Turkmenistan and China have signed a deal making good on Turkmenistan President Gurbanbuly Berdimuhamedow's earlier promise to increase his country's natural gas shipments to China to 65 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y).

• June 14, 2012

The construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) has increased the interest of Lithuanian investors in Ostrovets District of Belarus, Chairman of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee Adam Kovalko said at the meeting with Lithuanian reporters on 13 June, reports law.by.

• June 14, 2012

The United States is seeing a dramatic surge in oil and gas production and could overtake the world's biggest producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, in another decade, a US official said here Tuesday.

• June 13, 2012

Constructing a widespread network of pipelines for natural resources in Turkmenistan is of great national interest, the country's president said.

• June 11, 2012

The Barack Obama administration is likely to open North America's doors to India for its energy needs as it pushes New Delhi to reduce its energy dependence on "nuclear armed" Iran. This hydrocarbon sop for India - oil, cooking and shale gas - is scheduled to figure in the third round of Indo-US strategic dialogue in Washington on June 13.

• June 11, 2012

Iran hopes that the final nuclear agreement for giving permission to IAEA inspectors (to visit Parchin military complex) will be signed, Iran Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh told ISNA.

• June 9, 2012

Afghanistan: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will grant Afghanistan observer status and accept Turkey as a dialogue partner, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on 7 June.

• June 9, 2012

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart on Thursday that Moscow supports Tehran's atomic program as long as it is "peaceful."

• June 7, 2012