Energy / Natural Gas

Aug 03, 2018 at 17:02 | Robert Rapier

Data from the 2018 BP Statistical Review of World Energy show that last year the U.S. maintained a healthy lead as the global natural gas powerhouse. In 2017, the U.S. produced an average of…

Jul 30, 2018 at 11:55 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Japan’s largest exploration and production company, Inpex, said on Monday that it had started producing gas at the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which has cost US$40…

Jul 26, 2018 at 11:00 | Tim Daiss

In a breakthrough in EU-U.S. trade talks, President Trump and European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed yesterday in a meeting at the White House to suspend new trade…

Jul 20, 2018 at 14:26 | Tsvetana Paraskova

The relatively young industry of projects using floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) has enjoyed boom years since 2015 as many new importers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) used these…

Jul 20, 2018 at 14:23 | Viktor Katona

Despite significantly weakened interest towards internal political dealings in Ukraine itself, the issue of Ukraine’s gas transit remains a much-debated issue of the European energy community (understandably, since European countries…

Jul 17, 2018 at 10:12 | Tim Daiss

In the much-heralded meeting yesterday between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Trump said that the U.S. will “compete successfully” against Russia in Europe’s natural…

Jul 17, 2018 at 08:28 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russian President Vladimir Putin has assured U.S. President Donald Trump that Moscow will keep the transit route of natural gas to Europe via Ukraine, Russia’s president said at the…

Jul 16, 2018 at 13:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Russian gas giant Gazprom is doubling down on the vast natural gas reserves on and offshore the Yamal peninsula, an Arctic lowland region in northwestern Siberia. The Yamal peninsula is…

Jul 16, 2018 at 13:22 | Viktor Katona

Russia’s energy ties to China have been discussed at length throughout our website – the construction of the 38 BCm per year Power of Siberia gas pipeline, seaborne sales of…

Jul 06, 2018 at 14:28 | Tim Daiss

Several oil majors, including Royal Dutch Shell and BP, are boosting their share of natural gas output. A Bloomberg report said these two oil companies, by increasing gas production,…

Jul 05, 2018 at 13:04 | Irina Slav

If fuels were actors, LNG would be the rising star. Everyone wants LNG: it’s cheaper and cleaner than oil, and it is abundant enough to remain attractive in the long…

Jul 04, 2018 at 10:56 | Rystad Energy

In April 2017, Qatar lifted the North Field natural gas production moratorium that had been in place since 2005. This will allow Qatargas to increase production from the world’s largest…

Jul 03, 2018 at 12:35 | Vanand Meliksetian

The Netherlands has been the source of cheap energy for northwest Europe for the past decades. The discovery of the Groningen gas field, the 9th largest in the world, provided…

Jun 28, 2018 at 16:46 | Tim Daiss

There has never been any love lost between Poland and Russia. Angst between the two countries dates back to Soviet dominance over Poland which started during World War II. Post…

Jun 28, 2018 at 15:55 | Irina Slav

This week’s World Gas Conference in Washington hosted a bunch of upbeat natural gas executives and analysts that expect an exceptionally bright future for the bridge fuel of the future,…

Jun 28, 2018 at 12:02 | Cyril Widdershoven

One of the world’s most prolific gas regions, the East Mediterranean, is currently witnessing extremely high activity. In addition to Egypt’s success with the giant offshore Zohr gas field and…

Jun 27, 2018 at 12:53 | Vanand Meliksetian

The unprecedented economic development of China created serious environmental problems starting in December 1978 after Deng Xiaoping’s ‘opening up policy’. The Asian country transformed from a developing nation into a…

Jun 26, 2018 at 13:11 | Tim Daiss

The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its Gas 2018 annual report on Tuesday that China will become the world’s top natural gas importer, boosted by liquefied natural…

Jun 22, 2018 at 17:08 | Viktor Katona

The June 12 Trump-Kim summit in Singapore has had an overall positive effect on the oil industry, cooling down expectations about the imminence of a major conflict driven by the…

Jun 21, 2018 at 15:52 | Irina Slav

U.S. natural gas production will increase by 10 percent this year alone and by as much as 60 percent by 2037, a new report from IHS Markit has forecast.…