There is a commonly held…
Europe, long considered Gazprom’s “bread…
Kuwait has failed to boost…
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters that “no one” should attempt to test either the Turkish government or the country's history, a less than veiled reference to the Republic…
State-owned Russian Federation natural gas monopoly intends to invest $100 million in prospecting for oil and natural gas deposits in Kyrgyzstan. Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller told the press, “We intend…
Indonesia’s Medco Energi Internasional is shortly to start high-caloric thermal coal exports to China later this year. Medco Energi Mining Internasional chief executive Arie Prabowo Ariotedjo said of the exports,…
The downfall of the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is impacting eastern Africa. Libyan firm Tamoil in 2007 was awarded a contract to construct the $300 million Eldoret Kampala…
United Arab Emirates Assistant Foreign Minister Ahmad al-Jabir, special envoy for energy affairs and climate change, and chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), has urged oil-exporting…
In the wake of the 11 March nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power complex, the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to shutter the country’s…
As South Africa has very limited natural gas reserves, the country’s Department of Energy is awaiting the outcome of an assessment of the nation’s shale gas potential. South Africa’s Department…
Argentina is on schedule to import 66 liquefied natural gas cargoes in 2011, three times the amount it purchased in 2010. Argentina has two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals…
Due to the Nigerian government’s ongoing delay in passing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), Russian state-owned natural gas company Gazprom may suspend its investment in a $2.5 billion natural gas…
A senior official in Pakistan’s Finance Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the U.S. government is considering providing $1 billion for Pakistan’s Diamer-Bhasha dam over a period of…
Russia and Ukraine have sparred for years over transit issues of Russian natural gas using Ukraine’s pipeline network to supply is European customers. Last week Ukraine announced that it was…
The United Kingdom has brought online Tajikistan’s first site to house radioactive material in Tajikistan. Tajikistan has massive uranium fields which were developed The storage facility was constructed in…
India’s extraordinary economic growth includes a contentious civilian nuclear program, as New Delhi has not signed the NPT. India’s indigenous nuclear energy program is nevertheless proceeding. Indian Space…
Russia's state monopoly Gazprom is nervously contemplating change is in its transit agreements with Ukraine for delivering its natural gas to Eastern European customers. Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov announced…
Argentinean biofuel production, domestic consumption and exports all set new records in the second quarter of 2011. During the second quarter of 2011 Argentinean biofuel production averaged 209,486…
Following the lead of neighboring Poland, where shale gas exploration is already under way, foreign and local companies have applied for exploration permits in the Czech Republic. Current…
According to Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's latest report on Iran's nuclear program show that the country is cooperating…
Ubbink East Africa has built a $2.7 million solar panel factory in Naivasha, Kenya. Ubbink East Africa Managing Director Haijo Kuper said during the official opening ceremony that the company…
Multinational giant oil firms, including Royal Dutch Shell, BP, United States-based Exxon, China's State-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and Italy's Eni signed technical service contracts to develop three oilfields…
Panama’s National Energy Secretariat has announced that 900 million barrels of oil have been detected at two basins in eastern Panama, representing a potential contribution to the Panamanian Treasury of…