The NYMEX June natural gas futures contract settled 4.6 cents higher at $4.405/MMBtu on Friday as the market consolidated ahead of the holiday weekend and eyed forecasts for hotter than normal weather into June. "Despite the short-term ...
Tags: Natural Gas, oil prices
Viewing that distributed PV system installations (mainly rooftop) in China have so far lagged behind schedule due to high risks, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has arranged insurance companies to provide relevant ...
Germany's power plants generated 5.4% less electricity in the first quarter, with output from all conventional sources falling, but coal- and gas-fired power plants recorded the biggest declines, German utility lobby group BDEW said ...
Loadings of Doba, Chad's only export grade crude oil, will be set at 3.8 million barrels in July, up 33.33% from June, according to a copy of the country's loading schedule seen Thursday by Platts. Four cargoes of 950,000 barrels each ...
The US shale gas and oil boom of recent years is "very profound, but sometimes taken out of proportion," International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol said at the Flame conference in Amsterdam Tuesday. Birol said that of the ...
Shunfeng Photovoltaic International, a China-based maker of solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, solar cells and PV modules as well as EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor for PV power-generating stations, will expand ...
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SNEC (2014) International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition [SNEC PV POWER EXPO] will be held in Shanghai, China, on May 20 - 22, 2014. It was initiated by Chinese Renewable Energy Society (CRES), Chinese ...
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South Korea's state-owned Korea Gas Corp imported 12.61 million mt of LNG in the first quarter, up 0.5% from 12.55 million mt a year earlier, the company said in a statement Wednesday. All of the volumes were imported under long-term ...
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South Korea will seek to import more shale gas-based LNG from North America to meet rising power demand amid tighter environmental regulations, the deputy energy minister told Platts Friday. "Natural gas as a source of power generation ...
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Spain's six LNG terminals reloaded 8.39 TWh of LNG onto nine tankers in April, a 277% year-on-year increase, data published Friday by gas grid operator Enagas showed. Spain's six LNG terminals also unloaded a total of 24 tankers with 17.4 ...
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Motiv Engines has introduced its second generation engine concept known as the MkII Clarke-Brayton Engine for the heavy-duty vehicles powered by liquid natural gas (LNG). The new concept engine is powered by diesel, as the compay's ...
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Shale gas regulations should be streamlined and the government should lend its weight to industry attempts at producing gas through hydraulic fracturing, the Economic Affairs Committee of the UK's upper house of parliament said. Launching ...
Tags: Shale gas, Energy security
France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year, noting that the first quarter results are in line with the expectations, with an improved overall financial performance. In the ...
Listed Japanese companies as a whole are expected to maintain profit growth in the fiscal year ending March 2015, but management, concerned by the recent sales tax hike and emerging-market slowdowns, have issued conservative earnings ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Despite shutdown of nuclear power plants, Japan is not expected to raise its thermal coal imports significantly over the next five-seven years, as existing coal-fired power plants are running at high rates and new facilities are still on ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, nuclear power plants