Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) announced that Chinese oil companies were the largest buyers of Iraqi oil during the month of February. According to statistics published on SOMO’s official website, Chinese companies accounted for 7 of the 35 firms that purchased oil last month. SOMO’s data revealed …
Read More »China Boosts Installed Capacity of Renewables in First 2 Months of 2023
China’s installed renewable energy capacity significantly increased in the first two months of 2023, according to data from the country’s National Energy Administration showed on Tuesday. By the end of February, the installed capacity of wind power of China rose 11% year-on-year to nearly 370 million kilowatts. Meanwhile, the installed …
Read More »Chinese Oil Drillers Set New Asian Depth Record
Oil drillers in China set a new record for well depth, drilling 9,396 meters into the ground for what has become the deepest oil well in Asia, Chinese media have reported. The record well is part of a new phase in the development of an oil field in the Taklamakan …
Read More »PetroChina Completes Drilling Asia’s Deepest Horizontal Well in NW China
PetroChina announced on Friday that it has completed drilling a well at a depth of 9,396 meters in Tarim Basin, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the deepest horizontal well in Asia. It marks the Tarim Oilfield entering a new phase of oil and gas exploration at a …
Read More »China’s Oil Imports Set to Soar despite Slow Start to 2023
Chinese energy commodity imports were underwhelming in the first two months of 2023, but they are expected to pick up later this year with potentially record-high crude oil purchases, even though Beijing has set its lowest annual economic growth target in decades. In January and February, months in which China …
Read More »Germany Plans Industrial Electricity Tariff to Undercut US, China
Berlin is planning to introduce a special industrial electricity tariff ranging between €0.05 and €0.09 per kilowatt-hour in order to boost the country’s competitiveness and push back against US and Chinese subsidies. Electricity has always been pricey in Germany – a 2015 study by the Fraunhofer Institute found that the …
Read More »Oil Drops on China’s Cautious Growth Goal as Fed Concerns Linger
Oil declined as China’s modest new growth ambitions and the prospect of tighter U.S. monetary policy posed headwinds for global fuel consumption. West Texas Intermediate traded below US$79 a barrel after gaining more than four per cent last week. China’s Premier Li Keqiang announced a goal for gross domestic product …
Read More »Oil Prices Fall as Top Crude Importer China Sets Modest Economic Growth Target for 2023
Oil prices fell in morning trading on Monday after China’s set a modest target for economic growth for this year. Brent, the benchmark for two thirds of the world’s oil, was trading 0.71 per cent lower at $85.26 a barrel at 9.58am UAE time while West Texas Intermediate, the gauge …
Read More »China Gives New Backing to Coal Even as Clean Energy Accelerates
China signaled coal will retain its role as the country’s mainstay fuel even as the government continues to support the expansion of its world-leading clean energy industry. The nation that mines and burns more than half the world’s coal will keep supporting the fuel, while targeting more efficient consumption and …
Read More »India, China to be at the Centre of Russia’s New Energy Policy
Russia will no longer rely on the West for its energy trade and its new energy policy will be oriented towards more reliable partners like India and China, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Delhi on Friday. “We would not rely anymore on any partners in the West. We …
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