Iran believes it is necessary to expand the energy cooperation with Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, said Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh. Zanganeh made the remarks during a meeting with SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev in Baku on August 8. During the meeting, Abdullayev pointed to the rapid and successful development of Azerbaijani-Iranian relations, which…
Electricity consumption in Kyrgyzstan decreased, the National Electric Network of the Kyrgyz Republic JSC reported. According to recent reports of the central dispatching service of the company, in July distribution companies consumed 555.11 million kilowatt-hours. Last year, consumption was 570,599 million kilowatts. It should be noted that according to the decision of the government on…
Electric Stations JSC announced repeated tender for purchase of local coal for the Bishkek thermal power plant. The company failed to buy Kara-Keche fuel on the first try. Application received from “Kyrgyzkomur” SE was rejected because of violations in the documentation. The consortium members have put fake certificates on absence of debts to the Social…
SOCAR Energy Ukraine (a subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR in Ukraine) supplied almost 50% of diesel fuel to PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia within the agreement reached on the results of the tender, said the Ukrainian company in a message on August 8. “As of August 8, the volume of the shipped diesel fuel by SOCAR…
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says his country is interested in cooperation with Ukraine, namely in the manufacture of turbines that generate electricity. “We have considered the issue of cooperation of Indonesia with Ukraine in the areas of the manufacture of turbines for power generation”, he told reporters after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The…
The Russian government may have no time to privatize a 19.5% stake in oil major Rosneft in 2016, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said. “We can have no time”, Ulyukayev said. He said that the fulfillment of a plan to raise 1 trillion rubles for the state budget from privatization of assets in 2016 depends…
Russia’s revenue from natural gas exports decreased by 31.6% YoY, $14.97 billion in January-June, the Federal Customs Service said. Russia exported 95.4 billion cubic meters of gas in January-June, up by 6.95% YoY. Exports to non-CIS countries rose by 14.6%, to 78.3 billion cubic meters, and exports to CIS countries went down by 18.27%, to…