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Daily: Crude oil prices soar across both continents on strong equities, Ukraine unrest
Brent crude oil prices climbed on Tuesday on violent rapports in Crimea, while the American benchmark skyrocketed to its highest level in a week on strong build in U.S. equities. Brent crude oil rose by 55 cents to settle at $106.79 per barrel, after touching a six-week low on Monday. Meanwhile, its equivalent WTI oil benchmark closed $1.62 higher at $99.70 per barrel.
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Poland: a coal-fired unit of about $1 billion to be built by Hitachi-led consortium
Hitachi-led consortium won a contract of about 3.25 billion zlotys ($1 billion dollars) from Poland’s main utility group PGE to build a coal-fired unit of a capacity of 430-450 MW, according to a member of the conglomerate. The unit is likely to be constructed at PGE’s Turow plant in south-eastern Poland.
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Bulgaria: ultimatum to power distributors to pay back debt
An ultimatum has been given by Bulgaria to three foreign-owned energy distributors until Wednesday to reimburse the debt they have with state power supplier NEK, otherwise they may lose their licenses.
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EDF UK: returns on nuclear agreement likely to be much higher than usual
The EDF’s first nuclear reactor in Britain might generate for the French utility and the investors two-decade profits, supported by government, expected to be much higher than returns from other projects, as stated in a report.
read more... 18/03/2014
Gazprom intends to make contract adjustments so as to keep European customers
Russia’s major natural gas producer Gazprom plans to make modifications to contracts so as to preserve its European clients in spite of western sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, as stated in the newspaper Vedomosti on Monday.
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