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New York, Oct. 3: A leading Iranian nuclear envoy has suggested that his country could reconsider its uranium enrichment program if it gets cast-iron guarantees of regular international fuel supplies for its nuclear power plants.

"We are going to continue as long as there is no legally binding internationally recognized instrument for assurance of supply," said Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

However, he declined to clarify whether that meant that Iran would halt its enrichment program in return for such international guarantees, suggesting it might have to continue at a diminished level in case the outside supply stops.

From latest developments, it has been revealed that State-owned NHPC, a hydroelectric power generating company, may delay its initial public offer (IPO) of 167 crore equity shares planned in October, due to market volatility. 

According to official sources, as the market conditions look uncertain for the IPO, so NHPC board has decided to review plan, before the launch. NHPC had earlier scheduled to hit the market between October 13-17. 

Dusseldorf - E. ON, one of Germany's biggest energy companies, said Thursday it had bought one quarter of the one of the world's greatest natural gas fields, at Yuzhno Russkoye in Russia.

The deal, which follows years of tortuous negotiations, was signed with gas monopoly Gazprom at a meeting of Russian and German government leaders on Thursday in the Russian city of St Petersburg.

Another big German company, BASF, has already bought a quarter of the same field.

E. ON controls a large part of Germany's gas and electricity supplies.

San Francisco - Web giant Google unveiled a new national energy plan for the US Wednesday that it said would largely wean the country of fossil fuels by 2030.

The 4.4-trillion-dollar plan was developed by Google's philanthropic arm Google. org, which predicted that the county would reap net savings of 1 trillion dollars over the idea's 22-year term.