(EnergyAsia, March 17 2017, Friday) — Kazakhstan’s economy will continue to recover with growth projected at 2.5% in 2017 to follow through last year’s 1% expansion and 2015’s 3.7% contraction, predicts the International Monetary Fund (IMF)….
(EnergyAsia, March 8, 2017, Wednesday) — Australia has been importing petroleum products at a rate faster than its oil companies have been shutting down refining capacity this decade, an analysis of official data has shown….
(EnergyAsia, March 3 2017, Friday) — Saudi Arabia has handed Malaysia a major diplomatic and economic prize by agreeing to pump in a total of US$7 billion in a US$27 billion oil refinery-petrochemical complex that had been struggling to attract investors….
(EnergyAsia, February 18, 2017, Saturday) — Is China’s US$10.5-trillion economy becoming less dependent on oil and smokestack industries?…
(EnergyAsia, February 13, 2017, Monday) — Helped by increased shipping traffic, Singapore said its sale of bunker fuel surged by nearly 7.7% to a record 48.61 million tonnes last year from 45.16 million tonnes in 2015….
(EnergyAsia, February 9, 2017, Thursday) — The Indian government plans to merge some or all of its 13 largest state-owned oil and gas companies with the objective of boosting the country’s long-term energy security….
(EnergyAsia, February 8, 2017, Wednesday) — Abu Dhabi, a member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will soon begin shipping some of its crude oil for stockpiling in India’s Mangalore strategic petroleum terminal on the western coastal state of Karnataka….
(EnergyAsia, February 7 2017, Tuesday) — The Indian government has announced plans to build two oil storage terminals with a combined 10-million-tonne capacity that will boost the national total to 15.33 million tonnes….
(EnergyAsia, November 24 2016, Thursday) — Curtis Island on Australia’s Queensland state has become the country’s main liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub with the full operation of six trains on its three export-oriented projects from last month….
(EnergyAsia, November 22 2016, Tuesday) — Canada will begin shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia from its first dedicated export plant in 2020, according to Vancouver-based owner and operator Woodfibre LNG Limited….
(EnergyAsia, November 19 2016, Saturday) — Australia expects its earnings from liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to surge by 41.1% to A$23.4 billion in the current fiscal year to June 30 2017, thanks to a combination of expanded plant capacity and higher prices….
(EnergyAsia, November 13 2016, Sunday) — Asia’s ‘Big Four’ economies of China, Japan, India and South Korea will continue to dominate the region’s liquefied natural markets (LNG) over the next 15 years, according to a recent study by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)….
(EnergyAsia, October 26 2016, Wednesday) — Asia’s crude oil demand and refinery throughput will grow at a slower rate through 2018 from 2015 and 2016, predicts US consultant ESAI Energy….
(EnergyAsia, October 26 2016, Wednesday) — Asia’s mostly energy-deficit economies are watching nervously as crude oil prices continue to defy bearish forecasts in recently reaching their highest levels in nearly a year….
(EnergyAsia, October 21 2016, Friday) — Australia’s petroleum trade will remain a tale of two opposing trends for the rest of the current fiscal year ending June 30 2017: falling crude and condensate exports, and rising product imports….
(EnergyAsia, October 20 2016, Thursday) — The geopolitics of the international oil trade are about to be redrawn with a consortium led by Russia’s Rosneft PJSC making a proposed US$12.9 billion purchase of India’s privately-owned Essar Oil Ltd in the biggest corporate deal between the two countries….
(EnergyAsia, October 18 2016, Tuesday) — India expects Saudi Arabia and the UAE to join Iran in storing crude oil at its newly launched strategic stockpile terminal in Mangalore in Karnataka state….
(EnergyAsia, October 17 2016, Monday) — With a huge sigh of relief, the Kazakhstan government announced last week that the country’s much-delayed giant Kashagan oilfield has exported its first cargo after resuming production on October 12….
(EnergyAsia, October 12 2016, Wednesday) — Asia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) market is undergoing massive restructuring brought on by surplus production capacity, pricing competition, the rise of spot trading, slowing demand growth and geopolitical manoeuvring….
(EnergyAsia, October 7 2016, Friday) — China’s increased oil buying to stock up its strategic petroleum reserves may have kept crude prices from collapsing over the last eight months, said analysts….
(EnergyAsia, October 4 2016, Tuesday) — Crude oil prices rebounded to their highest levels in nearly two months following the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)’s surprise announcement on September 28 that its members would cut production….
(EnergyAsia, October 2 2016, Sunday) — The Canadian government and Malaysian state energy firm Petronas are playing a game of giving each other “conditional” approvals that will further delay the construction of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the north-western coast of British Columbia province….
(EnergyAsia, August 28 2016, Sunday) — Confident that crude prices will remain low for some time, India is pushing ahead to build another giant oil refinery that will boost the nation’s total annual capacity by more than a quarter to 290 million tonnes….
(EnergyAsia, August 21 2016, Sunday) — Having never really dawned on India, the “Golden Age” of natural gas as coined by the International Energy Agency (IEA), could yet bypass the world’s third largest energy consumer altogether….
(EnergyAsia, August 18 2016, Thursday) — India faces a long and arduous battle to drastically reform its under-performing, heavily-shackled energy sector needed to support the long-term growth of its economy, said analysts….