In January-June Belarus exported 2.25 million tons of oil products to Ukraine, up by 64% YoY, a source in the relevant ministry reported. Belarus’ proceeds from exports of petroleum products to Ukraine grew by only 4% YoY, to $823.4 million, due to the global decline in oil prices. Belarusian petroleum products are shipped to Ukraine…
DetailsAzneft production association of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR plans to drill 11 new wells by the year end at the Gunashli and Chilov offshore fields, said a SOCAR message posted on its website. SOCAR plans to drill seven wells at shallow-water part of the Gunashli field and four wells at the Chilov field, which…
DetailsNational air carriers of Azerbaijan and Turkey are satisfied with the level of the current cooperation and intend to further expand it, said the Vice President of Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC (AZAL) Eldar Hajiyev. AZAL and Turkish Airlines have been carrying out flights under a code-sharing agreement for two years, said Hajiyev. “This allowed for further…
DetailsAt least 50,000 tons of Tash-Kumyr coal valued at 137.5 million soms will be purchased for Bishkek HPP, Electric Stations JSC reported. The company announced another tender for the purchase of fuel. The previous tender was canceled due to the fact that the committee members had questions as to coal caloric value. The procuring entity…
DetailsIn January-June foreign investors injected $4.7 billion into the Belarusian economy, the National Statistics Committee informed. The primary investors were economic operators of Russia (50.2% of the investment), the UK (20.5%) and Cyprus (7.5%). Foreign direct investments amounted to $3.9 billion. In H1 2016 Belarusian economic operators (except for banks) transferred Br2 billion in investments…
DetailsThe Deposit Guarantee Fund as part of the pre-sale preparations proposed to investors to appraise a pool of credits issued by Delta Bank being under liquidation secured by vegetable oil handling assets on the territory of Illichivsk port. According to a posting on the fund’s website, claims to 14 credits issued by Delta Bank worth…
DetailsIn 2015/2016 Russian wheat exports totaled 24.65 MMT, up by 15% YoY. Main tendencies of the finished season were the decrease in wheat purchases from Turkey and higher exports to Egypt. Thus, share of Turkey in Russian wheat exports decreased from 20% in 2014/2015 to 13% in 2015/2016. While the share of Egypt grew to…
DetailsIn January-July seaports of Russia increased the shipment volumes of grains by 16.9% YoY, to 15.3 million tons, the Association of Sea Commercial Ports of the Russian Federation announced. At the same time, in the reporting month some increase in mineral fertilizers shipment was observed – by 2.8%, to 9.3 million tons. The general cargo…
DetailsThe Russian ban on the supplies of food products established in 2014 contributes to development of domestic agro-industrial complex and should be extended after the end of its effective term (December 2017), the Minister of Agriculture of Russia Alexander Tkachev declared. “In order to further promote import substitution, increase the competitiveness of the domestic production…
DetailsYuzgas B.V. (the Netherlands), which won the tender for an investor in the production sharing agreement (PSA) for hydrocarbons extraction on Yuzivska field (Donetsk and Kharkiv regions), has undertaken an investment of $200 million in geological exploration during the first five-year phase of the PSA. “In particular, during the first year the sum will be…
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