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Skolkovo Foundation greenlights £9.3M international consortium to make oil refining in Russia more efficient and sustainable

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The Center will be funded by the Skolkovo Foundation and BP Russia. This success is possible because of a close cooperation of global leaders in research on heat exchange and catalysis processes—Imperial College London and Boreskov Institute of Catalysis—with active involvement from British Petroleum.

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Estonian PPP GoSwift wins global Transport Award for smart border crossing point service; traffic queue management

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An innovative solution for managing traffic queues at international borders is the winner of the 2015 Transport Achievement Award offered by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. The service was developed as a response to kilometer-long queues of vehicles waiting to cross the EU border from Estonia into Russia.

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Toyota introduces New Global Architecture development framework; 3 new front-wheel-drive platforms

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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has introduced a new development framework, the Toyota New Global Architecture. TMC will initiate the Toyota New Global Architecture with three front-wheel-drive platforms. Vehicle development for the Lexus brand will be promoted based on its unified global branding.

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Rosneft and BP form global strategic alliance; share swap and a focus on the Arctic shelf

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International oil and gas major BP and Russian state-owned Rosneft have a formed a strategic global alliance, creating the first major equity-linked partnership between an international and a national oil company. Rosneft is Russia’s leading oil producing company. It produces oil in all key regions of Russia.

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Ukraine Scrubbing Nuclear Agencies of Russian Influence

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The silence and inaction of the international nuclear community paves the way to World War III, to a global nuclear disaster, and the collapse of energy systems.” The director general of the Rivne plant, Pavlo Pavlyshyn, provided insight into fears of "internal" attacks during a recently-posted interview with an American journalist.

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Rosneft and ExxonMobil enter strategic partnership for development of Arctic and Black Sea resources, expand technology sharing and implement joint international projects; $3.2B exploration program planned

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Rosneft and ExxonMobil have executed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement under which the companies plan to undertake joint exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources in Russia, the United States and other countries throughout the world, and commence technology and expertise sharing activities. Rosneft and BP. tcm of gas.

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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. Not so in China, India, and Russia. Natural uranium is composed of only 0.7

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