OAO RusHydro put in operation the fourth hydroelectric set of the Chirkeyskaya HPP in Dagestan, the company’s press-release says. In the course of 8-month repair works at the hydroelectric set with the installed capacity of 250 MW the power transformer was fixed, the impeller and the rotor were rolled out, the turbine cover holder was […]

An international conference entitled “Russian market of liquefied gases: new frontiers of development ” took place on Tuesday, December 6 in Moscow. The event attracted the attention of the representatives of governmental bodies, the expert community as well as large companies dealing with gas processing. Among the major issues raised at the conference are extension […]

It is obvious that in 2011 Russia is going to cede the leading position in gas production to the USA again. According too the published information in the first 9 months of 2011 Russia produced 490.5 billion cubic meters of gas while the “USA — 505.4 billion cubic meters. According to the information from the […]

On November 26 2011 the fourth generating unit of the Kurskaya NPP was connected to the power grid after the outage period, the public information center of the Kurskaya nuclear power plant reports. The generating unit was commissioned in compliance with the requirements of the process regulations for safe operation. It is worth reminding that […]

The production of coal in Russia in the period from January to October 2011 comprised 271.735 million tons which is by 3.68% more than the level of the last year. This is stated in the published materials of the Central Control Administration of the Fuel and Energy Complex. Since the beginning of the year the […]

The electricity consumption in the period from January to October on the whole territory of Russia comprised 828.3 billion KWh (which is by 1.1 more than for the same period of 2010) including the Unified Energy Systems which consumed 811.28 billion KWh (which is by 1.1 more than for the same period of 2010). Since […]

The power engineers fully mitigated any effect of the accident in the Nizhniy Novgorod region which was caused by the power line break due to the strong wind, the regional office of the Emergencies Ministry reports. According to earlier reports , about 1.5 thousand people who live in the six districts of the Nizhniy Novgorod […]

Over 150 thousand people were left without electricity in the piedmont and mountainous areas of the Chechnya as a result of the accident at the thermal power plant, the official representative of the regional office of the Emergencies Ministry Timur Taisumov declares. “The electricity cut occurred at 15.35 Moscow time as a result of the […]

The Moscow-based company Slavneftgaz is planning to build an oil refinery with totaling to 1.9 billion American dollars in the Starodubskiy district of the Bryansk region, the Director General of ye company Vyacheslav Dubinnikov said at the regional economic forum on Tuesday. The corresponding agreement was signed on Tuesday by the Director General of Slavneftegaz […]

The high-latitude regions of the Western Arctic and the whole of the Eastern Arctic may turn out to be unavailable for oil production within the next 10 years. Such a proposal was made by the RF Ministry of Natural Resources (MinPrirody) within the framework of preparing the program of the continental shelf exploration. The moratorium […]