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Lukoil Buys 1.4 Million Shares In Buyback Program

Lukoil Buys 1.4 Million Shares In Buyback Program

Russia's largest independent oil producer, OAO Lukoil (LKOH.RS), Monday said it had bought company stock worth around $95 million, as it continues a buyback in order to support the stock.

Greece Faces a Difficult Task in Minimizing Effects of Global Crisis

Greece Faces a Difficult Task in Minimizing Effects of Global Crisis

The Greek economy has navigated the troubled waters of the international financial crisis much better than its peers in the eurozone and elsewhere but it will feel the impact more than estimated a few months ago, as growth momentum is receding.

Turkey to Relaunch Tender for $5 bln Coal-Fired Power Plant

Turkey to Relaunch Tender for $5 bln Coal-Fired Power Plant

Turkey’s state-run Electricity Production Corporation (EUAS) will relaunch a coal-fired power plant tender worth $5 billion under amended terms next month, the company’s chief executive Sefer Butun told Reuters yesterday. The Electricity Production Corporation canceled the previous tender after it considered too high the price the bidders wanted for electricity produced in the Afsin Elbistan C and D units.

Russian Gas

Russian Gas

The International Energy Agency, an adviser to oil and gas-consuming nations, said Russia may postpone plans to raise domestic natural gas prices, potentially stalling investment in increasing production. “In the context of inflationary pressures, price reform could be postponed,” the IEA said yesterday in its Natural Gas Market Review 2008.

Bulgaria Puts Together 4-bln-euro Power Firm

Bulgaria Puts Together 4-bln-euro Power Firm

Bulgaria yesterday merged its biggest energy companies into a 4-billion-euro holding structure to strengthen its position in the European market. The move, which Sofia first announced last year, comes at a time when the European Union is pushing for greater energy market liberalization and competition.

KazMunaiGas,Shell To Run Kashagan Oil Production - Kazakh Min

KazMunaiGas,Shell To Run Kashagan Oil Production - Kazakh Min

Kazakh state oil and gas company KazMunaiGas will set up a joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) to manage oil production at the giant Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea, the Kazakh Energy Minister has said according to a statement on the government Web site Friday.

New Edison LNG Terminal Cuts Dependence On Russia

New Edison LNG Terminal Cuts Dependence On Russia

Edison SpA (EDN.MI) said Saturday a new offshore regasification terminal reached Italy, opening a new natural gas route into the European Union and curbing Italy's dependency on Russian imports.

Polish Min: NATO Must Review Relations With Russia

Polish Min: NATO Must Review Relations With Russia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization must review its relations with Russia and update the alliance's defense strategy in the light of the Georgia crisis, Poland's defense minister said in comments published Friday.

Berlusconi Launches Nuclear And Renewable Energy Plan

Berlusconi Launches Nuclear And Renewable Energy Plan

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Saturday the introduction of "a national energy plan" paving the way for a controversial return to nuclear energy, ANSA news agency reported.

Iran Appoints New Execs At National Gas, Petrochem Cos

Iran Appoints New Execs At National Gas, Petrochem Cos

Iranian oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari has appointed new managing directors at Iran's national gas and petrochemical companies, a spokesman from the National Iranian Gas Co. said Sunday.

Iraq,Shell To Sign $3B-$4B Gas Devt Deal Mon-Spokesman

Iraq,Shell To Sign $3B-$4B Gas Devt Deal Mon-Spokesman

Iraq will sign Monday a preliminary gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB) worth $3 billion-$4 billion to jointly develop domestic gas infrastructure in the country's south, an Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.

DJ Iraq Aug Oil Revenues Slip By 20.6% On Month

DJ Iraq Aug Oil Revenues Slip By 20.6% On Month

Iraq's revenues from crude oil sales were $5.55 billion in August, 20.6% less than what Baghdad earned in the previous month because of a drop in world oil prices, an Iraqi Oil Ministry statement said Sunday.

Eni Sees Kashagan Output Start At 150,000 BOE/D In 4Q 12

Eni Sees Kashagan Output Start At 150,000 BOE/D In 4Q 12

Eni SpA (E), the Italian energy company leading the consortium developing Kashagan, expects the start of output at the oil project in Kazakhstan to begin in the last quarter of 2012, according to a slide on its Web site Thursday.