Russia is in talks to build a gas pipeline to China which should be partially completed in the next five to six years and is interested in investing further in the country’s energy sector, Russia’s energy minister said on Thursday.
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June 1, 2007BP plc will likely lose its license for the giant Kovykta gas field on Friday, although the Russian government may postpone the recall until after the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg on June 10.
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Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom plans to build a gas-fueled power station in Germany, expanding further into the European electricity market.
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April 16, 2007The first floating nuclear power plant in Russia will be commissioned in 2010, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at a Monday meeting of the government chaired by President Vladimir Putin.
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April 9, 2007Russian state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom plans to become the world’s largest energy company, said the general director of company’s export arm Alexander Medevedev.
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April 4, 2007Wintershall, the energy division of the chemical company BASF AG, said on Friday, March 23, that it would invest more than €3.5 billion ($4.7 billion) over the next three years, most of it earmarked for its joint venture deals with Gazprom, the state-owned Russian gas giant.
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March 26, 2007A Russian helicopter with six people on board went missing on Wednesday in northern Russia, the Reuters news agency reported quoting a a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry.
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March 22, 2007On Tuesday, March 20, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree to charge rent on land under power lines, oil and gas pipelines.
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March 21, 2007Russia hopes for a package of energy and metals deals with African states, a ministry statement said on Friday, March 16, as a government delegation left for South Africa, Angola and Namibia. Some Russian firms however deny having any such plans.
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March 19, 2007The U.S. administration is actively taking part in several gas projects in order to crate a new gas pipeline infrastructure in Europe that will serve as alternative to Russian gas supplies, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried said on Thursday, March 15.
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