Placing a major new plant in Mariupol would provide a big boost to the town, a key forepost in the Donbass conflict and scene of major shelling in early 2015.

Zelensky raged against U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to abandon sanctions against the pipeline and begged the U.S. leader to meet him before a Russia-U.S summit in Geneva on June 16.

BP expects to discover oil reserves at SWAP to compensate for a decline in oil production at its major project in Azerbaijan - the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli.

Uzpromstroybank's privatisation is the latest in a series of steps taken by the Central Asian country to attract the foreign investors it once viewed as a threat.

Basisbank is ranked the fourth by total assets among 15 Georgian banks with 2.007 billion lari ($627 million) assets.

The $860 million plant is expected to produce 815 million cubic meters of commercial natural gas and 119,000 tonnes of liquefied gas.