Russia

Nuclear Equipment

Russia Starts Making Major Components for Xudabao Units

Russia's Atommash has begun the manufacture of major components for the first of two VVER-1200 reactors to be constructed at the Xudabao site in China's Liaonin…

Nuclear Reactor

Construction Licence Issued for Russia's BREST Reactor

It will be the world's first experimental demonstration power unit featuring a lead-cooled fast neutron reactor.

Energy Transition

Rosneft, BP Forge Renewables Alliance

Russian, UK oil giants target green power projects as part of strategic collaboration

LNG

Russia's Rosneft Looks to Arctic to Ramp up LNG Output

The projects were considered as part of its LNG strategy at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak last month

Solar Cell

Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell with Transition Metal Carbides Achieves 19.2% Efficiency

A Russian-Italian research group has developed a two-dimensional transition metal carbide, known as MXenes, to collect photocurrent in perovskite cells.

Nuclear Power Plant

Major Overhaul of Russia’s Balakovo 4 Completed

Storage pool racks have been replaced at unit 4 of Russia’s Balakovo NPP, after many years of work, the plant announced on 27 January.

Nuclear Power Plant

Bushehr Nuclear Plant Expansion Continues

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference on 26 January that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif the constru…

Wind Power Project

VetroSGC-2 JSC and Gazprombank Close Finance Deal for Wind Farm

VetroSGC-2 JSC, a project company of nuclear power firm Rosatom, and Gazprombank have completed a financing deal for a wind power project in Russia.

Crude Oil

Only 36% Of Russia’s Oil Reserves Are Profitable

Only 36 percent of Russia's recoverable crude oil reserves can turn a profit in the current market, Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said in an article for …

Oil Exploration

Russia’s Gazprom and LUKOIL Mull JV for Developing Fields in Nenets Area

The Vaneyvisskoye and Layavozhskoye fields have the aggregate recoverable reserves of 27.4 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons and 225.3 bcm of natural gas

Coal Trade

Morocco Relying more Heavily on Russian Coal

Morocco's reliance on Russian coal imports increased in the first 11 months of 2020, as receipts from other sources fell sharply.

Nuclear Power Plant

Atommash Begins to Manufacture RPV Russia’s Kursk-II-2

Atommash, the Volgodonsk branch of Russia’s AEM-Technologies has started manufacturing the reactor pressure vessel for unit 2 of the Kursk-II nuclear power pla…

Nuclear Power Plant

Bulgarian Cabinet Approves Plan for New Unit at Kozloduy

The Bulgarian Council of Ministers, at a meeting on 20 January, approved plans presented by the Minister of Energy to construct a seventh unit at the Kozloduy n…

Oil Price

Price Dispute Shrinks Russia Oil Pipeline Exports

Exports of Russian Urals oil via the Druzhba pipeline have dropped this month as sellers opt for the sea route instead, following disagreements over pricing wit…

Thermal Plant

Russia's Silovye Mashiny eyes overhaul of Serbian thermal power plant

Russian company Silovye Mashiny has expressed interest in participating in a project for the overhaul of units A1 and A2 of Nikola Tesla A thermal power plant i…