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Russia and Vietnam have agreed several new oil and gas development deals including Joint Ventures in each others countries. Russian investors are also eying Vietnamese oil fields and refining facilities in the South China Sea.
Russia’s Energy Minister, Sergei Tsivilev has stated that Russia has enough oil and gas supplies to meet its own needs, fulfill outstanding contracts, and supply all countries who ask for deliveries. He said ‘a profound transformation is happening, even in mindsets’ as regards global energy supplies and Western sanctions policies.
Russia has invited scientists from ‘friendly countries’ to participate in nuclear energy research at the world’s largest such facility, RIAR in Dimitrovgrad. This excludes European scientists. We examine the differences between Russia and Europe’s nuclear power generation capabilities, the reasons for this exclusion and Rosatom’s developing plans for expanding nuclear energy use on an international basis.
Russia’s Uranium One Group (part of TENEX, a Rosatom subsidiary) and Brazil’s NBEPar have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Brazil. Part of the new companies remit will be to assess and develop uranium deposits in the country with an additional view of developing Brazil’s nuclear energy sector.
Russia and Vietnam have signed Nuclear Energy Agreements that pave the way for the development of a NPP in Vietnam. The agreement provides for the construction of a 2,400 MW NPP, and regulates the terms and key areas of cooperation between the parties in implementing the project. It sets up the necessary legal framework for the plant’s construction and will determine the course of Russian-Vietnamese nuclear cooperation for decades to come.
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Rosatom have begun work on Kazakhstan’s first Nuclear Power Plant and is looking to expand cooperation with other international partners in Kazakhstan’s growing nuclear energy industry. The country possesses significant uranium reserves.
Russia’s Rosatom nuclear energy company have begun pouring concrete as part of the initial construction process for Uzbekistan’s NPP in the Jizzakh region. It is part of the construction of a small nuclear power plant unit with a RITM-200N reactor and is expected to provide about 14% of Uzbekistan’s total energy needs.
The crisis in the Middle East is drastically affecting Russian oil prices and creating fluctuations in the value of the Ruble. We examine the implications, how the Russian government is benefiting, while at the same time being cautious and managing the situation. We provide analysis of how these issues can be expected to impact the Russian economy and the Russian domestic consumer over the course of this year.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov has met with his Kenyan counterpart, Musalia Mudavadi, in Moscow. The two discussed deepening bilateral cooperation, trade and synchronizing matters relating to global affairs. Current bilateral trade is mainly agricultural based however both sides see development potential in several areas.
Russia’s Rosatom has signed an MoU with South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Corporation as regards expanding the generation capacity of its Koeberg NPP and look at developing additional NPP without the country. South Africa has the only NPP in the African continent yet is suffering from blackouts and a lack of electricity,
A study of the Chinese National People’s Congress 2026-30 budget, just released, reveals that China intends to fast-track the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline from Russia and expedite increasing LNG supplies as soon as possible. The move comes as a stabilizing factor in China’s energy security as they look for alternatives to supplies from the Middle East. This will likely mean that Russia will replace Qatar as China’s primary LNG source.
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