European Union leaders are holding their first ever energy summit today (4 February) but the policy agenda looks likely to take a backseat to pressing issues such as Egypt and the eurozone debt crisis.

• Date: 04.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from euractiv.com

President Barack Obama signed ratification documents for America's new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia on Wednesday, clearing the way for the two powers to put the landmark accord into effect.

• Date: 03.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from cnn.com

Greece expects that Azerbaijan will become a major gas supplier, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis said today in Baku during the third meeting of an Azerbaijani-Greek intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

• Date: 02.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Ministry of Economic Regulation (MER) of Kyrgyzstan intends to attract Turkish businessmen to develop the mining sector, as the head of the investment policy of MER Kubat Murzaev stated at a joint Kyrgyz-Turkish Business Forum.

• Date: 01.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from 24.kg

Turkey aspires to possess at least 20 nuclear reactors operating in the country by 2030, a key official from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has said.

• Date: 01.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from todayszaman.com

Russian experts confirmed during a presentation of the Kaliningrad nuclear power plant project in Riga yesterday that the project will have no detrimental effect on the environment.

• Date: 29.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 29.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in the country, is to join the national power grid in early April, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi said

• Date: 29.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 29.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from ce.cn

The Turkish Petroleum International Company Ltd. (TPIC), an affiliate of the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), is holding talks with Kyrgyz government officials to supply the jet fuel needed by American corps based in the country, the company’s president, Mithat Cansız, has said.

• Date: 28.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from todayszaman.com