Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin on Monday, exchanging views on Sino-Russian bilateral energy cooperation and reaching consensus on further development.

• November 23, 2010

The Georgian government has said it does not plan to sell a strategic pipeline that brings Russian natural gas to Armenia through its territory

• November 22, 2010

Turkmenistan has won support from its Caspian neighbours to lay a pipeline under the sea and become a major gas supplier to Europe, a senior official said, boosting plans for the EU-backed Nabucco project.

• November 20, 2010

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

OTCOB-listed oil and gas exploration and development firm International Oil and Gas Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uzbek state oil and gas company, Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company.

• November 19, 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

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