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

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

Bulgaria and Russia clashed Monday over the final cost of a planned nuclear power plant in northern Bulgaria, the energy ministry said after talks over the weekend.

• November 16, 2010

Kazakhstan has tightened control over safety of oil operations in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, Emergency Minister Vladimir Bozhko said

• November 16, 2010

The Russian energy giant Gazprom has joined a growing list of companies that plan to drill for oil in the waters off Cuba, close to the United States but out of reach of its safety regulators.

• November 16, 2010