Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the expansion of its nuclear fuel factory, situated in Vasteras, Sweden, in response to growing demand for nuclear fuel supply diversification for VVER-1000 reactors in Ukraine and other European countries. “The investment finances additional production facilities, fuel engineering work, as well as the procurement of additional process and assembly equipment…
The share in the Finnish company was sold in January 2016 Russian gas giant Gazprom sold a 25% stake it held in Finlands’s Gasum to the Finnish government for _251 mln, the Russian holding said in a report. “In January 2016, Gazprom sold its stake of 25% in Gasum to the government of Finland for…
National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy seeks in May to repay a revolving loan of $300 million issued by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and later to repeatedly take funds, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev has said. “We’ve paid $10 million… in May we will pay it in full for sure,” he told reporters…
Public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia has discovered a field in Shevchenkivsky district of Kharkiv region with estimated reserves of 290,000 tonnes of conventional fuel, the company’s press service has reported. The press service said that oil was discovered at depths from 2,100 to 2,200 meters. Industrial oil inflow was received during tests of a well in…
Nuclear fuel made by Westinghouse is scheduled to load to reactor two of Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP) in November and December 2016, President of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky has said. He said that Ukraine’s State Nuclear Regulation Inspectorate has finished its inspection. It was a success. “There are no doubts that…
Turkish news agency Anadolu reported earlier that project company Akkuyu Nuclear (74.915% of shares are owned by Rosatom Overseas) could potentially sell a 49% stake in the Akkuyu NPP project Rosatom has not changed its plans for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project, the company’s CEO Sergey Kirienko said on Wednesday. “We have not changed anything,”…
The State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” and The Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy for peaceful uses. The document was signed by Director General of ROSATOM and the Chairman of COMENA, Mohamed Derdour. The memorandum is aimed…
Prices for natural gas in Kazakhstan transported via gas distribution networks since March 2015 to March 2016 rose on average by 16.7 percent – to 15.35 tenges (333.81 tenges = $1) per cubic meter, according to a review of the country’s Energyprom.kz analytical service. Prices for liquefied gas in the country transported via gas distribution…
Setting the single price of gas for households at UAH 6,879 and for heating supply companies at UAH 6,810 per 1,000 cubic meters would add some UAH 7 billion of revenue of the national budget, Naftogaz Ukrainy Head Andriy Kobolev has said on Channel 5 TV. “People who earlier did not get subsidies will come…
The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on April 27 will decide on a single gas price for households and industry, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said. “We’ll consider an important decision for us and for the state – the question of establishing a single gas price. I am convinced we’ll put an end to…
Ukrainian Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Ostap Semerak, Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Director General Ihor Hramotkin and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development President Suma Chakrabarti have signed a Memorandum on the allocation of additional funds worth EUR 40 million to complete the construction of a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. Ukrainian President…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that the issue of energy saving will be discussed at the next sitting of Ukraine’s National Council of Reforms. President Poroshenko said this in his speech dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “It is clear that Ukraine either today or tomorrow,…
