India is running an energy deficit and may consider rejoining a natural gas pipeline project from Iran, a senior diplomat said.

• April 9, 2012

"We have agreed with Iran to launch a new round of talks in Istanbul on 14 April," said Michael Mann, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. "We are very pleased that these talks, which will address the international community´s concerns on the Iranian nuclear programme, are going ahead after more than one year since we last met," Mann said in a statement.

• April 9, 2012

Turkey is negotiating with three countries on three different models to build nuclear power plants, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz, Anatolia agency reports on Tuesday.

• April 9, 2012

Russian gas giant Gazprom has submitted a preliminary bid to purchase the Greek gas corporation DEPA, deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev said Saturday.

• April 7, 2012

Russia’s level of investment is, and has been for the past decade, far closer to the levels of developed, wealthy countries than to China‘s. I don’t find this to be particularly alarming or surprising for three reasons. First, because Russian investment collapsed so catastrophically during the 1990′s the current levels are actually an improvement: as you can see from that chart, Russian investment has substantially increased from the depths it reached in 1999 and has done so during a time that overall GDP has grown dramatically (the actual expenditures on investment have thus exploded).

• April 7, 2012

President Barack Obama has told Iran the United States would accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear programme if the Islamic state can prove it is not seeking atomic weapons, the Washington Post said Friday. Obama sent such a message to Tehran via Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who delivered it to Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei last week, said the newspaper's foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius.

• April 7, 2012

Charge d'Affaires of Kazakhstan to Georgia Adil Tursunov and Energy and Natural Resources Minister of Georgia Alexander Khetaguri discussed transit of Kazakh hydrocarbons through Georgia, as well as KazTransGas - Tbilisi Company's activity at a meeting in Tbilisi.

• April 6, 2012

Ashgabat,  Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Afghan Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani at meeting in Ashgabat said there is considerable international resonance and interest of many countries and companies willing to participate in largest transnational Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India TAPI gas pipeline project implementation, Turkmen government said Thursday, Trend news agency reported.

• April 5, 2012