Ongoing development of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Russia will allow it to seize a 15-percent share of the global LNG market, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak wrote in an article in the Russian magazine Energy Policy. Since Russia began LNG exports in 2009 with the Sakhalin-2 project, …
Read More »US Toughens Stance against Gas Pipelines to Europe
The United States on Wednesday hardened its efforts to prevent the completion of new German-Russian and Turkish-Russian gas pipelines by ending sanctions exemptions for companies involved in the projects and warning they will be subject to US penalties unless they halt their work. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced …
Read More »Qatar’s Gas Supplies to UK Break Records
Qatar’s gas supplies to the UK have reached their highest rate with 42.7 million cubic metres being provided per day over the last three weeks, the Gulf states’ Al-Sharq newspaper reported yesterday. The paper reported that six of the largest tankers had arrived in the station of South Hook Gas …
Read More »US Natural Gas Futures Fall
US natural gas futures fell over 2% on Thursday, following a 3% decline in crude futures related to worries about ongoing coronavirus demand destruction despite a report showing a smaller-than-usual weekly gas storage build that was in line with estimates. That price drop also came as gas output slowly rises …
Read More »Farzad-B Gas Field Development Deal to be Signed Soon
Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said on Saturday that the operator for Farzad-B gas field has been determined and the deal for the development of the field is going to be signed in the near future, Mehr News Agency reported. Masoud Karbasian made the announcement on the …
Read More »US Natural Gas Consumption to Drop 3% This Year
US natural gas consumption is forecast to fall 3 percent this year from fewer drillings due to the coronavirus pandemic and demand could decline as much as 5 percent in 2021, the Energy Information Administration said in its July outlook. “EIA expects US natural gas consumption will decline by 3% …
Read More »Denmark Allows Nord Stream 2 to Complete Pipeline Hit by US Sanctions
Danish Energy Agency on July 6 gave Nord Stream 2 permission to use pipe laying vessels with anchors to complete the final stretch of the gas pipeline in Danish waters, allowing the company to restart work on the pipeline from Russia to Germany that was hit by US sanctions. Nord …
Read More »Iran’s Daily Gas Output Exceeds 2m cm
Iranian gas output registered a 2.2% growth in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (started on March 20) so that the country’s gas output exceeded 2m cubic meters a day, according to a senior official with National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Masoud Zardouyan, the NIGC director of coordination …
Read More »Merkel: US Sanctions on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Elude Understanding
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that proposed US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia were law-defying and would be dealt with. “We think that extraterritorial sanctions, like the ones imposed by the US, do not match our understanding of what is legal. This concerns …
Read More »CNOOC Announces Significant South China Sea Discovery
CNOOC Limited has made a significant discovery of Huizhou 26-6 in Eastern South China Sea. It is expected to become the first mid-to-large sized condensate oil and gas field in the shallow water area of Pearl River Mouth Basin. The Huizhou 26-6 structure is located in Huizhou Sag in Zhu1 …
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