This year’s milder winter, weak industrial demand, and higher gas pipeline imports are set to result in the first decline in China’s LNG imports since 2022, according to estimates by research firms compiled by Reuters. Last year, China imported a total of 76.65 million metric tons of LNG. This year, …
Read More »Iran Reports Minor Damages to Fordow Nuclear Facility
A senior nuclear official in Iran has reported limited damages to the Fordow nuclear site near Qom after the Israeli regime’s strikes on Friday night. “There has been limited damage to some areas at the Fordow enrichment site,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said …
Read More »Indonesia to Host World’s Ninth-Largest Floating LNG Facility
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Bahlil Lahadalia, announced that Indonesia will have the world’s ninth-largest Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, which will also be the largest of its kind in the country. Bahlil shared this news during an inspection of two gas companies, Genting Oil Kasuri and …
Read More »Bulgaria Set to Join Eurozone in 2026
The European Commission has given Bulgaria the go-ahead to join the eurozone single currency region as of January 1, 2026, the country’s second major step in just one year on its path to full integration into the European Union. The commission, which met on June 4 to convey its decision …
Read More »EU Set to Allow more Flexible Natural Gas Storage Targets
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU member states have provisionally agreed to ease the bloc’s natural gas storage targets by allowing a 10 percentage point deviation in the 90% full storage goal, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a draft document it has seen. The greater flexibility comes in …
Read More »Russia’s Oil Profits Tumble as Prices Fall and Sanctions Hit
The combined net profits of Russia’s oil and gas companies nearly halved in the first quarter from a year earlier, while petroleum revenues for the budget have been falling with the decline in oil prices in recent months. The net profits of the Russian oil and gas firms slumped to …
Read More »Shell Set to Add 12 Million Tons of LNG Capacity by 2030
Shell expects to add 12 million tons of LNG capacity volumes by the end of the decade from projects currently under construction, a top executive at the world’s largest LNG trader said on Wednesday. “(There is) up to 12 million tons of additional (LNG) capacity that we’re adding between now …
Read More »Hot Asian Summer could Further Boost U.S. LNG Exports
Asia’s currently tepid LNG demand is set to become robust during the summer months as models suggest higher-than-usual temperatures across north Asia. A rise in Asian demand will support increased U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas, which are already at record highs, Reuters columnist Gavin Maguire notes. Early this month, …
Read More »OPEC Chief Claims Oil Demand Growth is Here to Stay
Crude oil demand will continue growing over the coming decades as the world’s population increases, the secretary-general of OPEC, Haitham Al Ghais, said this week, predicting a 24% cumulative rise in this demand until 2050. “There is no peak in oil demand on the horizon,” Al Ghais said at the …
Read More »Natural Gas Boom to Heat up in Texas
Texas is pumping natural gas out of the ground and exporting it at a record pace. It may only be the start of another energy boom for the Lone Star State because natural gas demand is growing both globally and at home. Texas produced 34.1 billion cu ft daily of …
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