Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou has said that 130 trillion rials (some $10.6 billion) is needed to complete 270 semi-finished projects in the fields of dam and power plant building, water and wastewater treatment.

• September 24, 2012

Ukraine will provide reliable energy transit to the European Union, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry quoted Minister Yuriy Boiko. The minister gave the assurances at the Brussels meeting with European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Friday, September 21. Boiko stressed that Ukraine had created every condition for the uninterrupted transit of Russian gas to Europe.

• September 24, 2012

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a resolution that reaffirms U.S. efforts to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, and says containment of a nuclear-capable Iran is not an option.

• September 22, 2012

Uzbekistan and South Korea have signed a series of co-operation agreements in the areas of energy and industry.

• September 22, 2012

Iran's nuclear issue can only be resolved through political and diplomatic tools, Russia Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich said.

• September 21, 2012

Pakistan has decided to import one-thousand megawatt electricity from Turkmenistan in order to overcome the current power outage.

• September 19, 2012

Foreign ministers of EU 3 + 3 planning to meet next week at UN to assess situation, figure out way to break standstill in negotiations over Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

• September 19, 2012

EU foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton is to hold talks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, in a bid to end the stand-off over the Iranian nuclear programme.

• September 18, 2012