Kazakhstan will freeze further development of its most promising gas field, Karachaganak, if it fails to resolve its dispute with foreign shareholders in the project, the Kazakh oil and gas minister said on Wednesday.

• Date: 19.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from ctv.ca

Once again as it has before in its troubled history, the Nabucco pipeline consortium has announced a postponement of construction until 2013, citing a lack of supply contracts, Robert M. Cutler of the Asia Times reports. Gas would not start pumping until 2017

• Date: 18.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from eurasianet.org

A solution to a shareholder dispute over the development of Kazakhstan's most prospective gas field could take anything from six months to 10 years, the head of Russian shareholder LUKOIL (LKOH.MM) said on Tuesday.

• Date: 17.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Pakistanis can now have uninterrupted electricity supply — but for a price.

• Date: 16.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from thaindian.com

On Wednesday, within discussions on main aspects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union at the plenary meeting of the European Parliament, a Swedish MP, Anna Ibrisagic in her speech noted the worsening of situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

• Date: 14.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan provided us with relief money of 120,000 US dollars (approximately 1 million yen) regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake.

• Date: 14.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from presstrust.com

Russia is attempting to suppress a United Nations report that says Iran has been breaking a U.N. arms embargo by shipping weapons to Syria, Western diplomats said Thursday.

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  External Relations  |  from msn.com

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) signed a provisional Rs.1,500 crore deal with the government of Iraq earlier this month, the latest of several efforts by state-owned companies to engage with oil and gas-rich countries in West Asia that have well over half of the world’s proven reserves of crude oil and a little over a third of global gas reserves.

• Date: 13.05.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2011  |  Energy  |  from livemint.com