Russia’s developing the continental shelf may become the beginning of “a new high-technology industry of world class and scale” the prime-minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said in the course of the meeting, which was held on Thursday 12.04.2012. Together with Putin the possibility of the shelf development was discussed by the vice prime-minister […]

Sergei Shmatko, the head of the Energy Ministry of the Russian Federation, held the negotiations with Hina Rabbani Khar, the head of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Pakistan. The heads of the two ministries in Russia and Pakistan considered the current perspectives of the two countries in the energy sphere and the further ways of […]

If the inspections which are being carried out in electrical energy industry reveal serious violations, they may result in criminal cases, the vice prime-minister of the Russian Federation Igor Sechin told the journalists. Answering the question of whether the criminal cases will be started after such inspections, he said: “This is not my department but […]

In his speech at the opening of the Moscow Energy Week the Energy Minister of Tussian Sergei Shmatko said that in the coming years the Russian oil refining industry will receive 20-25 billion American dollars of investment. According to the minister this will enable escaping from the present day situation, when Russia exports black oil, […]