Even for a country known for completing massive infrastructure projects with frightening speed, China's nuclear-power-plant building spree boggles the mind.

• Date: 28.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from time.com

Following the nuclear power plant crisis in Japan, China has ordered safety inspections of its existing nuclear plants and suspension of new plant approvals.

• Date: 25.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from cnn.com

Future prospects for cooperation between China and Kazakhstan were high on the agenda during President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to Beijing on February 21. This overshadowed all other complicated and long-drawn out issues like the water sharing on Ili and Irtysh Rivers, on which a preliminary agreement was reached and the talks on Transborder Rivers, as it was disclosed to journalists, will be finalized during the trip by the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, to Kazakhstan scheduled for June.

• Date: 24.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from jamestown.org

Thermal coal producers in Asia Pacific are likely to feel some short-term financial impact from Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

• Date: 24.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from commodityonline.com

Bulgaria has confirmed its interest in buying natural gas from Turkmenistan, as well as its commitment to facilitate gas exports, the Economy Ministry said in a statement

• Date: 21.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from sofiaecho.com

The possibility of sending Turkmen gas supplies to Bulgaria was discussed at a Turkmen-Bulgarian intergovernmental economic cooperation commission meeting that is underway in Sofia on March 16-19, Bulgarian media outlets reported on Friday.

• Date: 18.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Russia on Thursday weighed alternatives for its ambitious South Stream gas pipeline project amid reports that Turkey was purposely delaying its approval of the route through its Black Sea waters.

• Date: 18.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from france24.com

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said India may impose additional safeguards for its nuclear power projects in the wake of the damage caused to Japan's atomic facilities by Friday's earthquake and the tsunami it unleashed.

• Date: 16.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from tradingcharts.com