Energetics

It is the opinion of the event’s participants that for effective development of our countries’ economies we need to increase the level of trust between our states and at the same time introduce environmentally-friendly technologies. German representatives also stated the need for increasing export volumes of Russian gas to Europe.

It was the first day of the Russian-German Raw Materials Dialogue when the following statement was released: our countries need a continuous and equal dialogue in conditions of good-neighbourliness.

John Bolton, National Security Advisor of the United States, in his speech at the briefing in Kyiv once again urged European countries to look for new alternatives to the «Nord Stream 2»

It was 64 years ago when in Obninsk the world’s first connected to a shared electrical network NPP was launched.”Forpost” asked an expert in the field of peaceful atom, president of voluntary association ”Miners of Russia” Valery Yazev, whether modern plants are safe and what were the reasons for Germany to abandon nuclear generation.

On July 5th, head of Gazprom PJSC, Alexey Miller, and head of OMV AG, Rainer Seele, signed an agreement prolonging the current contract for export of Russian natural gas to Austria until 2040. The extention of the contract was timed to the 50th anniversary of supplying Russian ”blue fuel” to this country.

The leading specialist of “Verbundnetz Gas AG” (FRG) Jӧrg Lewetz gave a lecture “Current challenges of German and global energy policies” in Saint-Petersburg. Forpost asked the expert why Russian natural gas supplies to Europe keep growing for the third year in a row and if this tendency holds when wind mills and solar arrays will display hydrocarbons from German power balance.

Mining in a new coal longwall panel on «Moschniy» seam has started in «Vorgashorskaya» mine located in Komi republic. The press office of «Vorkutaugol» company briefed «Forpost» on this.

«Forpost» found out how to meet the growing demand for methanol and to keep the trend of enhancing coal production in Russia

According to the professor from the University of Stavanger, specific climatic conditions, lack of technologies and low oil extraction factor detain the improvement of oil recovery profitability.

Scientists are sure that construction of fast neutron NPPs will produce low cost power while operation of nuclear reactors will become majorly safer.