Gazprom has confirmed its interest in buying a combined cycle generation plants in Europe despite competition from cheap coal.

• Date: 26.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from powerengineeringint.com

President Vladimir Putin is expected to discuss ways to broaden bilateral ties and cooperation in the nuclear energy sector with South African President Jacob Zuma during his visit to Durban.

• Date: 26.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from rbth.ru

Gazprom has confirmed its interest in buying a combined cycle generation plants in Europe despite competition from cheap coal.

• Date: 25.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from powerengineeringint.com

CYPRUS’S finance minister pleaded with Russia for help on Wednesday to avert a financial meltdown after the island's parliament rejected the terms of a European bailout, raising the spectre of a looming default and bank crash.

• Date: 20.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 20.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from independent.ie

On February 12, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych paid a three-day visit to gas-rich Turkmenistan to sign a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation and reiterate Kyiv’s interest in resuming direct imports of the Central Asian country’s natural gas, which were suspended in 2006 (Interfax-Ukraine, February 14).

• Date: 20.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 20.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from jamestown.org

Sergei Shoigu, a former long-time emergency situations minister (MChS) and a former Moscow region governor is a well-known and popular figure in Russia—according to recent independent Leveda-Tsentr polls, he is at present more popular than Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

• Date: 15.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 15.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

The Ministry of Energy & Coal Industry of Ukraine informs that Stavitsky was received by First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyubov, met with Industry & Energy Minister Natig Aliev, participated in a meeting with involvement of representatives of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and Azerenerji OJSC.

• Date: 13.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 13.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from abc.az

Jihadi groups in Syria could have been behind last month’s attempted assassination of opposition leaders at a Turkish border crossing, according to a leading analyst.

• Date: 13.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 13.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from guardian.co.uk