On July 6, at 2:56 p.m. the TG-6 turbo generator of power unit No.3 was shut down by the generator-transformer unit protection. The automatic equipment activated due to the power line cutout in Karelia.
The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) today announced it had launched an investigation into Evraz Group (LSE: EVR) ("Evraz") and other coal mining companies in relation to the pricing of coking coal in the Russian and export (ex-Russia) markets.
Moscow design and engineering branch — «VVER Design Centre» — was established on the basis of JSC «Atomenergoproekt» as a separate division of the company.
In June, 2010 power units of Smolensk NPP generated 1.443 billion KWh of electric power, the plan was fulfilled by 103.6%. Since the beginning of the year the NPP has produced 11.651 billion KWh of electric power.
A celebratory opening of Gazprom’s Representative Office in Latvia was held in Riga.
The control room at a nuclear-power plant in Limerick, Pa. The National Security Agency's 'Perfect Citizen' program will detect cyber assaults on critical infrastructure, but could also help companies in other fields, such as Google, which sustained a major attack late last year.
OJSC "Turboatom" and German company "Waldrich Coburg" signed the Contract on updating one of the determined machining centers of the plant – spanning - milling machine Waldrich Coburg.
Irkutsk Oil Company has increased oil and condensate production in 1H of 2010 to 303,000 tons, an 88.7% increase comparative to the same period of the last year.
TNK-BP has boosted investment in the renovation and modernization of the Saratov Oil Refinery during the first half of 2010 to 200 million rubles, which is over 30% more than last year. The company plans to invest a total of 2.3 billion rubles in 2010 (compared to 1.8 bn rubles in 2009).
In the beginning of July 2010 Sakhalin Energy have successfully completed the first offshore 4D seismic survey in Russia. Acquisition work fulfilled by contractor’s vessels in the sea of Okhotsk took almost three weeks.