JSC TVEL, the fuel company of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, has signed the first contract on testing Russia’s TVS-Kvadrat nuclear fuel with a US nuclear power plant operator, Rosatom said. TVEL Vice President Oleg Grigoryev said in May that the first Russian test nuclear fuel assemblies TVS-K would be loaded into US reactors…
Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project may be resumed in case of difficulties with navigation through the Black Sea straits, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian pipeline operator Nikolai Tokarev said. “We have just recently received a formal notice of they support prospects of Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project. They are against winding-up a management company created for…
In order to facilitate cross-border gas flows and provide free and non-discriminatory access to the gas transmission infrastructure, the National Gas Transmission Company Transgaz, Romania, and Natural Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine Ukrtransgaz have signed the interconnection agreement for the interconnection point “Isaccea” located at the Ukrainian-Romanian border near Orlovka (on the territory of…
MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) said that on July 16, a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP), while the press service of the National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom denied the information. “I learnt from reliable sources that the government was hiding the seriousness of the accident…
Uzbekistan called Tajikistan to address the complex problems with the energy supply of the country through the construction of small and medium-sized hydropower plants. This was noted in the letter of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda. The letter said:…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure has approved a 75%-discount for the oil transiting tankers that enter the Yuzhne port, and for the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline. The decision creates favorable terms for oil transiting using the Odessa-Brody pipeline. “The Tariffs Committee of Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry granted Ukrtransnafta’s appeal to set the economically favorable tariffs for port duties…
Ukraine and Romania have signed an agreement to link their gas transmission systems in order to ship gas from Ukraine through Romania to Bulgaria and in the reverse direction, Ukrtransgaz said in a statement. The agreement covers the gas pipeline route used to transport gas from Ukraine through Romania to Bulgaria via the Negru Voda…