Joao Peixe

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• Poland Still Supports Ukraine’s Oil Pipeline

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 5,665 times

  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…

• Deal Signed for Vietnam’s Mong Duong Power Plant

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 7,171 times

  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…

• Vietnam Considers Wind Power

  Published 25 July 2011 | viewed 5,037 times

  While Vietnam is a rising exporter of hydrocarbons, government authorities are increasingly interested in increasingly the country’s investments in renewable power sources. According to World Bank…

• Chinese Imports of Iranian Petroleum Products Soar

  Published 25 July 2011 | viewed 6,132 times

  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 Launches its First Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor

  Published 23 July 2011 | viewed 7,942 times

  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…

• Russian Company Sues Bulgaria Over Nuclear Plant Project

  Published 23 July 2011 | viewed 4,214 times

  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…

• Russian Navy’s Nuclear Power Plant Repair Funding Stolen

  Published 21 July 2011 | viewed 4,541 times

  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…

• South Korea Buys Share in Jamaican Electricity Company

  Published 21 July 2011 | viewed 5,516 times

  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, Argentina Dispute Over Shared Hydroelectric Facility

  Published 20 July 2011 | viewed 5,966 times

  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…

• Oil Industry Workers See Foreign Influence Over Failure of Oil Bill

  Published 20 July 2011 | viewed 5,000 times

  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…

• Burma, China Ignoring Environmental Warnings for Dam

  Published 19 July 2011 | viewed 5,558 times

  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 Oilibya Stops Paying Libyan Government

  Published 19 July 2011 | viewed 7,974 times

  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.…

• India Granted a Waiver by Nuclear Suppliers Group

  Published 18 July 2011 | viewed 5,144 times

  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…

• World Bank Provides $99 Million Grant for Nepal Power Project

  Published 18 July 2011 | viewed 5,118 times

  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 to Issue $15 Billion in Bonds

  Published 18 July 2011 | viewed 6,177 times

  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,…

• Belarus Selling off its Energy Assets to Russian Firms

  Published 16 July 2011 | viewed 4,732 times

  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,…

• China to Keep Rare Earths Export Quota at 2010 Levels

  Published 15 July 2011 | viewed 6,230 times

  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 Largest Oil Company Joins Colombia’s Oil Rush

  Published 14 July 2011 | viewed 5,720 times

  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 Suspends Oil Supplies Via Georgian Supsa Pipeline

  Published 14 July 2011 | viewed 5,529 times

  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,…

• Major Colombian Oil Pipeline Attacked, Yet Again

  Published 13 July 2011 | viewed 4,406 times

  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…