(EnergyAsia, November 1 2015, Sunday) — Global oil demand growth will slow sharply to 1.2 million b/d next year after reaching what would be a five-year high of 1.77 million b/d in 2015, predicts the International Energy Agency (IEA)….
(EnergyAsia, October 31, 2015, Saturday) — Still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, the World Bank said Central Asia is facing “strong headwinds” from a set of new challenges brought on by the continuing weakness in oil and gas prices, Russia’s recession and worsening relations with the West, the slowdown…
(EnergyAsia, October 30 2015, Friday) — Two Canadian companies have made important progress in their respective projects to export gas products from British Columbia province to Asia….
(EnergyAsia, October 30 2015, Friday) — In their darkest moment in over two decades, Central Asia’s beleaguered economies may have found another white knight in Japanese Prime Minister…
(EnergyAsia, October 29 2015, Thursday) — Singapore’s Pavilion Energy said it has signed a 10-year agreement to procure liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russian gas giant Gazprom to support its trading and supply activities in Asia….
(EnergyAsia, October 28 2015, Wednesday) — Consultant Wood Mackenzie has more bad news for the already battered liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets: prices will be further tested by a deluge of new supply amid weak demand in China. In a report prepared for Gastech 2015 in Singapore, the UK firm said it expects producers to...
(EnergyAsia, October 27 2015, Tuesday) — One of Australia’s leading oil and gas companies, Santos Limited, said it is continuing a strategic review of its business after rejecting a buy-out offer of A$6.88 per share that values the beaten-down company’s value at A$7.14 billion. (US$1=A$1.38)….
(EnergyAsia, October 25 2015, Sunday) — Any hopes for an oil price rally in the remaining months of 2015 are being dashed by the continuing build in global stockpiles as production is still growing at a faster rate than consumption, said the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)….
(EnergyAsia, October 25 2015, Sunday) — Central Asia’s eight nations will continue to reel from the impact of weak oil prices, with little hope of their economies recovering to the levels before the collapse of the energy markets in mid-2014, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF)….
(EnergyAsia, October 23 2015, Friday) — UK major BP said it has signed an oil and gas framework agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and a 20-year deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China Huadian Corp worth US$10-billion. BP said it expanded an ongoing global partnership with CNPC by agreeing to jointly...
(EnergyAsia, October 21 2015, Wednesday) — US liquid fuels consumption will reach a seven-year high of 19.44 million b/d this year and rise further to 19.59 million b/d in 2016 on the back of the country’s continuing economic and employment growth, predicts the Energy Information Administration….
(EnergyAsia, October 1 2015, Thursday) — More than 1,000 top government officials and executives of oil and gas companies are expected to attend the 22nd Africa Oil Week and Africa Upstream Conference in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-30. Global Pacific & Partners and ITE Group plc will jointly host the landmark event that...
(EnergyAsia, October 1 2015, Wednesday) — Greenpeace celebrated a “huge victory” to protect the Arctic from hydrocarbon production and exploration when Royal Dutch Shell announced it would cease all work in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea that forms part of the region….
(EnergyAsia, October 1 2015, Thursday) — The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects the world’s oil surplus to continue widening this and next year as it trimmed its forecasts for demand slightly while raising supply in its September monthly report….
(EnergyAsia, October 1 2015, Thursday) — Singapore is inviting companies to tap a S$12 million fund to help its port develop the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a shipping fuel and remain the world’s top bunkering hub. (US$1=S$1.43). The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said its Maritime Innovation & Technology Fund...
(EnergyAsia, September 30 2015, Wednesday) — Amid the worst oil glut in over a decade, a Norwegian research firm wants the world to start worrying about possible oil price shocks….
(EnergyAsia, September 30 2015, Wednesday) — The oil markets will continue to pay for the past sins of overproduction as record-high inventories continue to offset the otherwise bullish impacts of strong demand growth and declining supply, judging from the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) monthly report….
(EnergyAsia, September 29 2015, Tuesday) — Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries said a subsidiary will lead a joint venture firm to build a 426MW plant in Bangladesh valued at US$390 million. The Bangladesh government awarded the build-own-operate contract to Sembcorp Utilities to develop the project in the Sirajganj district by 2018. To be fuelled primarily by natural...
(EnergyAsia, September 29 2015, Tuesday) — The world will have to brace for sharply reduced oil and gas investments in the long term as the industry slashes capital expenditure in response to protracted low prices, according to separate analysis by a US government agency and two private firms. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) said sustained...
(EnergyAsia, September 24 2015, Thursday) — Essay by Simon Mabon, Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University, UK, published from www.TheConversation.com. The violent civil war in Syria and rise of Islamic State (IS) has forced millions to flee their homes, cascading across Europe in search of safety. And yet, despite the crisis unfolding on its doorstep,...
(EnergyAsia, September 16 2015, Wednesday) — Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries said subsidiary Thermal Powertech Corporation India (TPCIL) has begun fully operating its 1,320MW coal-fired power plant in Nellore in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. The company recently started up the second 660-megawatt unit of the US$1.5 billion plant in the coastal town of Krishnapatnam to follow through...
(EnergyAsia, September 2 2015, Wednesday) — Crude oil prices ran out of steam as traders quickly cashed out on that brief 27% recovery over the last three days of August. North Sea Brent just about held onto US$50 a barrel while US WTI traded just above US$45 after both had sunk to their lowest levels…
(EnergyAsia, September 1 2015, Tuesday) — Having overshot its initial US$37 billion budget to build Australia’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, a Chevron-led consortium is also likely to miss its latest end-2015 start-up target for the same set of reasons: bad weather, labour disputes and equipment failure….
(EnergyAsia, August 31 2015, Monday) — The world will still face an oil supply glut even after adding nearly three million b/d to total consumption between last year and 2016, said the International Energy Agency (IEA)….
(EnergyAsia, August 31 2015, Monday) — After years of strong growth, US oil and liquids production will decline in 2016 to weaken the world’s supply increase, said the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its August monthly report….