EU chair Poland plans to start talks between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in September on the supply of Turkmen gas to the Nabucco pipeline project.

• July 26, 2011

At the end of the second annual Indo-U.S. Strategic Dialogue held in New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear that there were "issues" that had to be resolved by India and the United States in the civil nuclear field.

• July 25, 2011

Hong Kong shares opened lower in line with downbeat regional markets Monday after the U.S. government failed to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling over the weekend, with coal and other energy stocks leading the decline.

• July 25, 2011

Top nuclear envoys from rivals North and South Korea agreed Friday to work toward a resumption of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a significant breakthrough after more than a year of confrontation and escalating threats that have put the region on edge.

• July 22, 2011

Iran has no plans yet to cut oil exports to India over a payment dispute, the semi-official Mehr news agency on Friday quoted an oil official as saying.

• July 22, 2011

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.

• July 21, 2011

Russian company M/s INTER RAO UES, Has expressed its interest to invest in the small hydropower, coal power generation projects and to develop transmission lines in Pakistan. A delegation of the company led by Maxim Sergeev, called on Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar on Wednesday to discuss the investment opportunities in the power sector in Pakistan.

• July 21, 2011

The annual rate of growth has often surpassed double digits and the natural consequence is that its fuel consumption has also risen dramatically. Energy intensive heavy industry and the massive infrastructure construction have not only produced huge demand for steel, cement and aluminum but also for oil equivalents

• July 20, 2011