Lukoil doesn’t plan to send pipeline oil shipments to Germany in April, citing unidentified oil traders. The company has appointed seven banks to arrange a $1 billion syndicated loan for “general corporate purposes”. Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service plans by May to draft amendments to its gas export law that would allow independent gas producers to participate in natural gas exports, which are currently exclusively controlled by Gazprom. Safe Technologies Inc. has signed a contract with TNK-BP for design and construction of a waste treatment complex to keep in line with Kyoto Protocol.