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Iran Says to Reconsider Fuel Swap if Sanctions Imposed

Iran Says to Reconsider Fuel Swap if Sanctions Imposed

Iran will reconsider a nuclear fuel swap deal if world powers agree to impose further sanctions on the Islamic Republic, Interfax news agency quoted Tehran's ambassador to Moscow as saying on Tuesday.

Areva Gets $2B US Govt Loan Guarantee For Enrichment Plant

Areva Gets $2B US Govt Loan Guarantee For Enrichment Plant

French nuclear group Areva SA (CEI.FR) said Friday that it has been granted a $2 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy to help finance its uranium enrichment facility near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Libya Ready To Help Greece - Libyan PM

Libya Ready To Help Greece - Libyan PM

Libya stands ready to help Greece emerge from its debt crisis and beef up cooperation in the energy sector, Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoud said Friday in Athens.

Turkish PM Urges Obama Not To Dismiss Iran Nuclear Deal

Turkish PM Urges Obama Not To Dismiss Iran Nuclear Deal

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged U.S. President Barack Obama not to dismiss a nuclear fuel swap deal sealed with Iran and to give diplomacy a chance, his press office said Friday.

Total In Contact To Provide Support To BP

Total In Contact To Provide Support To BP

French oil major Total SA (TOT) has contacted fellow oil major BP PLC (BP) about potentially helping dig "relief wells" to try to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Total's Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie said Friday.

GDF Suez Executive: Sees Nord Stream Deal Done In Weeks

GDF Suez Executive: Sees Nord Stream Deal Done In Weeks

French energy company GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) expects to finalize a deal that will grant it a 9% stake in the Baltic Sea gas pipeline project Nord Stream within the coming weeks, Jean-Francois Cirelli, the company's vice chairman and president, said Friday.

EU Southern Gas Corridor Getting Crowded

EU Southern Gas Corridor Getting Crowded

A new gas pipeline project – the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) linking Greece to Italy – came to light yesterday (20 May), fuelling competition in a key section of the EU's so-called 'southern gas corridor', where two more planned pipelines are bidding for the same markets.

NKorea Threatens to Freeze Relations with South

NKorea Threatens to Freeze Relations with South

North Korea threatened on Friday to freeze all inter-Korean relations and annul past agreements in response for Seoul’s accusations that Pyongyang was to blame for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, Yonhap reported.

E.ON Takes 15% Stake In Trans Adriatic Pipeline

E.ON Takes 15% Stake In Trans Adriatic Pipeline

E.ON Ruhrgas, Germany's largest importer of natural gas, in a bid to strengthen its position in the Italian market said Thursday it will join a consortium that is developing a pipeline project to bring natural gas to Europe from the Caspian region via Greece and Italy.

Chevron: Tengiz Expansion May Add 12M Tons Of Oil A Year

Chevron: Tengiz Expansion May Add 12M Tons Of Oil A Year

A planned expansion of the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan would add 12 million metric tons of crude production a year by 2016, Chevron Corp. (CVX) Vice President Ian MacDonald said Thursday.

Siemens Joins French Solar Power Project

Siemens Joins French Solar Power Project

Germany's Siemens AG (SI) said Thursday it will join French solar power initiative Transgreen, which is supposed to complement a German-led project known as Desertec.

Sinopec Prices CNY20 Billion Exchange-Traded Bonds - Sources

Sinopec Prices CNY20 Billion Exchange-Traded Bonds - Sources

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP), or Sinopec, on Thursday priced CNY20 billion (US$2.93 billion) worth of bonds, in the country's largest issue of exchange-traded corporate debt, two people familiar with the situation said.

Gazprom Neft Oil Services Unit Is Hard To Value

Gazprom Neft Oil Services Unit Is Hard To Value

The oil services business that Gazprom Neft (SIBN.RS) says it wants to sell, possibly in an initial public offering, is hard to value, says VTB, noting that the business's costs and revenue can't be determined accurately from its parent company's financial statements.