The last notable amount of highly enriched uranium in Turkey has been withdrawn and shipped back to the United States as part of Washington’s global effort to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear material, the National Nuclear Security Administration said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 15, 2009).
To remove the final 11.9 pounds of uranium from Turkey, the [...]
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PRAGUE (Dow Jones)–Czech power utility CEZ AS (BAACEZ.PR) and Slovak state-owned Nuclear and Decommissioning Company, or Javys, Friday signed a contract to form a joint venture to build a new nuclear power plant in Slovakia.
The new plant is expected to have a generating capacity of up to 1,600 megawatts and will be located 60 [...]
ANKARA, Jan 19 - Russia’s Atomstroiexport, the only bidder in a tender to build Turkey’s first nuclear plant, has revised its bid after initially offering to sell power at three times the current rate, Turkey’s Energy Minister said.
Energy Minister Himli Guler told reporters on Monday that state power company Tetas was preparing a report on [...]
Ukraine and Russia said the supply of natural gas to Europe was completely shut off Wednesday, but each side blamed the other for the cut-off, which comes as Europe faces a wave of freezing temperatures.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian state-run gas company, Naftogaz Ukrainy, told CNN that Russian gas giant Gazprom had turned off all [...]
Reuters
Russia accused Ukraine of stealing gas destined for the rest of Europe today, a day after cutting supplies to its neighbour in a contract dispute.
The volumes Russian export monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said Ukraine was siphoning off were small, but the accusation suggested Moscow was in no mood for compromise in a re-run of a 2006 [...]
By Matthew Green in Lagos
Nigeria has been forced to cut exports of liquefied natural gas, a key source of energy for Europe, after Royal Dutch Shell closed a key facility in the Niger Delta to repair damage caused by thieves.
Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), which says it delivers about 10 per cent of all world [...]
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish regional government will export crude oil for the first time by early next year, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday.
Ashti Hawrami, the natural resources minister in the Kurdistan region, said an initial 100,000 barrels per day of crude oil from two northern Iraqi fields would be sent through a pipeline [...]
Kurdish separatist group claims responsibility for blast
Firefighters in southeast Turkey on Sunday extinguished a fire on a section of oil pipeline that had been set ablaze by an explosion.
The bomb attack on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline Friday night halted oil exports from Iraq through Turkey.
The separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known by its Kurdish initials PKK, [...]
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Oil Ministry says oil exports in October increased to 52.8 million barrels, up by 3.5 million barrels from the previous month.
The ministry says revenues in October were $3.11 billion, down $1.1 billion from the previous month because of the sharp drop in oil prices. Iraqi oil was purchased by 22 international oil [...]
