Germany’s credit institution KfW is providing a EUR 150 million loan for implementation of a project to reconstruct substations in eastern Ukraine. The individual loan agreement between Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers and KfW was signed at the ninth meeting of the Ukraine-Germany high-level group on economic cooperation. Eva Witt, KfW Director for Eastern Europe, Caucasus…
Belarus decreased electricity exports to Lithuania by 6.6% YoY in January-July to 83.7 million kWh, according to official statistical reports. Belarus’ proceeds from electricity exports to Lithuania reduced by 5.8% to $4.885 million. Lithuania was the key and basically the only destination of Belarus’ electricity exports in 2015. Belarus plans to export to Lithuania around…
Belarus produced 465,600 peat briquettes in January-August, up by 19.2% YoY, the Energy Ministry of Belarus reported. In August peat briquette output totaled 77,200 tons, up by 12.5% YoY. Peat output totaled 1.416 million tons in January-August, up by 26% YoY. In August peat output grew by 62.4% to 199,700 tons. Peat in Belarus is…
Construction of Russia-led Turkish Stream gas pipeline will start in 2018, gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reported. “A start to the project implementation has been given. Under our plan, construction will begin in 2018”, he said. Russia and Turkey signed an agreement to build the pipeline, which would consist of two branches with a…
Russia has agreed to cut the 2016 gas price and has outlined a plan of further reductions for the next few years for Belarus, while Minsk agreed to redeem a $300 million debt for past deliveries, government officials said. “The debt, which has accrued for January gas payments will be redeemed fully until October 20.…
Russia’s average daily oil and gas condensate output grew to 11.2 million barrels daily in October from 11.11 million barrels in September, setting a new post-Soviet record high, Bloomberg reported, citing preliminary data of CDU TEK, an agency that provides data and analysis to the Russian Energy Ministry. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that…
In 2015 Naftogaz Ukrainy increased production of oil and condensate by 20.7% YoY, to 318,000 tons (2.33 million barrels). According to a company consolidated report, posted on its website, commercial gas production was 192 million cubic meters, up 4.8 times YoY. In general, since the launch of the project in Egypt in 2009 a total…