsky license block, which is already being exploited. As the representatives of the largest oil company in Russia say, according to the preliminary data the deposit may contain up to 500 thousand tons of ‘black gold’. At present […]