When the Russian wheat aphid first arrived in Australia in May, Australia’s grain industry went into a panic because the insect was potentially devastating for cereal crops. But no one could have predicted the record rainfall that hit parts of South-Eastern Australia, which has virtually wiped out the exotic pest. South Australian Government principal entomologist…
Russian car producer AvtoVAZ has partially reintroduced a four-day workweek on its facilities because of a continuing decline of the car market, a spokesman for the company reported. “AvtoVAZ has again shifted to a four-day workweek. The B0 platform assembling Lada Largus, XRay and the Renault-Nissan class cars still works under a five-day schedule. The…
StroyCazMontazh has completed the first start-up phase at the Punginskoye underground gas storage facility (UGS). Works for Punginskoye underground gas storage facility expansion have included installation of two 16MW GPUs and gas-collection system, consisting of 12 wells within three well groups, as well as construction of three administration buildings, a measuring point and a control…
Azerbaijan’s oil supply is anticipated to average 0.87 million barrels per day, unchanged from the previous report, indicating minor growth of 10,000 barrels in 2016, OPEC said in its monthly oil market report. Azerbaijan’s crude oil output in August decreased by 30,000 barrels per day to average 0.86 million barrels per day, said the report.…
The Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project is synchronized with expiration of Russia’s gas transit contract with Ukraine in December 2019, Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported. “Speaking of the Turkish Stream, the project’s implementation deadline is December 2019, which means that the infrastructure will be built until the end of 2019. It is in full…
Manned US missions to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Atlas V launch system and Boeing’s newly developing capsule will be carried out using Russia’s RD-180 engines, the Energomash space and rocket engine director Igor Arbuzov said. The first unmanned test launch of the heavy-lift Atlas V vehicle with Boeing’s Crew Transportation System (CTS)…
International Launch Services (ILS) and Eutelsat have announced the signing of two launch contracts for the 2018-2020 period. ILS is a Khrunichev Space Center subsidiary, which provides Proton-based launch services for global international commercial satellite operators, and Eutelsat Communications is one of the world’s leading operators of satellite communications, headquartered in Paris, France. The first…