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Romania's net coal output up 16.5pct over Jan - Aug
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Romania's net coal output totalled 4.366 million tonnes of oil equivalent in the first eight months of this year, up by 16.5 percent (618,670 toe) from Jan. - Aug. 2010, show the figures made public by the National Statistics Institute (INS. Romania imported 305,600 net toe of coal Jan. to Aug., by 44,800 toe or 12.8 percent less compared to the amount of imports in the same period last year.According to a British Petroleum report, at the end of 2010 Romania's coal ...
Romania backs up enactment in all EU states of ban amendment on trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Romania thinks that the enactment, in all the EU counties, of the Ban Amendment on the cross-boundary movement of the hazardous waste efficiently combats the illegal waste export, Romania's Environment and Forestry Minister Laszlo Borbely said on Monday Oct 10, when attending the Environment Council gathering all the EU environment ministers, in Brussels.According to a release issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MMP) the amendment has not come into force, yet, and ...
Cernavoda n-power plant, ranked 5th among world's nuclear units
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Romania's Cernavoda nuclear-power plant has been ranked 5th among the world's nuclear plants in the latest international statistics, with a weighted capacity factor in excess of 96 percent over the past three years, SN Nuclearelectrica reports.The same statistics indicate that unit 1 of the plant is first in Europe and unit two is seventh in the ranking of European nuclear-power plants.In 2010, the Cernavoda plant supplied 10.7 million MWh for Romania's National ...
State Secretary Aurescu meets Kazakh Deputy Minister for Oil and Gas Berik Tolumbayev
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Secretary of State for European Affairs Bogdan Aurescu met on Thursday Deputy Minister for Oil and Gas of the Republic of Kazakhstan Berik Tolumbayev, president of the Kazakh side of the Mixed Intergovernmental Commission of commercial-economic and technical-scientific cooperation, whose works took place in Bucharest on Thursday and Friday. A release of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) sent to Agerpres reads that Bogdan Aurescu highlighted the strong interest Romania ...
EC Continues Infringement On Romania Over Waste Management Legislation
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Romania on Thursday received a reasoned opinion from the European Commission, the second stage of an infringement procedure over the country’s failure to transpose EU rules on waste management into national legislation. The country was supposed to align its waste management laws to EU legislation in 2010.Romania has two months to comply or it will be referred to the EU Court of Justice, where the European Commission would ask for immediate financial penalties, the EC said in a press release ...
EU raids Gazprom offices in anti-trust probe
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Russian gas exporter Gazprom said it would cooperate with an EU competition probe of its units, while sources on both sides said Wednesday (28 September) the real source of tension was Europe's fear of its growing reliance on Russian gas.A European Commission official said raids on the units this week were part of efforts to cut dependence on Russian gas, and Gazprom sources suggested the EU was acting out of worry over progress on Russia's pipeline projects that would increase Moscow's ...
Bloomberg:Romania Plans to Merge Power Plants, Mines in Two Companies
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Romania plans to merge power plants and mines, scrapping an initial plan to form two larger holdings, after unions and a minority shareholder opposed merging unprofitable assets with money-making enterprises. The Economy Ministry wants to merge three power plants and mines under one entity called Oltenia SA and two thermal power plants and coal mines under a second company called Hunedoara SA, according to a law draft on the ministry’s website . Romania scrapped a plan to merge ...
EC Opens Infringement Proceedings Against Romania Over Energy Market Legislation
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Romania and other member states for failing to transpose two directives, regarding the electricity and natural gas markets, and the Economy Ministry expects the process to be stopped in two months, when the rules are adopted.The Commission announced the first stages of the procedure, the reasoned opinion, on Thursday, but Romania has not received the opinion yet, says a ministry press release. The proceedings ...
Romanian power sector awaiting strategy
Thursday, October 6, 2011
As usual, private investors are waiting for the Romanian policy making institutions to outline the options clearly:What path for nuclear technology in Romania? While European countries reconsider their position on nuclear energy, some of them closing operational plants and abandoning advanced new developments, others restating public acceptance of the nuclear option and planning new investments, it is time for Romania to make a decision on its second nuclear power plant. The first one seems ...
Natural gas demand, estimated at 11.952 mln MWh, in October
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The total demand for natural gas in October this year is estimated at 11.952 million MWh, according to the proposal in the report drawn up by Transgaz and sent to the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE).The demand on the regulated market is estimated by Transgaz at 3.593 million MWh, of which 1.643 million MWh for non-household consumers and 1.746 million MWh for the household ones. The demand on the market of eligible consumers is forecast at 7.501 million MWh, and the ...
Romanian - Ukrainian project on Danube Delta water quality monitoring
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The authorities of Tulcea region and those of the Ukrainian Odessa region are conducting currently, on the Danube, several missions to monitor the river water quality under the heading of Joint Danube Delta Survey (JDDS).According to a release issued on Monday to the press by the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Administration (DDBRA), field studies are conducted under the project 'Joint monitoring of environment, assessment and exchange of information for integrated management of ...
AFP:Lower cyanide level in Romanian gold mine to cost millions
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Reducing cyanide levels in the tailings pond of a future Romanian gold mine would cost "several dozen million dollars", a manager of the Canadian company seeking to exploit it told AFP.Rosia Montana Gold Corporation (RMGC), which is 80 percent held by Canadian firm Gabriel Resources, wants to use cyanide to extract 300 tonnes of gold from an open-cast mine in Rosia Montana, a picturesque Carpathian mountain village.In August, Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely, who ...
Canadian officials interested in continuing investments in Cernavoda nuke plant
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Canada's Ambassador to Romania Philippe Beaulne was paying a working visit to the Chamber of Trade Industry, Navigation and Agriculture (CCINA), in Constanta (Romanian Black Sea port) on Monday, when the main talks held with the CCINA officials were aimed at the energy field.CCINA spokesperson Lucia Calenici informed in a press release that Ambassador Philippe Beaulne was accompanied by the commercial advisor of the Canadian Embassy to Romania Russell Merifield, and the Canadian ...
Chisalita (Romgaz): We have not opened talks to Imex Oil and Wintershall for gas import
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Romgaz has not opened negotiations for new contracts to import natural gas from Russia through the agency of the companies Imex Oil and Wintershall, although the current contracts expire in December 2012, Romgaz trading manager Dumitru Chisalita said on Tuesday. 'The two import contracts for natural gas expire on December 2012 but we have not opened the negotiation stage as we are setting ourselves a new marketing strategy and then we are going to decide if we opt out for ...
Hidroelectrica expecting to close 2011 on a profit
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Hidroelectrica is expecting to close 2011 on a profit, without the need to import energy, Hidroelectrica Director General Constantin Trihenea told a news conference on Tuesday.'All the heat plants are ready to cover the hydropower deficit. I do not think we will have to resort to energy imports. We hope to close the year on a profit,' said Trihenea.He added that Hidroelectrica may acquire, upon customers' demand, heat power to be supplied to compensate for the deficit of ...
Commission tables plan for a resource-efficient economy
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The European Commission unveiled plans Tuesday (20 September) to decouple the EU's economic growth from natural resource consumption, suggesting that the bloc's 27 governments sign up to a myriad of short- and long-term environmental targets by the end of 2013.The Commission's Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, adopted on 20 September, suggests introducing resource efficiency indicators and targets across the 27-nation bloc.Except for mandatory efficiency requirements on ...
Industry warns against end of oil refining in Europe
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The European oil industry rang the alarm Tuesday (20 September) on the impact of EU energy efficiency legislation on oil refining activities, warning of the end of the sector in Europe.Recent EU legislative proposals on energy efficiency pose "a substantial risk of leaving many regions and probably countries without indigenous refineries," warns a new report published by Europia, the European petroleum industry association.This may be good news for environmentalists and local ...
Reuters:Romania plans to sell copper mine
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Romania plans to make an announcement on the sale of state owned copper mine Cupru Min Abrud later this month via a tender, Victor Cazana, head of the industry privatisation office told Reuters. "We are at a stage where we are about to announce it, by the end of this month. We aim to sell the state's whole stake (of 100 percent) in Cupru Min at a tender," Cazana said. Deputy economy minister Claudiu Stafie has said he hoped the privatisation would be wrapped up by the end of ...
Price of hydroelectric energy for household consumers not to go up
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The issue to increase the tariff of electricity for household consumers is out of the question, although the share of energy production in hydropower stations in the national total has decreased by 5%, and by the year's end the decrease can reach 20%, said Dragos Zachia-Zlata, deputy general manager of Hidroelectrica. 'The increase in costs will be covered by producers, distributors, suppliers, the entire chain from production to end consumer. So far, it is very hard to make an ...
Government decides extending exploration period for Petrom-OMV on 10 perimetres
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Government decided to extend by three years the exploration period for some perimeters stipulated in the agreements signed with the Petrom-OMV company, Government's spokesperson Ioana Muntean mentioned.According to her, at the renegotiation, the explored areas were diminished by 30 percent.'The Government decided to extend by three years the exploration period within the oil exploration, development, exploitation agreements of Petrom OMV.We are talking about ...