Officials in Minsk say a nuclear power plant being constructed in western Belarus will be launched during the summer and start producing electricity in the autumn. Energy Minister Viktar Karankevich Continue Reading
Mike Pompeo said that the US was ready to provide all of Belarus’s oil needs, as he became the first American secretary of state to visit the former Soviet state Continue Reading
Belarus has just bought two cargoes of Johan Sverdrup , the recently commissioned Norwegian oilfield and is in talks with several oil-producing countries from the Soviet Union to ramp up Continue Reading
Belarusian operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba said Tuesday that it has begun repair work on sections of the Druzhba oil pipeline network between Mozyr and Brest, after a large number of defects Continue Reading
Belarus’ state oil company Belorusneft has suspended supplies of its own oil to Germany this month as Minsk needs to compensate for shortages of Russia-sourced oil amid a contract dispute Continue Reading
Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus amid a disagreement over tariffs, according to officials at a Belarusian oil refinery in the northern city of Navapolatsak. The officials told RFE/RL Continue Reading
Russian crude deliveries to Belarusian refineries have been suspended since January 1, a spokesman for Russian pipeline operator Transneft said Friday, after the former Soviet republic failed to agree on Continue Reading
“Under the documents signed, the contracted volumes for delivery and transit in 2020 will remain at the same level as in 2019,” Gazprom said in a statement. The agreements come Continue Reading
Belarus began pumping contaminated oil towards Russia on Friday and by the end of Sunday it had pumped out 80,000 tonnes of it, Belarus state energy company Belneftekhim said on Continue Reading
The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday the cost of damages from contaminated oil received via the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline was ‘enormous’ and Belarus expects compensation from Continue Reading
