At RusHydro's Neporozhniy Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP hydro-unit No. 4 with a 640 MW capacity has been connected to the grid under load. The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin gave a command to launch the hydro-unit under load during video-conference.
OJSC “Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Company” (RTS/MICEX: “KBTK”), one of the fastest-growing thermal coal producers in Russia, is pleased to announce its operational results for the six months ended 30 June 2010.
Between now and August 9, TNK-BP’s website is running a survey of the company’s contractors, many of which will take part in a convention of TNK-BP suppliers and contractors planned for late September 2010.
ROSPAN INTERNATIONAL, a subsidiary of TNK-BP, invested over 2.4 bln rubles in the development of the Suzunskoe, Tagulskoe and Russko-Rechenskoe fields during the first half of 2010.
In Erevan there was held a meeting of Armenian Government which approved the agreement with Russian Government on “Cooperation in Construction of New Nuclear Power Units on the Armenia Territory”.
BP PLC is in talks to sell its stakes in oil projects in Venezuela to its Russian joint venture TNK-BP Ltd., part of a $30 billion asset disposal program designed to help it meet the costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Within the development of Conditions Feasibility Study and Pre-Feasibility Study of Elkon Mining-and-Metallurgical Integrated Works project, Atomredetzoloto OJSC Uranium Holding (ARMZ) evaluated five Yuzhnaya Zone groups of deposits of the Elkon Uranium-Ore Area, located in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Seven participants of the project of construction of ITER international experimental nuclear fusion reactor – EU, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA – reached an agreement on the project implementation period and financing details.
The first batch of fuel assemblies was produced at “Mashinostroitelnyi Zavod” OJSC (Mechanical Engineering Works) (affiliate of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom State Corporation, town of Elektrostal) to be delivered to the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant (Germany) in 2010 (GUN Project).
TNK-BP subsidiary Saratovnefteproduct is continuing series of promotions at its TNK-branded retail sites. On July 31st (from 00:00 to 24:00) it will run its traditional Ruble Light event, in which each customer is given a discount of 1 ruble on each litre of fuel purchased.