Balkan Oil Pipeline Agreement Moves Project Closer to Reality
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Prime ministers of three Balkan countries this week signed an agreement in Bulgaria to build an oil pipeline from the Black Sea to the Adriatic.
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There is great excitement in the Balkan state as its people prepare to welcome world leaders, reports Laura Sheeter.
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"I'm sure that we would get five to eight times more for NIS if it was sold through international bidding"  Serbia endorsed on Tuesday an energy co-operation deal with Russia, envisioning its inclusion in the South Stream gas pipeline project. via SETimes news
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A Portuguese-led consortium has won a 35-year concession to complete and run a highway linking Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Burgas with its border with Serbia, the government said Thursday.
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The group developing a big Kazakhstan field may be reaching an accord with the irate state.
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Russia won the right on Friday to route a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a "pipeline war" with the European Union.
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The creation of a single European gas market took a step forward yesterday with the Dutch government taking control of its country&#39;s gas transport network from Royal Dutch/Shell and ExxonMobil.
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For years, pipelines from the former Soviet Union have shipped the prosaic necessities of oil and gas to western Europe.
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Iraqi and European Union officials agreed Thursday to pursue closer energy ties, bringing the EU a step closer to turning Iraq into a major supplier and reducing its dependency on Russia.
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Ukraine has finished phase one of construction of a navigation canal linking the Danube and the Black Sea.
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"The U.S. side warned about the political influence Moscow would gain by controlling energy resources in Serbia and the region, and expressed a negative assessment about the economic justification of South Stream"  By Oleg ShchedrovMOSCOW  - Russia won the right on Friday to route a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a "pipeline war" with the European Union.The gas agreement, signed in the Kremlin before President Vladimir Putin and visiting Serbian leaders, alarmed the United States because it increased Moscow's control over energy supplies to Europe and could undermine a rival EU project.Strong Russian opposition to independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo was a key bargaining chip in the agreement for Serbia to join the South Stream gas pipeline. Belgrade also agreed to sell a majority stake in Serbia's oil monopoly NIS to Russian gas giant Gazprom at a favorable price. Read more
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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 deal will create a global offshore oil giant Energy firms Statoil and Norsk Hydro have unveiled plans to merge their offshore oil and gas operations, creating a global industry giant.Comment
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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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The purchase, which ConocoPhillips, the American energy conern, made at an auction today for the Russian government's stake in Lukoil, sets the stage for projects in Iraq.
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Business: 23 December 2004, Thursday. Sofia will host the venue of three Balkan prime ministers on December 28 scheduled to sign a memorandum over the finalization of the oil pipeline project connecting the ...
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MOSCOW, Jan. 25 -- Russian and Serbian officials signed a multibillion-dollar energy deal Friday that would make Serbia a key hub for Russian energy supplies and strengthen Moscow's dominance of the European energy market.