BHP Billiton holds talks with Russian energy minister
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said it held talks with Russia's energy ministry this week amid reports it was considering a significant investment in the country's massive energy reserves.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  is in discussions with Russia's Gazprom  about the sale of gas from the next phase of Sakhalin-1, Robert Olsen, chairman and production director at Exxon Mobil said on Tuesday.
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LONDON, December 20  - Russiaâs mining giant Norilsk Nickel announced today that it has begun preliminary talks with two South African companies, namely Gold Fields (GFI.
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Russian authorities meet to decide whether to withdraw a licence for BP's joint venture gas field in East Siberia.
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov met Chinese military leaders in Beijing Monday to discuss cooperation between China, a fast-rising military power, and its main foreign arms and weapons-technology supplier.
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The Russian government will discuss ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Thursday, the government press service said on Wednesday, in a sign Russia is finally making up its mind to back the climate change pact.
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Russia's liberal economy minister joined a growing backlash against the effective re-nationalization of the country's top oil exporter Yukos and argued that state energy companies should be privatized.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's natural resources minister said Friday that he thought his ministry would give the main production unit of the battered Yukos oil company a three-month warning before pulling its drilling licenses, the Interfax news agency reported.
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President Vladimir Putin meets with China&#39;s prime minister Friday as China seeks to secure a steady supply of Russian oil imports and Moscow seeks Beijing&#39;s backing in its bid for membership in the World Trade Organization.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met several top officials in Beijing Friday, winding up two days of official talks that were rich in symbolism but left unanswered many key questions about energy supplies to China.
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Gas-producing countries will discuss the idea of forming a "gas OPEC" along the lines of the existing oil cartel in June in Moscow, Qatar's energy minister said on Friday.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov   sought to alleviate Western concerns over Russian energy deals   on Wednesday, saying talk of revising production sharing deals   or pushing foreigners out of the sector was unfounded, Russian   news agencies reported.
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President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Energy Minister Victor hristenko earlier this month. Analysts suggest that the governmentâs action in humbling Yukos and its owner, Mikhail hodorkovsky, is
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The Italian energy group Eni is mulling joint investments of at least 10 billion dollars with Russian gas behemoth Gazprom in two large Russian energy projects, a company spokesman has said.
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The boss of UK-based gold miner Peter Hambro Mining is to fly to Russia for urgent talks on the firm's future there.
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India's biggest oil exploration firm, Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), says it is in talks to buy the former assets of troubled Russian crude producer Yukos.
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Russia's Natural Resources Minister defended a decision that will keep foreign-controlled oil companies out of auctions of strategic raw materials resources, arguing Wednesday that tighter control would help Russia tackle widespread poverty in the country, a stated goal of president Vladimir Putin.