SOCAR has announced the discovery of a huge gas field Umid in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev said.

• November 26, 2010

Kyiv-based Power-Trade Ltd., part of the largest Ukrainian private energy company DTEK, expects to start commercial supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Moldova from the second quarter of 2011, Power-Trade director Andriy Favorov has said.

• November 24, 2010

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin on Monday, exchanging views on Sino-Russian bilateral energy cooperation and reaching consensus on further development.

• November 23, 2010

The Georgian government has said it does not plan to sell a strategic pipeline that brings Russian natural gas to Armenia through its territory

• November 22, 2010

Turkmenistan has won support from its Caspian neighbours to lay a pipeline under the sea and become a major gas supplier to Europe, a senior official said, boosting plans for the EU-backed Nabucco project.

• November 20, 2010

Azerbaijan and Iran have signed an energy cooperation deal prior to the start of the third Caspian Summit, according to media reports Thursday.

• November 19, 2010

OTCOB-listed oil and gas exploration and development firm International Oil and Gas Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uzbek state oil and gas company, Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company.

• November 19, 2010

The large fountain statue of 10 horses rises in the Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad yesterday. The Central Asian nation, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy supplies and is pushing to revive plans to build a pipeline to deliver gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• November 18, 2010