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BP project contractors in
Azerbaijan reduced the volume
of completed orders by 30.7%
in H1
Contracting companies for BP projects
in Azerbaijan in the first half of 2022 completed orders worth $653.2mn, which is 30.7% lower than the same period in 2021, the press service of BP-Azerbaijan said in a statement. Of the indicated amount, 14 joint ventures completed orders for $323.9mn,
22 state-owned enterprises for $18.2mn,
184 small and medium-sized enterprises
for $144.5mn, and 88 foreign companies working on projects for $166.6mn, said
BP in Azerbaijan. Investments in the implementation of social projects by BP and its partners in Azerbaijan in January-June 2022 totalled $2.1mn.
BP in Azerbaijan is a participant in projects for the development of the Azeri-Chirag- Guneshli field block, the Shah Deniz field,
a shareholder in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
and South Caucasus pipeline projects, and
a shareholder in projects for the exploration and development of shallow waters of the Absheron archipelago, block D -230 and Shafag-Asiman structures in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea..
PKN Orlen says in talks on
Russian oil imports to Czech
Republic
Poland’s PKN Orlen, owning refineries in the Czech Republic, is in talks to resume Russian oil supplies, spokeswoman for Czech operator MERO Barbora Putzova, told PRIME on Thursday.
“The negotiations on further oil supplies to the Czech Republic continue at the level of Poland’s company PKN Orlen, which owns Czech refining capacities,” Putzova said.
Aide to Transpetrol CEO Linda Vaskovicova said earlier that Russia will not resume oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic.
On August 4, Ukrainian state company Ukrtransnafta stopped Russian oil pumping through the southern line of the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia because of the troubles with
payments after the seventh package of sanctions. On Wednesday, Russia’s Transneft restarted the shipments after Hungarian oil and gas company MOL and Slovnaft paid for the transit.
GIE: EU continues to put gas in storages at high rates August
The E.U. continued to put gas in its underground storages at high rates in August in spite of limited imports from Russia, Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) said in a statement Thursday.
As of the end of the Tuesday gas day,
at 7:00 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday, the European gas storages were 72.79% full, with the reserve growth amounting
to 0.39 percentage point on the day. The overall reserves amounted to 73.5 billion cubic meters. At the same date in 2021, the reserves were 60.12% full.
The average daily reserve increase amounted to 0.39 percentage points in August after 0.34 percentage points over the last five years..
Report: Bulgaria may restart gas imports from Gazprom
The Bulgarian government is considering different options of solving the country’s energy crisis, including restarting natural gas imports from Russian gas giant Gazprom, Caretaker Energy Minister Rossen Hristov said in an interview to local television channel bTV broadcast late on Tuesday.
“We are a government of technocrats, and we are considering all options, including a restart of supplies from Gazprom. We are considering alternative suppliers as a priority, but if it turns out that they are not sufficient, I will not be the minister who will leave the people freeze in the winter,” he said.
Gazprom stopped pumping gas to Bulgaria in April as the country refused to pay for it
in rubles. The Bulgarian government of Kirill Petkov later signed an agreement with the U.S. on the delivery of seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, but the country’s business representatives thought it will not be enough.
As a result, the government resigned, and attempts to form a new government failed. President Rumen Radev announced early parliamentary elections and appointed a caretaker government that started working on
August 2.
Ivan Topchiysky, chairman of the board
of directors of Bulgarian gas distribution company Bulgargaz, said in August that the company continued negotiations with Gazprom and that it was possible to restart supplies of Russian gas to Bulgaria.
Ambassador: Bangladesh mulls
supplies of Russian oil with
Moscow
Bangladesh is trying to reach an agreement with Moscow on supplies of Russian oil
in spite of the sanctions, Bangladeshi ambassador to Russia Kamrul Ashan told PRIME on Tuesday.
“We are now trying to attract Russia’s attention. Russia helps us build a nuclear power plant in a U.S. $14 billion project. Gazprom has a contract for exploration of gas deposits in Bangladesh. We are trying to agree on imports of Russian oil even though I know it will fall under the U.S. sanctions. Still, we are open for negotiations with Russia,” he said.
Previously, students launched protests in the country’s capital city of Dhaka demanding that the government cut fuel prices and revert a decision to raise the cost of
public transportation. oland’s PKN Orlen, owning refineries in the Czech Republic,
is in talks to resume Russian oil supplies, spokeswoman for Czech operator MERO Barbora Putzova, told PRIME on Thursday.
“The negotiations on further oil supplies to the Czech Republic continue at the level of Poland’s company PKN Orlen, which owns Czech refining capacities,” Putzova said.
Aide to Transpetrol CEO Linda Vaskovicova said earlier that Russia will not resume oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic.
On August 4, Ukrainian state company Ukrtransnafta stopped Russian oil pumping through the southern line of the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia because of the troubles with payments after the seventh package of sanctions. On Wednesday, Russia’s Transneft restarted the shipments after Hungarian oil and gas company MOL and Slovnaft paid for the transit.
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