"Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the Russian and Egyptian teams, the challenging task of documentation agreement was promptly accomplished, taking into account the technical requirements of the EPC Ccontract and adaptation to the site conditions," added Grigory Sosnin, ASE's director of the El-Dabaa NPP construction project.

"Westinghouse looks forward to presenting the Polish government with the most advanced and competitive technology offer for this very important project," said Elias Gedeon, senior vice president of commercial operations at Westinghouse.

The Algeria national oil and gas company Sonatrach extracted 176 Mtoe of hydrocarbon in 2020 (-6%),

Brent ended the session up 37 cents, or 0.5% at $75.13 a barrel, WTI settled up 49 cents, or 0.7% at $73.47 a barrel.

The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 1.0% after ending Wednesday with its fifth straight quarter of gains, and was set for its best session in more than a month.

In the report, Nuclear Energy APPG says the nuclear industry is ideally placed to support the government’s twin goals of levelling up the UK economy and cutting emissions

The annual E-FUSION (Emirati French Industrial Supply Chain Initiative for Nuclear) event was launched by ENEC, EDF and GIFEN (French Nuclear Cluster) in 2019, aiming to develop new Franco-Emirati commercial relations in the nuclear sector.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 6.7 million barrels from the previous week to 452.3 million barrels.

Brent was up 25 cents, or 0.3% at $75.01 a barrel, WTI was up 41 cents, or 0.6% at $73.39 a barrel.

Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachov said the Kudankulam construction project has for many years been a symbol of close cooperation between Russia and India.