Athens has offered Prometheus Gas, a joint venture of Russian gas giant Gazprom and Greece’s Copelouzos, to invest 700-800 million euros in the development of a coal field in the country’s north and expansion of a local power plant. The deposit’s resources are estimated at around 140 million tons of coal. Energy Minister Alexander Novak…
Turkmenistan is increasing the electricity supply to neighboring Afghanistan, said Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in his message to the participants of the international energy conference in Ashgabat. “The high-voltage power transmission line, stretching from the Mary state power plant to the border with Afghanistan through the Atamyrat city, has improved the quality of electricity supply…
Construction of a power line of 500 kilovolts is under consideration for ensuring the electricity supply from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. The route of the new electricity grid will run in parallel to the route of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. Moreover, work is underway on constructing Mary – Sarakhs – Mashhad (Turkmenistan-Iran) overhead power transmission line…
International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering the possibility of financing the Southern Gas Corridor project, IFC representative in Azerbaijan Aliya Azimova said. She pointed out that this project was of great importance for the entire region. “We constantly follow the ongoing processes in this project and systematically connect with its main participants. However, for the…
Construction of a pipeline through Greece for supplies of Russian gas to Europe is a purely economic project and Athens is determined to implement it as soon as possible, Special Adviser to the Greek Prime Minister Dimitris Velanis said. “We will certainly go for implementation of the project. And Europe knows it”, he said. The…
In January-August Ukraine exported $109.49 million worth of electricity, in particular $11.122 million in August. According to the State Fiscal Service, electricity delivered to Hungary amounted to $82.897 million, $26.238 million to Poland, $347,000 to Moldova and $7,000 to other countries. In January-August Ukraine imported $2.759 million worth of power from Russia and $46,000 from…
In January-August Ukraine imported $902.221 million worth of coal and anthracite, in particular $104.331 million in August. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied coal for $594.937 million, the United States for $132.658 million, Australia for $49.461 million, other countries for $125.165 million. The total volume of coal delivered to the country for the…