Tag Archives: Asia

Saudi Aramco Raises all Oil Prices for Asia

Saudi Aramco has raised the official selling price of all the grades it exports to Asia, with flagship Arab Light for delivery in June set to become $0.90 more expensive, Bloomberg reported citing a pricing list it had seen. The move pushed international oil prices higher, Reuters reported earlier today, …

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Saudi Arabia Raises Oil Prices for Asia

Saudi Arabia raised the official selling prices of its crude for Asian buyers following the extension of the OPEC+ production cut agreement until the end of the first half of the year. The price for the country’s flagship Arab Light grade was raised by $0.20 per barrel over the Oman/Dubai …

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Shell Sees LNG Replacing Coal in Asia

UK energy supermajor Shell has projected that liquefied natural gas (LNG) will replace coal as a leading driver of Chinese and other Asian economies. According to the firm’s LNG Outlook published today, demand will rise by 50 percent by 2040 and global LNG trade will grow to around 625-685m tonnes …

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Russian LNG Exporter Targets Higher Prices to Asia

Russian Sakhalin Energy wants to increase long-term contract prices, threatening to drive up energy costs in South Korea and Japan. Sakhalin Energy sees a tighter gas market now than it did earlier. Accordingly, the talks in North Asia began late last year as part of a regular price review that …

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Asia-Bound U.S. LNG Cargoes Avoid the Red Sea Route

Several cargoes of LNG loaded in recent days at U.S. export facilities and bound for Asia have changed course shortly after departing to avoid crossing the Red Sea, which has become theater of daily attacks on commercial vessels by the Iran-aligned Houthis from Yemen. Several vessels have indicated they would …

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