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

The term of submission of binding proposals of strategic investors into Visaginas nuclear power plant (VNPP) expired on November 10, 2010; the Concession Tender Commission, which has been delegated to organize a tender for selection of the strategic investor, has analyzed the related documents, Lithuanian Ministry of Energy was quoted by The Lithuania Tribune.

• November 15, 2010

25-years after the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, Federated Farmers is hailing moves to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

• November 15, 2010

New Zealand will launch talks on a free trade pact with Russia and its customs partners Belarus and Kazakhstan early next year, Prime Minister John Key said Sunday.

• November 15, 2010