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Although a much-needed step to tap into a freshly opened-up area — Egypt and Saudi Arabia demarcated their Red Sea territories only in — Cairo failed to market all the 10 blocks that were on offer. Related: The Future Of U. There are many reasons to be excited about new Eastern Mediterranean acreage being offered, especially blocks that are so close to the supergiant Zohr field and might potentially utilize the infrastructure already in place, however, it needs to be said that Egyptian authorities have done their utmost to promote investment into heretofore untapped frontiers.

Having demarcated the Saudi-Egyptian maritime border, Egypt has signed a delimitation covenant with Greece in October and sorted out most of maritime disputes with Israel. Moscow 21 July Moscow Russian nuclear power plants. Bilateral agreements on the peaceful use of atomic energy have been signed with Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and other countries:.

Petersburg Tel. Lenin Str. Moscow Tel. Bolshaya Ordynka Str. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute www. Under these circumstances, the structural policy for the energy sector over the next 10—15 years includes the following: Enhancement of the efficiency of natural gas utilization and increase in its share of domestic consumption, especially in ecologically strained regions; In depth processing and comprehensive utilization of hydrocarbon raw materials; Enhancement of coal quality, as well as stabilization of coal production volumes; Intensification of local and renewable energy resource development hydropower and wind power, peat, etc.

The new technological energy policy is oriented towards the following: Radical enhancement of both the cost effectiveness and energy efficiency of all stages of the extraction, conversion, distribution and utilization of energy resources; Effective decentralization of the energy supply; Ecological and accident safety, as well as reliability of energy supply; Development of qualitatively new technologies for the stable evolution of the power industry: ecologically clean coal fired power plants, safe NPPs, efficient processes for the utilization of new sources of power, etc.

TABLE 1. Calculation of EJ equivalent for renewables is expressed for a period of 10 years. TABLE 2. Electricity system and decision making process The Russian electric power system consists of both interconnected unified and disconnected parts. Unified Energy System UES is a unique system which supports economic benefits for both the people and industry of the Russian Federation. A total of 3. The organizational basis of UES comprises the following: Seventy-four power suppliers that supply electric and heat power to consumers throughout the Russian Federation; Thirty-four large electric power stations that operate independently on the federal national wholesale electric power market; Over organizations providing technological backup and development for UES, and which ensure the viability of the industry as a whole.

Electricity exports Electricity supplies from the Russian Federation abroad amounted to TABLE 3. Below is a chronological outline of the development of nuclear power in the Russian Federation. In addition, Rosatom offers products and services in the following areas: Nuclear medicine ; Non-nuclear equipment manufacturing ; Nuclear icebreaker fleet ; Wind energy ; Promising materials and technologies ; New business areas.

Figure 1 shows the structure of the nuclear industry in the Russian Federation. TABLE 5. Source: RDS-2 —: data not available. TABLE 6. TABLE 7. Basic principles of the schemes and programmes for long term electric power development are the following: Efficiency; Application of new technological solutions; Coordination of schemes and programmes of long term development of electric power related technologies; Publicity and openness of public investment strategies and solutions.

Rosenergoatom is entrusted to perform the main functions listed below. Ensuring the safe operation of online NPPs, namely the following: Development and implementation of NPP safety culture; Performance of continuous surveillance over NPP safety; Collection and analysis of information on NPP accidents, equipment failures and human error for the development of corrective measures; Management of physical protection and fire prevention at NPPs; Development and management of emergency preparedness plans.

Support of NPP operations, including the following: Providing NPPs with necessary material and technical resources; Development and performance control for the measures aimed at enhancement of NPP reliability, quality and safe operation; Development of normative documentation and scientific support of NPP operation and of operation licensing; Operational personnel recruiting, initial and continuous training; International activities; Legal support.

Nuclear power development, such as the following: Developing and implementing NPP construction and commissioning programmes; Modernizing and upgrading operating NPPs; Issuing resolutions regarding lifetime extension of operating NPPs; Designing and developing activities and NPP construction licensing; Participating in resolution of social issues concerning nuclear industry employees; Providing the general public with information on the issues of NPP ecological safety.

The main organization involved in the process of decommissioning NPPs is Rosenergoatom. Uranium mining and milling The Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Union has an annual capacity of t U using open pit, underground and in situ leach mining extraction methods. Uranium conversion Rosatom operates the Angarsk and Tomsk conversion plants conversion to UF 6 , which have a total annual capacity of 30 t U.

Enrichment process The first civil uranium enrichment plant in the Russian Federation started operation in , at Ekaterinburg. Reprocessing The reprocessing option is the chosen method for dealing with spent reactor fuel with the exception of spent fuel originating from RBMKs, which is disposed of.

Rosatom cooperates with other countries in many fields of activities, such as the following: Nuclear physics; Fundamental research into properties of matter; Controlled thermonuclear fusion; Physics of semiconductors and high temperature superconductivity; Isotopes; Technologies of elementary particle accelerators and electrophysical equipment; Atomic energy generation and nuclear fuel cycles; Radioactive waste management; Environmental protection. Regulatory authority s The Russian Federal Supervision of Nuclear and Radiological Safety Gosatomnadzor is the nuclear regulatory body of the Russian Federation, with headquarters in Moscow and seven regional offices throughout the country.

The following regulations determine the procedure for NPP licensing: Regulations on the order of special permission, issued by Gosatomnadzor for examination of design and other materials and documents, substantiating safety of nuclear and radiologically dangerous installations and works: RD The stages of obtaining the temporary permission licence for NPP unit operation can be represented in brief as follows: Licence demand submission of application documents ; Gosatomnadzor decision on the required control; Analysis of substantiating materials for demand; Inspection of the NPP; Conclusion of examination of substantiating materials; Conclusion of NPP inspection; General conclusion of obtaining temporary permission licence ; Licence temporary permission.

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Annual Report Fossil fuels. Other renewable. Total amount in exajoules EJ. Final Energy consumption [PJ]. Coal, Lignate and Peat. Natural gas. Bioenergy and Waste. Electricity production GWh. Startup of the first industrial research nuclear reactor.

Startup of the first NPP in Obninsk. Commissioning of the first commercial water cooled, graphite moderated channel type RBMK reactor at Leningrad. Completion of the first nuclear central heating and power plant at Bilibino, in the far northeastern part of the Russian Federation. Startup of the RT-1 plant for reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Startup of a commercial power generating unit powered by a BN fast reactor at Beloyarsk.

Decision making on production of the first batch of pilot uranium—plutonium fuel assemblies. A process to fabricate weapons grade plutonium based mixed oxide fuel is devised and brought into commercial practice at the Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors State Research Centre of the Russian Federation. Establishment of the Information and Analytical Centre of Minatom to ensure information and analytical support of the Ministry administration and of the Industry Emergency Commission, both under normal operation and in case of emergency at the industry enterprises.

Commissioning of the Kursk NPP 2 power unit, upon completion of overhaul, with monitoring of all fuel channels and with their partial substitution according to the results. Start of implementation of wide scale measures to accelerate use of nuclear powered submarines removed from military service and to accelerate ecological recovery of sites of dangerous installations belonging to the Ministry of Defence, handed over to Minatom in compliance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Nuclear Power of Russia — 50 Years of History. Baltic NPP: Construction of the nuclear island foundation starts. Beloyarsk-4 starts first criticality programme at BN WANO conducts pre-startup peer review of Beloyarsk Rostov NPP: power unit No. Rostov NPP: The pre-commissioning of the nuclear reactor fuel loading machine starts at power block No.

Rosenergoatom: The specialists of the floating nuclear power unit Akademik Lomonosov prepare for flushing of reactor unit systems. Carnegie Middle East Center. Issues Projects Regions Blogs. April 18, Al-Hayat. Print Page. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.

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Mozambique already has the presence of several multinational oil sector companies, mainly in the Rovuma basin, an area rich in natural gas. Despite growing international pressure to abandon the use of fossil fuels, the Mozambican government argues that natural gas will be a crucial source for the energy transition as it is the least polluting of the fossil fuels.