Kazakhstan is in talks with China on transit for export of uranium, the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan said. Kazatomprom is transporting uranium to North America and Europe via a port in St. Petersburg. Alternative route is transportation through the Caspian Sea, where the port of Aktau (Kazakhstan), port of …
Read More »World Bank Provides $46.25 Million for Uzbekistan’s Clean Energy Transition, Energy Efficiency
During the 2023 World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, the government of Uzbekistan and the World Bank signed an agreement to allocate $46.25 million for financing the Innovative Carbon Resource Application for Energy Transition Project (iCRAFT). These funds will help implement a project supporting …
Read More »Kazakhstan to Elaborate Creation of Central Asian Hydropower Consortium by December 2023
Kazakhstan will elaborate creation of the hydropower consortium of Central Asia, according to the action plan of the concept of development of water resources management system until 2029. The Ministry of Ecology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Security Committee will work on this. The information on the progress of the …
Read More »Turkmenistan Suspends Gas Supplies to Uzbekistan, Iran and Decreases to China
Turkmenistan has suspended gas supplies to Uzbekistan through the Daryalyk station since January 12, Gazeta.uz reported. This supplies were suspended for technical reasons due to abnormal frosts in the region. Low temperatures led to the formation of hydrate in the infield communications of the Galkanysh gas condensate field, the newspaper …
Read More »IAEA, FAO Launch Seeds into Space to Develop Crops Adaptable to Climate Change
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched seeds into space today as they intensify their joint efforts to develop new crops able to adapt to the ravages of climate change on Earth, the FAO press service reported. The seeds …
Read More »Turkmenistan among Global Ultra-Emitters of Methane
About a tenth of the global oil and gas industry’s methane emissions have been found to come from a group of “ultra-emitter” sites located mostly in Turkmenistan, Russia and the US. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that governments recently agreed to slash by 2030, New Scientist reported. While huge …
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