"Khakasskaya" Mine (OOO SUEK-Khakassia) started mining coal from a new longwall block (No. 46) of Velikan-II coal seam. Longwall block No. 46 reserves amount to nearly 1,400,000 tonnes of D-grade power-generating coal.
To minimise the risk of emergencies at OJSC Orenburgneft facilities (a member of the TNK-BP structure) dry grass has been removed from respective territories, wellhead banks and tank farms have been renovated and decommissioned facilities have been inspected to address fire hazards.
TVEL Fuel Company and NNEGC “Energoatom” have signed a long-term contract for the supply of fresh nuclear fuel to Ukrainian NPPs after 2010.
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. This follows an announcement on May 29 to move to the next step in the subsea operations.
The Rtischevskaya oil depot was commissioned in 1931 and remains one of TNK-BP’s key sales terminals in the north-western part of the Saratov Region. In 2009 the company sold 19.1 tonnes of oil products through the oil depot.
Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee held a meeting at the Company’s headquarters dedicated to Ladoga-32 gas-pumping units (GPU) manufacturing, testing and utilization during the Gryazovetskaya (Gazprom transgaz Ukhta) and the Vavozhskaya (Gazprom transgaz Tchaikovsky) compressor stations (CS) upgrading.
After extensive consultation with National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen and other members of the Federal government, it plans to further enhance the lower marine riser package (“LMRP”) containment system currently scheduled to be deployed this week with further measures that are expected to keep additional oil out of the Gulf of Mexico.
OJSC "Turboatom" (Ukraine) finished the dispatch of the first runner of hydro turbine for HPP La Yeska (Mexico). The diameter of construction is 5, 3 M, weight 92 t. The dispatch began finished stage of delivery of the first package of equipment.
Siemens Energy has received an order to upgrade the six low-pressure turbines in Unit 1 of Ringhals nuclear power plant in Sweden. Customer is the Swedish utility Ringhals AB, a subsidiary of Vattenfall. The refits are scheduled for September 2011 and February 2012.
In Lyublyana under the patronage of prime minister of the Republic of Slovenia, inaugural summit Global Russia Business Meeting took place, organized by Institute Horasis (Geneva, Switzerland).