The Atyrau Oil Refinery in Kazakhstan has signed a loan agreement with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ to construct an oil-deep processing plant, KazMunaiGas said on Wednesday.

• August 8, 2012

“The two countries’ officials have decided to help people in Islamic country of Pakistan be provided with Iranian gas as soon as possible,” Larijani told his Pakistani counterpart Nayer Hossein Bokhari.

• August 4, 2012

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta met his Israeli counterpart on Wednesday just days after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited Jerusalem and pledged to support any measures to keep Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.

• August 1, 2012

Iran expects to hold more talks with world powers on its nuclear program following an inconclusive round of negotiations in Istanbul earlier this month, its foreign minister said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

• July 30, 2012

The U.S. Department of State hosted Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov and other representatives from the Azerbaijani government for the U.S. –Azerbaijan Security Dialogue, which met today in Washington, D.C., APA reports.
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro led the U.S. delegation, which included participation from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy William Bryan, and other senior U.S. Government officials.

• July 25, 2012

BP's latest annual "Statistical Review of World Energy" has revealed Turkmenistan's proven gas reserves as even bigger than previously assessed. It appraises Turkmenistan's proven reserves at 24.3 trillion cubic meters as of the end of 2011, almost double the 13.4 trillion cubic meters noted a year earlier, and itself an increase over the previously reported nine trillion cubic meters in proven reserves. On the current assessment, Turkmenistan holds 11.7% of the world’s proven natural gas reserves.

• July 24, 2012

Talks between experts from Iran and the six world powers on the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program ended without significant progress in the Turkish city of Istanbul early Wednesday, with the participants agreeing to hold further meetings on the issue as agreed earlier, according to the European Union.

• July 24, 2012

Turkmenistan has expressed readiness to increase export of electricity and natural gas to its southwestern neighboring state, Iran.

• July 21, 2012