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During a visit to Azerbaijan Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski declared that the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk crude oil pipeline project was still realistic while Azeri President Ilhman Aliyev…
The US-invested developer of the $2.1-billion Mong Duong 2 thermal power plant in the northern province of Quang Ninh has signed an adjusted build-operate-transfer contract…
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Chinese imports of Iranian oil jumped 53 percent in June over the previous month, according to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic…
China has brought its first fourth-generation nuclear reactor online. Located in the southwest suburbs of Beijing, fast neutron reactor has an electrical output of 20…
Russia’s Atomstroiekhsport has filed a lawsuit against Bulgaria's National Electricity Company to recover funds it say that it is owed for its work in constructing…
During a recent meeting in Kazan in connection with the sinking of the Volga transport Bulgaria, which killed 129 people, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin…
Underlining South Korea’s global energy interests, Seoul based Korea East-West Power Company Limited has negotiated a deal with the Jamaica government, which has given the…
Paraguay and Argentina share interests in the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam. The tariffs for the power generated by the facility have now become an issue of…
Nigeria’s National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has blamed the influence of multinational oil companies for the failure of the Petroleum Industry…
The hugely controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma, currently under construction by the China Power Investment Corporation, was the subject of a 2009 internal report…
Kenya’s oil marketing company Oilibya says it has suspended payments to the Libyan government. The announcement comes in the wake of sanctions issued by U.S.…
In 2008 the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the apex body that controls global nuclear commerce, granted India a waiver on the transferal of sensitive nuclear…
The World Bank is providing a $99 million grant for implementing the Nepal-India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project. World Bank country director for Nepal, and Bangladesh…
National Iranian Oil Company Managing-Director Ahmad Qalebani said that his company will issue $15 billion oil bonds in 2011. According to Qalebani, during March 2010-March 2011,…
The handwriting on the wall of the parlous state of the Belarus economy, which in the past two decades has signally failed to reform itself,…
Seeking to quell fears among its trading partners, Beijing has announced that it will keep its 2011 rare earths export quota at 2010 levels. China currently…
Argentina’s Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales, the country’s largest oil company, is investing in Colombia. YPF SA has agreed to partner for exploring for oil in Colombia…
BP-Azerbaijan, operating the Azeri export pipeline from the Azerbaijan’s Caspian oil export terminal at Baku westwards to the Georgian Black Sea oil terminus at Supsa,…
Colombia’s Cano Limon Coveñas oil pipeline has been attacked yet again, disrupting shipments and causing an oil spill in the Catatumbo river. The leftist Fuerza…