Azerbaijan and Iran have signed an energy cooperation deal prior to the start of the third Caspian Summit, according to media reports Thursday.

• November 19, 2010

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has stated that he will extend official invitations to hold ministerial-level meetings between Syria, Turkey, and Bulgaria in the coming days. He said that this is in order to discuss cooperation between the three states in the fields of energy, natural gas, and transportation.

• November 18, 2010

The foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden accused Ukraine on Wednesday of dragging its heels on urgently needed reforms.

• November 18, 2010

India's central bank governor has warned that the country needs a "quantum step" in investment to achieve the ambitious double-digit economic growth rate forecast by Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

• November 18, 2010

The large fountain statue of 10 horses rises in the Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad yesterday. The Central Asian nation, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy supplies and is pushing to revive plans to build a pipeline to deliver gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• November 18, 2010

Britain's HSBC bank was chosen Tuesday to advise Bulgaria on restructuring and financing its Belene nuclear power plant project in the north of the country, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said.

• November 17, 2010

South Korea's state energy firm said Wednesday it was seeking to build a nuclear reactor in Lithuania, in the country's latest move to export its atomic expertise.

• November 17, 2010

The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$78 million loan for the Kazakhstan Alma Electricity Transmission Project to the Republic of Kazakhstan to improve the reliability and quality of electricity supply to consumers in the Almaty region

• November 17, 2010