Natural Gas
Moldova might import natural gas from Ukraine
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January 21, 2012Moldova might have to buy natural gas from Ukraine if the bargaining between Moldova and Gazprom, the Russian gas provider, will fail. The statement was made by Viktor Ianucovici, the Ukrainian President, according to Marian Lupu, the acting president...
Moldovagaz proposes increasing gas tariff by 17.6%
January 19, 2011The Moldovagaz Moldo-Russian natural gas supplying enterprise has proposed authorities to increase the gas tariff for consumers by 17.6% - per whole year at once. During a public hearing in the National Energy Regulatory Agency of Moldova (ANRE) on...
US researchers get same yields with fewer fertilizers, pesticides
May 19, 2010By Steve Baragona Farming with less fossil fuel won't mean fewer crops As rising petroleum prices continue to increase the costs of producing food, new research suggests farmers can use less fossil fuel without reducing their crop yields or profits...
Moldova increases energy prices again
May 17, 2010The Moldovan government promised to help low-income people pay their bills after announcing a 14 percent raise in utility prices, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The country's pro-Western government pledged on May 14 to give compensation to the poorest...
Sarah Palin's "Drill, baby, drill" becomes President Obama's policy? (video)
April 01, 2010President Obama unveiled plans Wednesday to open large swaths of U.S. coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling -- a move likely to please the energy industry but upset the administration's environmentalist...
Obama announced plans to lift ban on offshore oil drilling in US
April 01, 2010By Kent Klein President Barack Obama announced plans Wednesday to reverse a decades-old U.S. ban on new drilling for oil and natural gas off some parts of the country's shores. The president's decision also reverses a stance he took in the 2008 election...
11 countries in Central, Southeastern Europe hold energy summit
March 03, 2010By Vladimir Socor Hungary hosts region-wide summit on energy security The prime ministers of eleven countries in Central and Southeastern Europe met on February 24 in Budapest, for the first Energy Security Summit in this region. Hungary initiated...
Moscow targets BP assets in eastern Siberia
February 22, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russian authorities threaten BP assets at Kovykta project Russia’s Natural Environment Inspectorate (RosPrirodNadzor) has recommended that BP’s joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP, be stripped of the giant Kovykta natural gas...
Moldova says Russia hikes gas price by 20 percent
January 06, 2010Moldovan Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar says Russia's Gazprom raised the natural gas price for Moldova by more than 20 percent on January 1, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The new price, which is valid for the first quarter of the year, is reportedly...
Moldova to pay more for Russian gas in 2010
January 05, 2010Russia s gas giant Gazprom has announced the preliminary price for gas supplied to Moldova in the first quarter of 2010 - 233 dollars per 1,000 square metres of gas. The new price is by about 40 dollars higher compared with the fourth quarter of 2009...