Russia

Nuclear Power Plant

Nigeria, Russia Plan Deal On Nuclear Power Projects

Nigerian government officials have met with their counterparts from Russia in preparation for a deal that would see the country site some nuclear power projects…

Oil Field

Russians Decide Against Selling Iraqi Oilfield to China

Russia’s Lukoil PJSC is retracting its decision to sell its stake in West Qurna-2 field in the south to Chinese companies.

Nuclear Power Plant

Equipment Manufacture Starts for Egypt Nuclear Project

Egypt’s Electricity & Renewable Energy Minister Mohammed Shaker has travelled to Russia to attend a ceremony to mark the beginning of the manufacture of equipm…

Nuclear Power Plant

Video: Russia Reveals INSANE Plans for Nuclear Plants On Mars

Stay tuned for the story about a section of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency moving forward with plans to develop the first and potentially largest nuclear powe…

Oil & Gas Trade

Russia’s Energy Ministry Proposes Ban on Gasoline Export

Russia’s energy ministry said on Friday it filed a proposal for the government to start a procedure for a ban on gasoline exports.

Market Analysis

Russia Plans to Become One of the Biggest Players in Hydrogen Production

The global drive towards decarbonization is shifting Russian policy on renewable energy.

Oil Pipeline

OMV: Nord Stream 2 Could Start Shipping Gas This Year

The Russia-led Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline could begin shipping gas as soon as this year, one of the western investors in the project

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Assembles Upper Half-Shell of the Reactor for Tianwan 7

Russia’s AEM-Technologies has assembled the upper half-shell of the reactor for unit 7 of the Tianwan NPP in China

Crude Oil

Russia Was World’s Second-Largest Oil Producer In H1 2021

Russia was the world’s second-largest producer in the first five months of this year after the United States, data from Rosstat, the state statistics bureau, h…

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia Commits to Further Floating NPPs

The companies said that they would conclude a long-term take-or-pay contract for the electricity by April 2022.

Nuclear Power Plant

Russia’s Kola NPP Tests New Fuel and Prepares for Hydrogen Production

Russian third-generation nuclear fuel RK-3 for VVER-440 reactors has completed a fifth irradiation cycle at unit 4 of the Kola NPP in the Murmansk Region

Rosatom

Rosatom and GDK Baimskaya LLC Sign Agreement to Jointly Supply Energy to Baimsky Plant

Rosatom and GDK Baimskaya LLC have signed an agreement to jointly implement a project to supply power to the Baimsky mining and processing plant, which is locat…

Crude Oil

Russia Weighs Gasoline Export Ban

Russia is ready to introduce a ban on gasoline exports as soon as next week amid record-high wholesale prices on the exchange.

SMR

Plans Progress for SMR in Russia’s Yakutia

The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East plans to create a working group for the construction of a small nuclear power plant in Yakutia.

Oil Pipeline

U.S., Germany Strike a Deal to Allow Completion of Controversial Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline

The United States and Germany reached an agreement to allow completion of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a thorny, long-standing point of contention be…