Ukraine is interested in deepening and expanding bilateral cooperation with the United States in the energy sector, in particular, intends to increase the supply of nuclear fuel produced by U.S. Westinghouse to 30% of the demand, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk has said at a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine…
Ukraine is prepared for trilateral gas talks with Russia with the European Commission’s involvement, Director of the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s Planning and European Integration Department Mykhailo Bno-Airiian said on Facebook. Bno-Airiian said Ihor Nasalyk, the new energy and coal minister, had written to the EC about this on Monday. “In his letter…
The Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan says 139,000 tons of oil products have been delivered to the country over the first three months of this year, which was nearly 15 percent fewer than in the same period last year. In January-March 2015, Tajikistan reportedly imported 163,000 tons of oil products. Russia provides…
The volume of oil produced from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil and gas fields’ block in Azerbaijan from November 1997 to Apr.1, 2016, stood at 393 million tons, and 218 million tons of this volume accounted for the country’s profit oil, Khoshbakht Yusifzade, first vice-president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), said. He made the remarks…
The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) fully meets the interests of Turkey, and its importance lies in the fact that it is controlled by Baku and Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Chief Adviser Yigit Bulut said Apr. 25 in an interview with the TV channel TRT Haber. “TANAP will turn Turkey into an energy…
Nuclear fuel loading into the core of WWER-12000 reactor has started at Novovoronezh NPP. It is carried out in the framework of the first criticality program that is now running at the innovative Unit 6 (Novovoronezh Phase II, Unit 1). The plant personnel have started working as prescribed by the reactor operating license granted by…
The startup of the 6th unit of Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant based on the WWER-1200 project means that Russia has outrun its rivals in nuclear power technologies, says Chief Editor of AtomInfo.ru Alexander Uvarov. RIA Novosti quotes Uvarov as saying that this is the world’s first unit operating a 3+ reactor. Neither Westinghouse nor Areva…
Международные доноры на конференции по сбору средств на счет ядерной безопасности в Киеве 25 апреля приняли решение о дополнительных взносах на реализацию чернобыльских проектов на общую сумму 87,5 млн. евро. Об этом сообщил посол Японии в Украине Шигеки Суми. “Сегодня страны G7 анонсировали, что они сделают дополнительный взнос на сумму около 45 млн. евро, еще…
Бакинская Высшая школа нефти и Государственное агентство по альтернативным и возобновляемым источникам энергии Азербайджана подписали соглашение о сотрудничестве. Как говорится в сообщении Нефтяной школы, распространенном 22 апреля, в мероприятии приняли участие председатель госагентства Аким Бадалов, его заместитель Джамиль Меликов, заместитель заведующего Отдела по праву и международным связям госагентства Арзу Гусейнова, а также находившийся с визитом…
LUKOIL has started the construction of Kandym gas processing complex (GPC) in the Republic of Uzbekistan, which is a key production facility in the frame of development of the Kandym group of gas condensate fields located in the Bukhara region in the South-West of the country. The ceremony of laying the stone was attended by…
Rusatom Overseas said yesterday that Russian and Armenian nuclear power experts had held a workshop in Yerevan on 8 April for potential generating equipment suppliers to the program to extend the operating period of unit 2 of Armenia’s sole nuclear power plant. The seminar was attended by representatives of Russia’s Power Machines and ELSIB, and…
Ukraine on April 19 did not suspend supplies of gas from Hungary and continues its imports from Europe from three directions, Head of the public and media relations department at Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky wrote on his Facebook page. Data on the website of Hungary’s FGSZ confirm that imports was not halted, while data on Ukrtransgaz’s…