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Baku. Azerbaijan’s exit from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will not impact the progress or the construction of any of the project along the Southern Gas Corridor value chain, SGC Co told the Natural Gas Word (NGW). “All of the partners have committed to ...

Moscow. The new high-rise office building of Transneft Kama Region, JSC was officially opened in Kazan on 16 March 2017. The new building is located on a land plot of 11, 587 sq. m at 20 Lumumba street in the city centre. The event was attended by the President of Tatarstan, Rustam ...

London. The moment a group of Nigerian contractors met executives from Italian oil major Eni to discuss unpaid wages they started shouting, calling them fraudsters and liars until a police commander restored calm. Wenenda Mpi, local manager of Eni unit Agip, blamed the payment delays on ...

Moscow. LUKOIL Lubricants Company has received the “Best Russian Supplier 2016” award in the Russia Automotive Forum (RAF) for its contribution to the Russian motor lubricants industry. About it reports a press-service of LUKOIL. The awarding ceremony was held on March 15 in Moscow ...

Paris. Decline of oil prices is due to several factors, including production growth in the United States and possible changes in the further actions of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia’s Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin told reporters. ...

Moscow. Gazprom will invest 100 bln rubles ($1. 7 bln) in the development of gas supply system of Kyrgyzstan, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev. "The total volume of investments in the republican gas supply network will be ...

Berlin. OMV's CEO Rainer Seele calls "incredible" the OPAL gas pipeline is blocked for political reasons. "It is incredible that due to political interests the pipeline is blocked, " he told. Head of the Austrian group said he did not doubt a legal settlement is ...

Moscow. Rosneft, after purchasing Bashneft, is ready to sell part of gas stations in the regions where their share exceeds 50%, according to Head of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Igor Artemyev. "Rosneft does not oppose (selling gas stations in the regions). In ...

Moscow. South Stream Transport B. V. and Allseas Group today signed in Amsterdam a contract to build the second string of the TurkStream gas pipeline’s offshore section. The document was signed as part of the option included in the construction contract for the pipeline’s first ...

Abuja. Nigeria said it lost out on as much as $100 billion in revenue last year as attacks by militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta cut crude output to a record low. Production fell by 1 million barrels a day to 1. 2 million a day at the peak of the attacks, Emmanuel Kachikwu, minister of state ...

Moscow. The delegation of representatives of Russian oil companies will visit Venezuela next week, Venezuela's minister of petroleum Nelson Martinez told a press conference in Caracas, as it follows from the documents of the Ministry. "We expect that a delegation of entrepreneurs in ...

Almetyevsk, Tatarstan. The Company continued active design works on re-engineering the procurement system of TATNEFT Company in 2016 with introduction of the procurement categorization mechanisms, delegation of authority and responsibility personalization, as well as establishment of the ...

Moscow. On 08 February 2017 representatives of English and Dutch concern Shell visited the industrial facilities of Transneft in Novorossiysk. The working visit was conducted as part of implementation of the programmes of sharing experiences between the companies’ specialists. The ...

Murmansk. Russia expects that a U. N. commission will discuss its bid to extend its continental Arctic shelf this year more actively, Natural Resources and Environment Ministry Minister Sergei Donskoi told reporters on February 12. Russia has been seeking to add the Lomonosov and Mendeleyev ...

Moscow. Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy, Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Artem Sidorov and First Executive Vice President of LUKOIL Ravil Maganov have signed a tripartite agreement on cooperation. ​The ...

Moscow. LUKOIL Lubricants Company signed an agreement on delivery of LUKOIL Tornado T46 turbine oil to the Russia’s second largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant Yamal LNG for servicing Siemens compressor equipment. LUKOIL Tornado T is a modern turbine oils based on synthetic ...

Dushanbe. Turkey has granted all the permits required for the start of work on the Turkish Stream pipeline, Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky told TASS. "All permits have been obtained, those which are necessary, " Yanovsky said. Earlier, the head of Gazprom ...

Moscow. Rosneft and Republic of Bashkortostan signed cooperation agreement arranging general principles of cooperation between the parties. The document was signed by Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin and Head of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov. The Agreement is aimed at ...