Hess Corp. and North Dakota officials gathered Monday to mark the recent completion of an expansion of the company's natural gas processing plant that will help cut the amount of gas production wasted through flaring and boost NGL ...
Tags: natural gas, pipeline
GDF Suez has signed a sales and purchase heads of agreement with Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power to deliver 270,000 mt/year of LNG over a 20-year period starting in 2018 from the planned Cameron LNG plant in the US, the French ...
Tags: LNG, Tohoku Electric
Japan Petroleum Exploration plans to start drilling Japan's first horizontal shale exploration well at its onshore Fukumezawa oil field in Akita prefecture in the northwest for about one month from May 22, a company official said Tuesday. ...
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 ...
Tags: Shale Gasc, LNG
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
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
"We had a good start to the year in our chemicals business and in the Agricultural Solutions segment. We sold more. This more than compensated for the negative effects on sales from the comparatively weak U.S. dollar and currencies in ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, Oil, Gas
BASF is evaluating an investment in a world-scale methane-to-propylene complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The on-purpose production of propylene to supply the company's North American operations would allow BASF to take advantage of low gas ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, BASF
U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil, and most of the world’s other major economies. So says a new private study, which found that rising wages and higher ...
Tags: Chinese electricity
UK onshore explorer Egdon Resources said Friday it could have 18 Tcf of gas initially in place in shale gas reserves in its licenses within the Bowland-Hodder shale sequence in northern England. That is equivalent to around 510 billion ...
Tags: shale gas, UK gas consumption
UK shale gas exploration and production could generate a GBP33 billion ($55 billion) investment boom, according to a report published by the UK shale lobby group UK Onshore Operators Group. Drafted by EY -- formerly Ernst & Young -- the ...
State-owned PetroChina has hiked its shale gas production target significantly and now expects to produce 2.6 billion cubic meters/year next year, a senior executive was reported as saying Monday. This is an increase from an earlier ...
Tags: PetroChina, Shale Gas
Gas buyers in Asia are facing the same problems of high prices and a monopolistic market that their counterparts in Europe faced a decade or so ago, but there is no equivalent regulatory body that can force suppliers to change their ...
Tags: Gas Markets, Europe's Dilemma
MHI receives order for very large LPG carrier from Astomos Energy, identical to ship type ordered late last year Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a ...
Tags: LPG Carrier, MHI, Ship Type
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, Sinopec, said Monday it expects its Fuling shale gas project in Chongqing, central China, to reach production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters/year during 2017, up from 600 million cu m/year currently. ...