Following a US report about Afghanistan's valuable mineral resources, the Afghan government is gearing up to seek foreign investment and a public bid to extract these minerals is expected to start later this year.

• Date: 17.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from Deutsche Welle

China announced in late April the sale of two nuclear reactors to Pakistan. This deal is clearly against the guidelines of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and the spirit if not the letter of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)

• Date: 15.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from atimes.com

China and Kazakhstan have agreed to build and finance a gas pipeline and deepen cooperation in atomic energy, giving Beijing greater access to Astana's vast uranium resources.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from chennaionline.com

Iran has formally signed a $7.6-billion cross-border pipeline deal to supply 750 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to Pakistan from mid-2014, ignoring India that was part of the original plan conceived in the 1990s.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from IndiaTimes

Viewed from Washington, Turkey and Iran are strange bedfellows. One is a NATO member with a Constitution that mandates secularism, and the other, an Islamic republic whose nuclear program has been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States in recent years.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from wn.com

China and Kazakhstan have signed a deal to build and finance a natural gas pipeline and deepen their cooperation on nuclear energy, extending the two countries' ties on resources.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Iran finalised a $7bn “peace pipeline” deal yesterday to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, Iran’s state television reported.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from thepeninsulaqatar.com

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

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from bbc.co.uk