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Astana. An online platform for monitoring, reporting and verifying emission sources and greenhouse gases (GHG) was officially launched today by the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the World Bank. The platform is an essential element of the National Emissions ...

Baku. Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) joined Albanian Ministry of Tourism and Environment in cleaning the debris along the Osumi River, said a message from TAP AG consortium. The initiative also included deepening the river bed. “TAP provided excavators and trucks for the cleaning and ...

Power companies’ approach to booking space on U. S. natural gas pipelines is becoming the latest flash point in the debate over whether to build more of the links in the historically constrained Northeast. The Environmental Defense fund said in a report Wednesday that New England ...

Moscow. Construction of the environment protection fleet amounting to 3. 1 bln rubles ($53. 1 mln) after 2021 is included into the Arctic socioeconomic development program, Russian Minister of Natural Resources said on Monday. "Construction of the environment protection fleet for ...

Moscow. The main requirements that environment specialists set when it comes to oil spills is to make companies invest into pipe replacement. According to what Vladimir Chuprov, the head of Greenpeace Russia Energy Department, told the Oil and Gas Information Agency. Accidents with oil ...

London. Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to spend as much as $1 billion a year on its New Energies division as the transition toward renewable power and electric cars accelerates. This was stated Shell CEO Ben Van Beurden. “In some parts of the world we are beginning to see battery electric ...

Singapore. Oil prices recovered some losses on Monday after a 3 percent fall in the previous session, but markets remain under pressure from high drilling activity in the United States and ample supplies from producer club OPEC. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, ...

Moscow. Oil prices fell more than 2 percent on Friday after data showed U. S. production rose last week just as OPEC exports hit a 2017 high, casting doubt on efforts by producers to curb oversupply. Global benchmark Brent futures were down $1. 07, or 2. 2 percent, at $47. 04 a barrel at 0929 ...

Moscow. LUKOIL was the first oil company in Russia to endorse, with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the “Zero Routine Flaring by 2030” initiative. This was stated LUKOIL. Announced by the World Bank in April of 2015, it aimed to join ...

Helsinki. Russia’s support is crucial in implementing the Paris climate agreement, especially in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal, Finnish Minister of Housing, Energy and Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen told TASS on Wednesday. "It is certainly important as Russia ...

Baku. A grant agreement has been signed for the feasibility study needed for the planned Eastring gas pipeline project. European Union’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) and Slovakian Eustream gas transmission system operator have signed an agreement allowing Eustream to ...

Moscow. SPGC head said the volume of burned flare gas in the country has dropped from 139 to 33 million cubic meters indicating a 76. 3-percent decline. Speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the first green flare of the first South Pars refinery complex, Managing Director of South Pars Gas ...

Murmansk. The Russian icebreaker Novorossiysk has sailed from the port of Murmansk to the Franz Josef Land Archipelago as part of the Arctic cleanup campaign, the port’s press service said on Tuesday. The icebreaker will carry 28 expedition members and some 9 tonnes of cargo and ...

Anchorage, USA. An oil well leaking natural gas on Alaska's North Slope was successfully plugged by pumping saltwater into the well, according to private and government responders. The state Department on Environmental Conservation on Monday said the well operated by BP Exploration ...

Moscow. Epoxy, silicate and enamel coatings, reinforced polymeric and fiberglass materials will be applied on over 65% of LUKOIL’s modernized and new pipelines at potentially hazardous areas in 2017 to enhance corrosion resistance of pipes. Their service life will be extended by means of ...

Moscow. LUKOIL has released a booklet timed to coincide with the Year of Ecology in Russia. It covers basic principles behind the company’s policy on efficient use of natural resources and industrial safety. The booklet also highlights LUKOIL’s achievements and objectives ...