Russia, China sign $25-bn energy deal

October 13th, 2009 Russia, China sign deals with $3.5 billionBEIJING — Russia and China signed agreements worth $3.5 billion Tuesday, but the former rivals-turned-strategic partners were still working on an energy deal, a top Russian official said. The deals were signed during a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to bolster energy, political and military ties.

October 13th, 2009 BEIJING - Contracts worth $3.5 billion have been signed at a Russian-Chinese business forum here, Russia's deputy prime minister said Tuesday. The bilateral business forum coincided with a visit to China by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

October 13th, 2009 Russia, China sign deals worth $3.5 billion BEIJING — Russia and China signed agreements worth $3.5 billion Tuesday, but the former rivals-turned-strategic partners were still working on a major energy deal, a top Russian official said. The deals were signed during a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to bolster energy, political and military ties.

September 29th, 2009 BEIJING - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit China Oct 12-14 to meet Chinese leaders and attend a Central Asian security summit, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday. Putin's visit was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, and with a council of heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu told reporters.

July 17th, 2009 Turkmens, RWE sign energy exploration dealASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — German energy giant RWE AG has signed a deal with Turkmenistan to develop oil and gas fields off the energy-rich country's Caspian shore, state-run media said Friday. The agreement is another breakthrough in European efforts to tap Turkmenistan's lucrative energy resources and could help efforts to diversify European gas deliveries away from Russia.

June 29th, 2009 Russia, Azerbaijan expected to agree new gas dealMOSCOW — Russia's president was expected to clinch a major new natural gas deal with Azerbaijan on Monday, dealing another blow to Western efforts to find alternates to Russia for energy supplies. Dmitry Medvedev was to travel to the Azerbaijani capital Baku, along with the chief of Russia's state-run natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, to oversee the deal's signing.

June 25th, 2009 China, Turkmenistan seal landmark energy dealASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — China signed a 30-year deal to increase purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan by 30 percent, state media reported Thursday — a landmark agreement for Beijing as it competes with Moscow for access to Central Asia's energy wealth. No value was announced for the deal, which also marks another step forward in Chinese efforts to find long-term, stable energy supplies.

June 25th, 2009 China, Turkmenistan seal long-term energy dealASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — China has secured a long-term deal to buy 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from energy-rich Turkmenistan. State newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported Thursday the two countries have agreed on the binding details of a 30-year contract to increase China's annual gas purchases from the previously agreed amount of 30 billion cubic meters, starting in 2010.

May 14th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate setting up nuclear power plants in Bangladesh and transfer of related technology. Similar MoUs were signed with the US and China some months ago.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There should be high level talks between Brazil, Russia, India and China on a global pact to combat climate change before the first BRIC summit in Russia next month, India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran said here Thursday. The talks should be at the level of either politicians or senior officials, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Saran told delegates from all BRIC countries at a summit preparatory meeting organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

April 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - China and France have signed an agreement to extend their cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear power. The three-year agreement, which was signed Tuesday by the heads of the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) and the French Atomic Energy Commission, is the 10th agreement of its kind between the two nations.

April 21st, 2009 BEIJING - Russia and China signed an agreement on oil cooperation in Beijing Tuesday, under which a new branch from the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline will be built to China. The agreement sets out terms for oil cooperation between the countries, in particular on the laying of a pipeline from the Skovorodino refinery in Russia's Far East to Mohe county in China's Heilongjiang province.

April 20th, 2009 BEIJING - Officials from Russia, India and China at a nuclear energy conference here confirmed Monday their countries' interest in developing nuclear technology including, a fast neutron reactor. Alexander Agapov of Russia's nuclear power corporation Rosatom, said Russia was planning 'a gradual transition from 2020 to a new technological platform on the basis of fast neutron reactors with a closed fuel cycle'.

February 28th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia will sign a deal next week allowing Spain to transit supplies for NATO operations in Afghanistan by rail through its southern territory, an aide for President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday. Medvedev will sign the transit agreement during an official visit to Madrid March 1-3, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko as saying.

February 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL expects to sign a $780 million contract for fuel supplies to Indian nuclear power plants, a spokesman for Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom has said. The contract, if signed, could make Russia the first country to supply nuclear fuel to India since the Nuclear Suppliers Group lifted a three-decade ban on nuclear fuel sales to the country on Sept 6, 2008.