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Astana. Some 89, 592 vehicles with installed conversion kits (gas-cylinder equipment) were registered by the Interior Ministry of Kazakhstan in the first half of the current year. This is 44. 5 percent more compared to the same period last year, the Kazakh media reported Aug. 6 referring to ...

Moscow. NOVATEK announces that FTSE Russell reconfirms that NOVATEK remains a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index following their June 2018 index review. The FTSE4Good Series is designed to measure the performance of companies demonstrating strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ...

Moscow. PAO Transneft says Aleksandr Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, has been elected as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. Ilya Klebanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sovcomflot, appointed as Independent Director of the Company. The Board ...

Baku, Azerbaijan. The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is strategic work in terms of energy supply to Italy. This was said by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in Washington. “I discussed this with President Trump and I ...

Moscow. China launched twin satellites into space with a single carrier rocket on Sunday, Chinese media reported. The Long March-3B carrier rocket was launched off Xichang Satellite Launch Center with the 33th and 34th satellites of the Beidou navigation system, Xinhua news agency reported. ...

Tokyo. The dollar ticked up slightly on Tuesday, adding to gains made in overnight trade. This happened after U. S. Treasury yields rose on expectations the Federal Reserve would persist with its rate hikes this year. The dollar index . DXY, a measure of the currency against a basket of ...

Moscow. A gas explosion has taken place at the Volzhsky Ship Repair Yard in Russia’s Volgograd Region, a source in the regional head office of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. He’s adding that "we have fatalities and casualties. " At the same time, sources in the ...

Khabarovsk. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has castigated a US bill on introducing sanctions against investors of the Nord Stream 2 project, branding it absurd and illogical. Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, introduced a bill to slap sanctions on investors in Russian ...

Moscow. Silk Way Rally, an international off-road race, is scheduled to kick off in Astrakhan on 20 July 2018. SIBUR is sponsoring an environmental awareness initiative involving separate collection of plastic bottles along the race route. In 2017, the Russian Ministry of Natural ...

Moscow. PJSC "LUKOIL" (hereinafter the Company) reports on the beginning of the active execution phase of the strategic initiatives supported by the Board of Directors in December 2017. That’s during the review of the LUKOIL Group Strategic Development Program for 2018-2027. ...

LUKOIL and the Sheremetyevo International Airport have successfully completed the construction of a new fueling facility with a capacity of up to 1. 2 million tonnes per year. Reported the press service of LUKOIL. ​The tank battery, with a nominal volume of 20 thousand cubic meters of ...

London. At least three top staff recently left London-based hedge fund firm MarkhamRae, which has underperformed its peers and saw three of its biggest investors pull out almost $300 million. Head of Distribution Kerry Duffain, Cameron Christie, a partner, and Janos Hawkins, senior ...

Kiev. Kiev’s decision to delegate Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin to the trilateral gas talks in Berlin rather than the country’s Minister of Coal and Energy Igor Nasalik, was greenlighted by the government and connected to the allocation of responsibilities pursuant to the EU ...

Baku, Azerbaijan. The Russian automaker UAZ intends to deliver 1, 000 cars to Uzbekistan in 2018. Which is almost 2. 5 times more than in 2017, Podrobno. uz reported. The Ulyanovsk automobile plant delivered 5, 101 cars abroad in 2017, which is 47 percent more than a year earlier. Most ...

The boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach have been in hospital following a successful international effort to rescue them last week after they became trapped in the flooded Tham Luang cave complex. The government has allotted a 45-minute slot to Wednesday’s news conference on ...

Berlin. Russia is ready to extend the current contract on gas transit via the Ukrainian territory or discuss a new one. About it Energy Minister Alexander Novak said following the trilateral gas talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union on Tuesday. "We are ready to extend ...

Helsinki. Russia and the United States can work constructively in regulation of global markets of energy resources. About it president Vladimir Putin said on Monday after talks with US President Donald Trump. "I believe that we as the largest oil and gas powers, and the United States ...

Moscow. Some onboard systems for Russia’s future 6th-generation fighter jet are being tested aboard the Su-57 fighter. There are no plans to create the unmanned version of the Su-57. "It is currently being used to test some systems of the future sixth-generation fighter jet, ...