China’s oil imports from Russia are on track for all-time high of over 2 million barrels per day in February as India is withdrawing from Russian spot purchases and supply is now heavily discounted for Chinese independent refiners. China is set to import 2.07-2.08 million barrels per day (bpd) of …
Read More »Europe Gets Rare LNG Cargo from China amid Gas Crunch
A tanker carrying liquefied gas is sailing to Europe from China in a rare move that was last made four years ago. The Seapeak Glasgow loaded the liquefied gas at the Zhejiang Ningbo terminal, Bloomberg reported, citing tanker-tracking data, and is signaling Europe as its next destination. European LNG imports …
Read More »China’s Metals Mania Sends Prices into the Blender
Trading volume and open interest on China’s metals exchanges soared to record highs in January, fueled by retail investors flocking to what they believe are the next market winners—precious and industrial metals. So many bullish positions were open at the start of the year that the first negative signals sent …
Read More »Oil Tankers Wait Offshore as Russia Redirects Barrels to China
Tankers carrying a total of up to 12 million barrels of crude oil are either en route or close to China in East Asian waters, waiting for buyers in the world’s top crude importer, as India is pulling back. Five of these tankers signal ‘for orders’ or ‘China for orders’ …
Read More »China’s LNG Imports Rise for a Third Straight Month
The recovery in China’s imports of liquefied natural gas is expected to extend for another month in January, Kpler has reported, for a total of three consecutive months of higher LNG imports year-on-year. The analytics provider estimates that China will import 6.94 million tons of LNG this month, as quoted …
Read More »China Moves Closer to Fusion Breakeven as Scientists Beat a Key Limit
China has been investing billions in nuclear fusion research. A potential game-changer for global energy, fusion has been slow to live up to promises, but now, Chinese scientists have reported yet another breakthrough in the process: a state of matter that was previously only theorized. Reported in Science Advances, the …
Read More »China Receives 22 Shipments of LNG from Sanctioned Russian Projects in 2025
China received 22 shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) last year from two export projects in Russia sanctioned by the United States and European Union, shiptracking data showed. One shipment was from Portovaya and the rest were from the Arctic LNG 2 project, showed data from Kpler and LSEG. The …
Read More »China’s CNOOC Discovers Massive Oilfield in Bohai Sea
CNOOC Ltd, China’s top offshore crude oil and natural gas producer, has announced the discovery of a major new oilfield in the Bohai Sea. The Qinhuangdao 29-6 discovery in the shallow Neogene formations of the Bohai Sea is yet another oilfield estimated to hold more than 100 million tons of …
Read More »Why China Is Driving Short-Term Oil Prices but OPEC still Holds the Lever
For most of the past decade, oil markets have treated decisions by OPEC as the primary signal for price direction. That hierarchy is being tested, but not overturned. What has changed is where traders look for short-term cues. Increasingly, those cues are coming from China, not because Beijing controls supply, …
Read More »China’s Tarim Oilfield Records Solar Generation of over 2 Billion kwh
The annual solar power generation at PetroChina Tarim Oilfield, China’s third-largest onshore oil and gas field, has surpassed 2 billion kWh as of Sunday. To date, Tarim Oilfield has completed five centralized solar power projects with a total installed capacity of 2.6 million kilowatts. There are also 239 distributed photovoltaic …
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