Iran has no plans yet to cut oil exports to India over a payment dispute, the semi-official Mehr news agency on Friday quoted an oil official as saying.

• Date: 22.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Top nuclear envoys from rivals North and South Korea agreed Friday to work toward a resumption of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a significant breakthrough after more than a year of confrontation and escalating threats that have put the region on edge.

• Date: 22.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Russia is trying new tactics by taking Bulgaria to court in a bid to speed up construction of the Belene nuclear power plant, the first in the EU that is fully reliant on Russian technology. Dnevnik, EurActiv's partner in Bulgaria

• Date: 22.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from euractiv.com

Russian company M/s INTER RAO UES, Has expressed its interest to invest in the small hydropower, coal power generation projects and to develop transmission lines in Pakistan. A delegation of the company led by Maxim Sergeev, called on Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar on Wednesday to discuss the investment opportunities in the power sector in Pakistan.

• Date: 21.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from brecorder.com

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.

• Date: 21.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov called on Wednesday for significant restrictions of Ukraine's foreign debt level amid current economic instability.

• Date: 21.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2011  |  Markets  |  from rian.ru

Ukraine began updating its Soviet-era gas transportation system, with the first stage being the reconstruction of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod main pipeline from Russia. At the ceremony, which took place near Bohuslav in the Kiev region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that most parts of the natural gas delivered from Russia to Europe goes through Ukraine and that there was a chance for the transit country to offer gas-pipeline advantages to its Russian and European partners.

• Date: 20.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from neurope.eu

Belarus faces a desperate financial situation that is only likely to get worse. President Alexander Lukashenko thinks he knows why: his people don't work hard enough. He's using some old-fashioned ways of fixing that.

• Date: 20.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.07.2011  |  Markets  |  from dw-world.de