Energy Headlines
12/04/2007
Ukraine turns to Biodiesel
The first biodiesel factory has started to work in the Ternopol oblast. But there is lack of corresponding regulations for fuel sale in Ukraine. Factory has been opened in Vasilkovka village Gusyatinskiy... More...
11/04/2007
Commission gives its support to a pipeline which will limit oil pollution risks in Black and Mediterranean seas
Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs signed today in Zagreb a ministerial declaration on next steps to build a pipeline which will bring oil directly from the Black sea to the Central European markets and... More...
03/04/2007
Southeast European Oil Pipeline Deal Signed
Five southeastern European countries have agreed to start work on a 1,400-kilometer Pan-European Oil Pipeline (PEOP), estimated to cost between $2 billion and $3.5 billion. More...
02/04/2007
First commercial scale concentrating solar power plant in Europe inaugurated in Spain
The Southern Spanish city of Seville will be host to the first commercial concentrating solar power plant in Europe. The 11 MW plant inaugurated today and partly financed with European Union funds, has been designed to produce 23 GWh of electricity a year - enough to supply a population of 10.000. This production of solar electricity avoids the emission of about 16.000 tonnes of CO2 each year. More...
27/03/2007
Ukraine intends to complete Odesa-Brody oil pipeline to Plotsk
Ukraine intends to complete Odesa-Brody oil pipeline to Plotsk. Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych told journalists after his meeting with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso More...
20/03/2007
Iranian President and his Armenian counterpart formally inaugurated a pipeline that will pump Iranian natural gas to Armenia
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart, Robert Kocharian, today formally inaugurated a pipeline that will pump Iranian natural gas to Armenia, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported... More...
16/03/2007
Russia, Greece and Bulgaria give green light for Brurgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline
Russian President Putin, GreekPremier Costas Karamanlis and Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev signed an interstate agreement in Athens on March 15 on construction of a 280-kilometer oil pipeline that will link the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas with the Greek oil terminal at Alexandroupolis. More...
14/03/2007
First foreign-owned refinery opens in Turkmenistan
Dragon Oil has opened the first foreign-owned refinery in Turkmenistan More...
13/03/2007
Historical agreement on climate protection
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel has made a breakthrough in Brussels on the issue of climate protection. The European Union (EU) has undertaken to increase the use of renewable energy to 20% by 2020. More...
09/03/2007
Ukraine, Poland plan five-nation summit on Caspian oil
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski told journalists after their talks in Plock, Poland, on March 7 that they are planning to hold an energy summit in May with the participation of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Georgia More...
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