The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has signed a basic non-disclosure agreement with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Zarubezhneft over two oil fields in the western Iran, NIOC said in a statement. Under the agreement, the Russian company will study West Paydar and Aban oil fields and present its proposals to increase the recovery rate of…
According to official data, by July 8, Russian farmers have threshed 2579 thousand ha (5.5%) of grains and legumes against 1777.5 thousand ha by the same date in 2015. 11221.5 KMT was harvested with average yield 4.35 MT/ha (in 2015 – 6698.4 KMT with 3.77 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 1670.3 thousand ha (6.1%), up…
On July 11, the seventh tanker of Project RST54, Balt-Flot 6, built by Okskaya shipyard (Hull No 5407), was put into operation, says the shipyard. It is the sixth ship of Project RST54 built by Okskaya Shipyard for Balt Flot Tanker (BFT, Saint-Petersburg), says the Project designer Marine Engineering Bureau. Krasnoye Sormovo Okskaya shipyard and…
Upon completion of the modernization and sea trials, M/V Mikhail Sveltov of Project Q-65 has left for her maiden voyage to the Lena Pillars park, Unesco World Heritage Site in Yakutia, says press center of Marine Technics which developed the modernization project. The joint work with Lena United River Shipping Company on replacement of the…
In January-June Kyivsky cardboard paper mill, a leader in Ukraine’s pulp and paper industry in terms of production and sales, produced 2.02 billion UAH worth of products, up by 15.7% YoY. According to the UkrPapir association, the mill saw a rise in production of corrugated cardboard packaging and production of base paper in kind in…
Crops harvesting started in Baydibek District of South Kazakhstan region. Total planted area reaches 31.824 thousand ha. 6.6 KMT of wheat have been already harvested from 3.54 thousand ha of planted area with average yields at 1.86 MT/ha. Productivity is quite high in the region. Average wheat yields reached 1.14-1.15 MT/ha in the country. The…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has held a meeting with the leadership of the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the direction of deepening cooperation in the energy sector. “The energy sector reform is now one of the priorities for the government. The tasks on the agenda are as follows: to open access to the energy…