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LUKoil to Invest $3 bln A Year in Oil Refining in 2012-2014

LUKoil to Invest $3 bln A Year in Oil Refining in 2012-2014

Russia's largest private oil company, LUKoil, plans to invest $3 billion annually in oil refining in the next three years, First Vice-President for Refining, Marketing and Distribution Vladimir Nekrasov said on Monday.

Cyprus, Lebanon Ready to Talk About Offshore LNG Drilling

Cyprus, Lebanon Ready to Talk About Offshore LNG Drilling

Cyprus Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Markoullis has invited her Lebanese counterpart, Adnan Mansour, to visit Nicosia over the next few days to discuss the thorny issue of the delineation of the offshore Exclusive Economic Zone, now that Texas-based Noble Energy has already started drilling to find natural gas deposits.

LNG South East Europe Conference (24 November, 2011)

LNG South East Europe Conference (24 November, 2011)

“LNG Journal”, the world’s leading LNG publication, organizes the LNG South East Europe Conference on “Supply Diversification, Trading and Operational Challenges for the Region”. The Conference takes place on Thursday 24th November 2011, in Athens, Greece (Metropolitan Hotel). The Institute of Energy for South East Europe (IENE) is the Media Partner of this important energy event

Lukoil Gets Romanian Government Approval For Black Sea Project

Lukoil Gets Romanian Government Approval For Black Sea Project

Russia's biggest independent oil producer OAO Lukoil Holdings (LKOH.RS) said Thursday the Romanian government has approved a deal to enable it to explore and develop two offshore blocks in the Black Sea.

Polish Yamal Reverse Flow Deals Likely Settled In Germany

Polish Yamal Reverse Flow Deals Likely Settled In Germany

Polish state-owned pipeline operator Gaz-System SA is able to offer virtual reverse flow services on the Yamal-Europe natural gas pipeline because potential contracts will likely be settled at a location on the German side of the Polish-German border, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

Iraq Outlines Oil Production Strategy To 2030

Iraq Outlines Oil Production Strategy To 2030

The Iraqi government has teamed up with Booz & Company and the World Bank in preparing a so-called an integrated energy strategy outlining three scenarios for the country's oil production from 2012 to 2030.

Cyprus Planning Sovereign Gas Fund; Growing Interest for New Drilling

Cyprus Planning Sovereign Gas Fund; Growing Interest for New Drilling

Cyprus has not even confirmed the existence of natural gas off its shores, but it is already thinking about setting up a sovereign wealth fund to manage the riches it hopes will come its way. Gas has the potential to transform the island, but assuming the first results from exploratory drilling due in December are positive, it will be a long time before the euro zone's third-smallest economy is able to export gas, Trade and Industry Minister Praxoula Antoniadou told Reuters.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Passed the Decision to Accept the MOU with Shell Exploration

Bosnia and Herzegovina Passed the Decision to Accept the MOU with Shell Exploration

The Government of the Federation of BiH (FBiH) passed the decision to accept the Memorandum of Understanding with Shell Exploration Company B.V. - a company established in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with registered office in The Hague – and the decision granting authorization for its signing

Giant Gas Find for Eni in Mozambique

Giant Gas Find for Eni in Mozambique

Eni has announced a giant gas discovery at its Mamba South 1 prospect offshore Mozambique. The Area 4 discovery well encountered a total of 212 metres of continuous gas pay in high-quality Oligocene sands, the Italian player said in a statement on Thursday.

GDF Suez Would Review Belgian Investments If Nuclear Tax Approved

GDF Suez Would Review Belgian Investments If Nuclear Tax Approved

French power company GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) said it would reconsider planned investments to extend the life of some of its nuclear reactors in Belgium if the government approved a tax increase on the nuclear generation industry.

Iraq, Oil Majors Agree To Build Oil Field Water Injection Plant

Iraq, Oil Majors Agree To Build Oil Field Water Injection Plant

Iraq has agreed with oil majors to build a multi-billion-dollar oil field water injection plant in the south of the country, after disagreement over costs that suspended the project for months, a senior Iraqi official said Wednesday.

Polish Gas Firm May Launch Arbitration Against Gazprom

Polish Gas Firm May Launch Arbitration Against Gazprom

Poland's state-controlled gas firm PGNiG SA (PGN.WA) may launch arbitration proceedings against Russia's OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) if by the end of October the Russian firm doesn't agree to cut its prices for natural gas, a PGNiG executive said Wednesday, according to state-owned newswire PAP.