(EnergyAsia, March 1 2016, Tuesday) — Low oil and gas prices, asset write-offs and a weaker local currency combined to sink Malaysian state energy firm Petronas’s after-tax profits by 56.3% to RM20.8 for 2015. Revenues were down 24.7% to RM247.7 billion while cashflow crashed by a third to RM69.6 billion, dragged down mostly by a…
(EnergyAsia, February 29 2016, Monday) — Australian upstream company Santos said it wrote off a further A$3.924 billion worth of assets after reporting a record loss of A$2.9 billion last year as oil and gas prices continued their rapid descent from mid-2014. (US$1=A$1.4). The tide of red ink flowed through from 2014 when the company…
(EnergyAsia, February 22 2016, Monday) — Despite being recently freed of most sanctions to trade with the world, Iran will be hard pressed to produce more than 500,000 b/d of crude oil this year owing to a combination of “technical and political hurdles”, said Moody’s Investor Service….
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2016, Thursday) — Five of China’s leading state-owned oil firms and some of their subsidiaries have been placed on review by Moody’s Investor Service for a possible downgrade of their current Aa3 credit ratings….
(EnergyAsia, February 16 2016, Tuesday) — Concluding their largest bilateral trade deal, Qatar will soon begin an annual supply of 3.75 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Pakistan over the next 15 years. State-owned Qatar Liquefied Gas Company or Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG firm with 42-million tons of production capacity, expects to...
(EnergyAsia, February 13 2016, Saturday) — Led by Japan, Asia’s use of an established crude oil-based formula to price its liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports will likely continue into the next decade, according to one of the region’s leading energy economists….
(EnergyAsia, February 12 2016, Friday) — For all its illustrious history as Asia’s oil centre, Singapore is still missing a vital piece in its quest to become a full-fledged energy trading hub: a successful futures exchange to support price discovery and regional paper trades….
(EnergyAsia, Singapore, February 2 2016, Tuesday) – Swiss chemical logistics firm Bertschi AG will invest another S$20 million in a dangerous goods warehouse to add to its newly opened S$45 million plant on Singapore’s oil and chemicals hub on Jurong Island. (US$1=S$1.42). Hans-Jörg Bertschi, President and CEO of Bertschi Holding AG, made the announcement for...
(EnergyAsia, February 1 2016, Monday) — Japan’s ailing energy-intensive economy continues to struggle for life despite the infusion of an unexpected windfall from prolonged weak oil and gas prices since mid-2014….
(EnergyAsia, January 28 2016, Thursday) — Singapore expects to start supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) as shipping fuel from 2017 following the first awards of licences to two operators, said the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). The agency announced that it has selected Singapore’s Pavilion Gas Pte Ltd, and a soon-to-be-established joint venture...
(EnergyAsia, January 25 2016, Monday) — The precarious fate of Japan’s nuclear power industry will cast an uncertain shadow over the country’s energy outlook for at least the next 15 years, suggests its state planning agency. The bulk of Japan’s nuclear power plants, which used to supply nearly 30% of its electricity, remains idled after…
(EnergyAsia, January 21 2016, Thursday) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and China’s President Xi Jinping have officially launched a 400,000 b/d oil refinery in Yanbu city jointly owned by their countries’ state energy firms that will help deepen China’s involvement in the Middle East….
(EnergyAsia, January 20 2016, Wednesday) — China’s slowing economy has been decisively confirmed by a slew of negative industrial data for 2015. Coal production, imports, consumption were all down along with electricity, cement and steel production, according to the Australia-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Citing official Chinese sources, the institute...
(EnergyAsia, January 17 2016, Sunday) — Japan’s JERA Co Inc has set its sights on meeting at least half its 40 million tonnes/year of liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases through spot trades to take advantage of expected low prices over the next few years….
(EnergyAsia, January 15 2016, Friday) — India’s Petronet LNG Limited has received the first cargo from RasGas Company Ltd under their new sales and purchase agreement (SPA) signed on December 31 2015, said the Qatar state-owned company. The LNG cargo was delivered by the Al Thumama (Q-Flex) vessel to Dahej LNG Terminal in India’s Gujarat...
(EnergyAsia, January 15 2016, Friday) — Weighed down by a first decline in Asian consumption after years of strong growth, global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) fell two percent to 245 million tonnes last year, said UK consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. A supply glut opened up as production rose by four million tonnes to...