Monday, May 12, 2025
The gas pipeline from the Romanian city of Iasi to Chisinau is fully operational, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure of Moldova Andrei Spinu, Russian media reported. "After many years of work and bureaucracy, the Iasi-Chisinau gas pipeline gives us access to the European energy market," Spinu said on...
Power unit No. 1 of the Belarusian NPP (BelNPP) is again included in the grid. The power unit shut down on July 12 after the automatic protection of the generator was triggered, according to the Ministry of Energy of Belarus, local media reported. At the power unit, the parts of...
While many countries are starting to shift away from coal as their primary energy source, it is obvious, according to Izvestia, that it will not be a simple or fast transition. When coal prices fell to $35-40 a ton in March 2020, the lowest in the twenty-first century, it...
According to the Kommersant daily, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to explore building two nuclear power facilities on the Black Sea coast. According to the Russian president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Erdogan and Putin met last week and discussed the building of a nuclear...
Gas transit through Ukraine to Hungary resumed after a temporary suspension, the Hungarian operator of the gas transmission system FGSZ said, Izvestia reported. According to the operator, the gas flow through the "Beregovo" point on the border with Ukraine is currently 2.134 million cubic meters per hour, while earlier on...
According to figures provided by the Central Dispatching Department of the Fuel Energy Complex, Russia's oil exports decreased by 5.6 percent year on year to 166.2 million tonnes in January-September 2021, TASS reports. As a result of Russia's participation in the OPEC+ pact to limit oil output, its supplies overseas...
Russian government-controlled Gazprom has decreased transit gas deliveries across Poland and Ukraine, confirming industry experts' worst fears and raising new concerns that the company has no intention of boosting supply to Europe as winter is nearing, Upstream Online reports. According to German operator Gascade, hourly supplies of Russian gas over...
The Senator from the Perm Territory, Aleksey Pushkov explained what motivated European authorities to approve the decision to start deliveries of Russian gas to Hungary, bypassing Ukraine, Izvestia writes. “In the modern world, a medium-sized regional topic cannot be in the spotlight for a long time. We are tired of...
Despite Europe's strong demand for coal, Russian firms are unable to rapidly expand supply. This is hindered by infrastructure constraints, the presence of existing contracts, the difficulty to quickly expand output owing to contractor capacity shortages, and coal miners' desire to sell more to Asia, where the price is...
Faced with a severe energy deficit, China requested an increase in supplies from Russia. Inter RAO sells about 3 billion kWh from Russia's Far East to China each year. According to Kommersant's interviews with specialists, Russia may provide an extra 2 billion kWh by the end of the year....