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The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), and the National Agency of Energy on March 13, 2012 jointly published the first five-year plan for development of shale gas in China for 2011–2015. Production targets are...
A new gas deal between Turkmenistan and China suggests that Beijing is seeking to steal a march on both Russia and Europe for Turkmen gas supplies. Further signs of an eastward shift by Turkmenistan could have a profound impact on regional energy geopolitics, but there may be less to the latest news...
Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky has said that the country will diversify its gas supply to more Asian markets, the RIA Novosti news agency has reported. The decision to expand more into the Asian-Pacific region came as a result of the Third Energy Package, Mr. Yanovsky said. The Third...
China Begins to Tap Its Shale Gas, Despite Daunting Technological, Environmental Hurdles By JOEL KIRKLAND of ClimateWire in CHENGDU, China A convoy of white vans barreled down a dusty road three hours south of this provincial capital in late September. Lush valleys were drying out after another...
Russia and China were already negotiating a natural gas pipeline deal in the mid-1990s. In the Eastern Plan, a line from the Sakhalin region in eastern Russia would deliver Russian natural gas into northeastern China. By 2006, however, talks had shifted to the Western Plan, which would pipe gas from...
Eni SpA has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. or Sinopec, increasing its ties to China and its growing interest in unconventional gas.ANSA cited Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni as saying that Eni was particularly interested in the development of shale gas in China.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has completed an initial assessment that suggests shale gas resources, which have recently provided a major boost to U.S. natural gas production, are also available in other world regions.EIA sponsored Advanced Resources International, Inc., to assess 48 gas...
We at Natural Gas for Europe are pleased to announce the launch of Natural Gas for Asia Natural Gas for Asia is focused on providing updated news and resources on the development, expanding production, trade and utilization of natural gas in the Asia Pacific region. Expanding natural gas use in Asia...
Chen Weidong, an influential policy guru at government-controlled China National Offshore Oil Corp., has a blunt message for oil sands companies and investors: Get out.The future, he says, is natural gas trapped in shale rocks."The oil sands are too costly and too polluting," Mr. Chen said in an interview...
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, said a test at its gas well in Sichuan has struck a daily flow of 11,500 cubic metres of shale gas in a "wildcat" exploration well, according to a website run by Sinopec's parent reported on Thursday.Gas was struck at the Yuanba-9 well in the northeastern...