(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….

(EnergyAsia, August 17 2016, Wednesday) — India has completely opened up its long-protected oil and gas sector to foreign investment, marking a major breakthrough in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign to reform the country’s under-performing economy….

(EnergyAsia, August 15 2016, Monday) — Indian state oil and gas firms are waiting for an opportunity to buy into Rosneft even as they are completing the purchase of a combined 38.9% stake in an East Siberian oil field from the Russian energy giant….

(EnergyAsia, July 20 2016, Wednesday) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it may return to Angola in October to resume discussions after the financially-strapped government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos rejected an offer of a loan bailout package….

(EnergyAsia, July 17 2016, Sunday) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it is lending Iraq US$5.4-billion to help the war-torn country stave off economic collapse from the “double shocks” of the oil price collapse and on-going military conflicts….

(EnergyAsia, July 10 2016, Sunday) — Nigeria is hoping to revive the fortunes of its battered oil industry following last week’s memorandum of understating (MOU) to secure US$80 billion worth of energy investments from China….

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2016, Tuesday) — Thanks to its shale revolution, the US now has the world’s largest recoverable crude oil reserves of 264 billion barrels, said Norwegian consulting firm Rystad Energy….

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2016, Tuesday) — Two of Saudi Arabia’s largest state-owned companies said they have agreed to conduct a joint feasibility study to develop a fully integrated complex in the kingdom to convert crude oil into chemicals and high-end products….