Power plants of the Azerenergy JSC, Azerbaijan’s main electricity producer, generated 16.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in January-September as compared to 16.8 billion kilowatt hours generated in the same period of 2015. Azerenergy’s power plants produced about 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in September. In 2015, Azerenergy produced more than 22.5 billion kilowatt…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the country’s gas consumption fell by 30%. “Now Ukraine is consuming 30% less gas thanks to the mechanisms implemented”, he told students of the Shevchenko National University. He said tariff increases in the country were linked to the fact that Ukraine had gotten rid of dependence on Russian gas.…
The Ukrainian antimonopoly committee has filed a suit to the Kiev Economic Court to enforce recovery of a $3 billion penalty from Russian gas maker Gazprom, an official of the committee reported. The committee imposed the fine in 2015 to punish the company for its monopolist position on the transit gas market. Gazprom said it…
In January-September Ukraine imported coal and anthracite valued at $1.039 billion, in particular $133.663 million in September. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied coal for $674.18 million, the United States for $147.293 million, Australia for $69.103 million, other countries for $148.234 million. The total volume of coal delivered to the country for the…
Russian gas giant Gazprom may invest 120-140 billion rubles in the development of the Chayanda field and in construction of the Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia) natural gas pipeline in the republic of Yakutia in 2017, the republic’s head Yegor Borisov reported. “Speaking of Gazprom, we are only building plans today, we have not seen…
Russian gas giant Gazprom does not fear competition from the U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG), Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said. “We are very well prepared for competition. When they ask me if we fear competition with the U.S. LNG, I openly say that I am not afraid of that”, he said. Gazprom’s confidence comes from…
Yuzgas B.V. (the Netherlands) and its parent company, Emerstone Energy investment fund (Luxembourg), will consider the disclosure of their ultimate beneficiaries after they agree on the main provisions of the agreement on Yuzivska deposit with the government of Ukraine, reads a letter to Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk, promulgated by MP Viktoria…