Ukraine aims to attract private investment in government-run coal mines to increase production, Deputy Coal and Energy Minister Ihor Popovych said. The government has drawn up investment plans for state mines in 2011 envisaging 5.5 billion hryvnia ($691 million) of spending, Popovych said in an interview published today by official government newspaper Uryadovyi Kurier.

• February 16, 2011

Russia is perplexed as to whether to keep its efforts for the construction of the second Bulgarian nuclear power plant "Belene" or to renounce the deal and seek penalty payments from Bulgaria

• February 15, 2011

Turkmenistan is seeking a price linked fuel oil or naphtha for the natural gas it plans to sell to India through a USD 7.6 billion pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• February 15, 2011

“China has an extraordinary demand for high-quality American goods and services,” said Ken Rogers, Automation Alley executive director.

• February 14, 2011

A senior Iranian oil official has announced that the country is to export 1.5 million litres of petrol and diesel per day to Armenia.

• February 14, 2011

Lithuania still has all the potential to have a new nuclear power plant in 2020, Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas is convinced.

• February 12, 2011

Iranian ambassador to Kazakhstan Gurban Seyfi met with the Kazakh Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Gulsara Abdykalikova. At the meeting the ambassador expressed his country's willingness to send labor force to Kazakhstan, Iranian MEHR news agency reported.

• February 12, 2011

Lithuania hopes for Azerbaijan in solving problems with providing country with gas, the Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Irena Degutene said in Baku

• February 11, 2011