The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has put offshore drilling operations in the Caspian Sea under fresh scrutiny.

• June 9, 2010

Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a deal on Monday that will provide 11 billion cubic meters (388 billion cubic feet) of Azeri natural gas a year to Turkey beginning as early as 2016

• June 8, 2010

President Barack Obama promised in a letter released on Monday to tackle "serious issues" straining relations with Azerbaijan, an important link in Afghan supply lines and energy export routes to the West.

• June 8, 2010

Iran hopes to finalise a deal this week for a much-delayed pipeline to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, an energy official said on Sunday.

• June 7, 2010

Tariffs for gas will rise 15 percent in Russia in 2011, while thermal heating tariffs will rise 12 to 14 percent, Deputy Economy Development Minister Andrey Klepach said on May 31.

• June 3, 2010

By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow Russia pumps oil from Kazakhstan to a Black Sea port for export A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders,

• June 3, 2010

A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders, including those in Central Asia.

• June 3, 2010

To increase the ease of business in the Baltic Sea region and the three Baltic states, the bottlenecks in transport and energy need to be solved, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday morning.

• June 3, 2010