Russia

Nuclear Reactor

Hydraulic Tests Performed on VVER-TOI Reactor Vessel

A crane with a lifting capacity of 600 tons was used to install the 11-metre high VVER-TOI reactor vessel in position inside a special support ring.

Hydropower Plant

Power Transformers being Replaced at En+ Group’s Krasnoyarsk Project

The first of seven new power transformers at the Krasnoyarsk hydropower plant in Russia is being prepared for commissioning, En+ Group has announced.

Russian Federation

NEXT 75 Conference Searches for Answers to the Challenges of the Future

On December 16, Sochi (Russia) will host the NEXT 75 international conference dedicated to global issues and challenges, which humanity is facing today.

Russian Federation

Keel of Fifth Project 22220 Icebreaker Laid in St. Petersburg

On December 16, the keel for the fifth (fourth serial) Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker Chukotka was laid at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg.

Oil Pipeline

Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline Clearly Beneficial for Europe & WILL BE Completed – Putin

That could hike prices for households and make Germany’s economy less competitive, said Putin.

Oil Pipeline

Pakistan to Start Building LNG Pipeline with Russia in July 2021

Pakistan will start building a 1,100-kilometre pipeline with Russia in July 2021 that will allow the South Asian nation to operate more liquefied natural gas (L…

Oil Pipeline

U.S. Throws Weight Behind Construction of EastMed Gas Pipeline

Greece aims to play an important role in helping Europe diversify its energy resources away from Russia, an objective strongly supported by Washington

LNG

Russia’s Novatek and Siemens Energy ink Deal to Decarbonise LNG Production

As part of the Agreement signed on December 10, Novatek and Siemens Energy will commence implementing a project to replace fuel natural gas used in the producti…

Oil & Gas Trade

Putin: Russia Reduces Its Dependence On Oil

Russia is successfully weaning itself off oil revenues, President Vladimir Putin said today during an annual end-of-the-year news conference, as quoted by RT.

LNG

Video: Germany Begins Constructing Its First Liquified Natural Gas Terminal

Liquified Natural Gas or LNG is not very popular in Germany yet, but the US is against completing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia, so Germany may have to…

Oil & Gas Trade

Russia Approves Sinopec's Participation in Huge Petrochemical Project

The Russian government has approved participation of China's Sinopec company in a large-scale petrochemical project, the government said in a statement on Tuesd…

Nuclear Fuel

TVEL Loads New Design of Fuel into Paks Unit 3

TVEL, the nuclear fuel manufacturer subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom, has loaded a batch of fresh fuel, including 18 fuel bundles of its new modification, into un…

Oil Pipeline

Second Russian Pipelayer Arrives at Nord Stream 2 Construction Site

A Russian pipe-laying vessel Fortuna has arrived at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea

Nuclear waste

Hot Testing Continues at Chernobyl Used Fuel Storage

As of 1 December, 186 used fuel assemblies have been transported from the old used nuclear fuel storage facility to the Interim Storage Facility 2 at the Cherno…

Oil Price

OPEC+ Working on Compromise for 2021 Oil Policy

The OPEC, Russia and their allies, a group known as OPEC+, had been widely expected to extend existing oil cuts of 7.7 million barrels per day (bpd).