Russia increased LNG exports 38.5% year-on-year in the first half of 2013, to 5 million mt, according to data released Tuesday by the Far East branch of Russia's customs service. Russia exports LNG from the Sakhalin 2 LNG plant in ...
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The response of Asian and global markets to US liquefied natural gas exports will be much stronger and will happen much sooner than many anticipate, putting strong downward pressure on Asian prices, Rice University fellow Kenneth Medlock ...
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Australia's Woodside Petroleum is remaining tight-lipped on the impact of the Israeli cabinet's decision to allocate up to 50% of any gas field's reserves to the domestic market. "We look forward to considering the detail of the gas ...
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The head of the International Energy Agency warned Thursday that theshale gas revolution in North America was unlikely to be replicated elsewherein the world, and that its effect would be more likely felt through anincrease in LNG supplies ...
Even with the shale revolution leading to booming US oil production, the head of the US Energy Information Administration said Wednesday he does not expect the country to become an oil exporter any time soon. Beyond the political ...
Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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The UK's BG Group expects the Egyptian government to continue to allow LNG exports from the country despite the current gas shortages on the domestic market, BG CEO Chris Finlayson said Thursday. Egypt is a key market for BG and a fall in ...
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While US policymakers, legislators and others are focused on whether the fundamentals of US gas market would change significantly if large volumes of LNG are exported, there are emerging questions about the federal government's ability to ...
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Russian gas giant Gazprom held discussions Wednesday with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) on expansion of energy cooperation, with joint design and construction of a nationwide gas grid for Japan among the issues on ...
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Oil-linked prices for liquefied natural gas are not rational given the diverse sources of supplies coming from North America and Australia or via pipeline from Russia, the chief executive of Japan's largest utility, Tokyo Gas, said ...
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President Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, on Tuesday reiterated the Obama administration's position that decisions to license liquefied natural gas exports from the US should be based on a transparent, analytic ...
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US oil, natural gas and coal industries are bracing for the release of new standards that could derail, postpone or at least create new legal hurdles for some of the country's largest planned energy projects, including interstate pipelines, ...
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The US energy industry must vigorously oppose efforts to restrict exports of liquefied natural gas, ExxonMobil Chemical President Stephen Pryor said Wednesday at the IHS World Petrochemical Conference. As the US Department of Energy ...
Russia should maintain Gazprom's monopoly on exports of Russian gas to Europe but allow other companies to export LNG to rapidly growing markets of the Asia-Pacific region, energy minister Alexander Novak said Saturday. As Gazprom has the ...
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