Caspian pipeline 'unites nations'
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The leaders of Azerbaijan and Georgia attend a ceremony to mark a new phase in building a pipeline due to bring Caspian oil to Western markets.
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The group developing a big Kazakhstan field may be reaching an accord with the irate state.
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Text of report by Iranian radio from Gorgan on 7 September  Senior Kazakh officials are declaring the plans of expanding the development of offshore oilfields in the Caspian.
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The country's infrastructure makes it an attractive candidate for offshore work, a research company says.
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Six European countries, including Austria, Italy and Romania, approved a plan for a pipeline to ship oil from the Caspian Sea region to western Europe, officials said Friday.
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MOSCOW  - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed off Friday on a project to build an oil pipeline stretching from eastern Siberia to the port of Pervoznaya on Russia's Pacific Coast.
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Business & money: Â·  British Gas owner Centrica may be target of Russians Â·  Putin shrugs off warning by Blair on economic ties
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Italian energy company Eni SpA and Russia's state-controlled OAO Gazprom said on Saturday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding on the possibility of supplying Russian gas to European Union countries through a pipeline under the Black Sea.
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A consortium of foreign companies has resolved a dispute over Kazakhstanâs giant Kashagan oil field.
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South Korea's state-run Korea National  Oil Corp. (KNOC) has signed a deal with Kazakhstan's state oil  firm KazMunaiGas to set up an upstream oil project in the  oil-rich Caspian Sea.
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TEHRAN (International Herald Tribune) - President Vladimir Putin of Russia told a meeting of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran on Tuesday that any use of military force in the region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launching military strikes against any of the others. Putin's comments and the declaration came at a time when France and the United States have refused to rule out military action to halt Iran's nuclear energy program, which they believe masks a desire to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its program is solely for peaceful purposes.
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Booming Azerbaijan is the key to the West's energy freedom. It's a precarious place for such a crucial job
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The two countries also signed four agreements, including one to build a pipeline to ensure smooth supply of petroleum products to Nepal.
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French utility Gaz de France wants to join the European Union&#39;s flagship Nabucco gas pipeline, the French gas giant&#39;s chief operating officer Jean-Marie Dauger said here Friday.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan  - Kazakhstan will start building a railway link next year connecting Southeast Asia with the European Union, Transport Minister Kazhymurat Nagmanov said Wednesday.
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Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia has given the go ahead for the construction of a $1.2bn oil pipeline that will pass through the Balkan peninsula.
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Both Iraqi unity and global engagement may get a boost.