Europe has been importing growing volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia and should consider replacing these with supply from other sources, including Qatar, according to Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). “Europe has been importing a lot of Russian LNG to help its economies,” Birol …
Read More »Shell Sees 60% Jump in Global LNG Demand by 2040
Global LNG demand is set to surge by 60% through 2040, pushed up by Asia’s economic growth, the world’s biggest LNG trader, Shell, said in its annual LNG report on Tuesday. The other key drivers of LNG consumption growth will be the push for emissions reductions in heavy industry and …
Read More »Turkey Seeks Extension to Turkmenistan Gas Supply Deal
Turkey will look to negotiate an extension to a five-year swap agreement to receive natural gas from Turkmenistan, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told local daily Hürriyet on Tuesday. Two weeks ago, Bayraktar announced that Turkish state firm BOTAS and Turkmenistan’s Turkmengaz signed an agreement to supply gas from the …
Read More »U.S. Sanctions Indian Firms Shipping Iranian Oil
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has added four Indian companies to its latest list of entities sanctioned for their involvement in the international trade of Iranian crude oil. The companies are Austinship Management Pvt Ltd, BSM Marine LLP, Cosmos Lines Inc, and Flux Maritime LLP. The designation of …
Read More »Trumps Wants Keystone XL Built
President Donald Trump wants the Keystone XL pipeline built, he said in a post on his social network Truth Social. “Our Country’s doing really well, and today, I was just thinking, that the company building the Keystone XL Pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the incompetent Biden Administration should come …
Read More »Ukraine Mineral Rights at Center of Negotiations with U.S.
As Ukraine prepares to mark three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, leaders in Kyiv are weighing U.S. proposals for access to Ukrainian mineral resources. Speaking on February 23, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with the United States on the matter were “making progress.” The same day, …
Read More »Asian Buyers Demand Lower Prices for Qatar’s Long-Term LNG Deals
Major LNG buyers in Asia are seeking lower prices for Qatar’s new long-term supply than the Gulf exporter is offering, complicating negotiations over offtake volumes from the massive Qatari expansion projects, sources familiar with the talks have told Bloomberg. Qatar has a huge expansion program underway to boost its export …
Read More »BP Set to Scrap Renewable Energy Goal as It Boosts Oil and Gas
BP is expected to announce this week that it is shifting its focus back to oil and gas, ditching a target to boost renewable energy capacity generation 20-fold by 2030, sources familiar with the new strategy told Reuters on Monday. BP earlier this month pledged to fundamentally reset its strategy …
Read More »Putin Unveils Ambitious Plans to Use Nuclear Submarines for LNG Transportation
Russia is aiming to transport gas using nuclear-powered submarines. The project involves the creation of a massive 360-meter-long submarine gas carrier, boasting a capacity of around 180,000 tons. The country’s plans to construct these submarines for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) were highlighted by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the …
Read More »India’s Natural Gas Import Bill up 17% in April-January
India’s natural gas import bill surged 17.2% to $12.9 billion during April–January of the current fiscal, compared to $11.0 billion in the same period last year, driven by rising consumption, according to data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC). In January alone, the import bill increased by 8.3% …
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