Viewed from Washington, Turkey and Iran are strange bedfellows. One is a NATO member with a Constitution that mandates secularism, and the other, an Islamic republic whose nuclear program has been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States in recent years.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from wn.com

China and Kazakhstan have signed a deal to build and finance a natural gas pipeline and deepen their cooperation on nuclear energy, extending the two countries' ties on resources.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Iran finalised a $7bn “peace pipeline” deal yesterday to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, Iran’s state television reported.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from thepeninsulaqatar.com

Fingrid, the electricity transmission system operator in Finland, has made a capital investment decision concerning the second direct current transmission link, EstLink 2, between Estonia and Finland.

• Date: 11.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from tdworld.com

Investments in wind power generators are a great way to support smaller municipalities around Bulgaria, according to Tsonko Tsonev, mayor of the Black Sea town of Kavarna.

• Date: 11.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

The Turkish energy minister said Wednesday that Turkey, as a partner country of Nabucco, had numerous responsibilities such as finding revenue for the project.

• Date: 11.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Estonian main grid company AS Elering manager Taavi Veskimägi says that Estonia is unable at the moment to fulfil the promise made to the European Union to keep 35% of the electricity market open and politicians have to do something about it in the near future, LETA/National Broadcasting reports.

• Date: 11.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov called on the government to proceed faster with the construction of the second nuclear power plant “Belene”, which has been stalled over lack of funding.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com