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Atomstroyexport, Westinghouse, Areva bid for Temelin tender  CEZ said three companies have placed preliminary bids to build up to five nuclear reactors for the Czech power firm. France’s Areva, Russia’s Atomstroyexport and US’ Westinghouse entered a tender to expand the Czech Republic’s EU, US boost cooperation through Energy Council  EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and US Secretary for Energy Steven Chu attended the launch of a new EU-US Energy Council on 4 November in Washington DC, aiming to boost transatlantic energy cooperation.
The EU said Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan eye Asian energy markets  One of the most talked about news in Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry today is that Caspian gas, in particular, from Azerbaijan may turn 180 degrees around and flow east instead of west, toward China. Turkmen plans to build naval base revive Caspian debate The habitual tranquility among the five littoral states of the energy-rich Caspian Sea has been broken by the Turkmen leader’s announcement early September of his country’s intention to create a naval base and to acquire Lithuanian energy company to be liquidated Shareholders of a huge Lithuanian company formed just 14 months ago to serve as a “national energy champion” voted on September 4 in Vilnius to liquidate it. The move marks the beginning of the end Borisov’s Blind Man’s Bluff with Putin  Bulgaria attended the celebrations in Poland’s Gdansk on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, but Sofia’s focus was on the meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Swedish nuclear watchdog to supervise NPP A Swedish nuclear watchdog on July 8 decided that a local nuclear power plant should be placed under special supervision, citing a spate of incidents at the plant. The move was a new setback for Norwegian Sea field starts production France’s Total said the Tyrihans oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea started production. This field, in which Total owns a 23.18 percent interest, is the largest field to be brought on stream in SOCAR: Guarantees needed from Tengiz and Kashagan  SOCAR head in Kazakhstan Vurgun Jafarov talked to New Europe correspondent in Astana Kulpash Konyrova about the creation of the Caspian Transportation System, the transport of Tengiz crude through the Azerbaijan and regional energy transport EU fines Germany’s E.ON, France’s GDF Suez 1 bln Euro The European Commission slapped more than one billion Euro in instant fines on two giant gas utility companies on July 7, saying they had been fixing the market. E.ON of Germany and GDF Suez SA EU to summon lenders to help Ukraine with gas  The European Union’s executive is to summon international lenders to Brussels this week to discuss if they can help Ukraine pay for Russian gas destined for the EU, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Baltic countries to boost energy ties  Eight countries from around the Baltic Sea on June 17 agreed to link up their energy markets in a bid to make them less dependent on outside suppliers such as Russia. The prime ministers of Oil price hike helps Burgas-Alexandroupolis The Bourgas-Alexadroupolis oil pipeline will move forward regardless if oil prices rise or fall since the project is needed as an alternative for increased oil exports from Russia and the Caspian that will further burden Nord Stream completes environmental reporting Nord Stream AG, the consortium and developer for the Nord Stream gas pipeline wrapped up a two-day meeting in Germany to vet public and shareholder comments on a trans-boundary environmental report submitted by the project Developing countries block IAEA nuclear fuel bank plans Developing countries on June 18 blocked plans by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for nuclear fuel banks that aim to keep countries from acquiring sensitive nuclear technology by offering them alternatives, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) EU’s energy dilemma  Ukraine’s difficulty to make its “draconian” gas payments to Russia and refill its underground gas storage supplies for this winter may lead to another gas crisis that may indirectly affect gas supplies to the European New Lithuanian nuclear plant seen in 2018  A planned new nuclear reactor in Lithuania to serve all three Baltic states and Poland could be ready by 2018 Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said on June 11. “We expect that 2018, if work E.ON to sell power plants to Verbund German energy giant E.ON AG agreed to sell 13 power plants to Austrian provider Verbund, both companies announced on June 8. The companies did not release a sales price for the hydroelectric plants with a EU fines Electrabel for French takeover The European Commission on June 10 fined Belgian energy firm Electrabel 20 million Euro for failing to inform it of a takeover in France. The Commission has decided to fine Electrabel “for acquiring control of Shell to sell gasoline blended with biofuel For one month starting June 10, the regular gasoline purchased at a Shell service station in Ottawa, Canada will contain 10 percent cellulosic ethanol, Shell said in a press relase. The biofuel is produced locally |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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