The United States has nearly halved its anti-dumping tariffs on oil pipeline products from South Korean steelmakers, industry sources said Tuesday. The US Department of Commerce has decided to levy a tariff of 4.23 percent to 9.24 percent on South Korean oil pipelines, far lower than the 2018 ruling of …
Read More »Samsung Heavy’s LNG Liquefaction Technology Certified by ABS
Samsung Heavy Industries said Tuesday it obtained a detailed design approval from the US ship classification organization American Bureau of Shipping for its natural gas liquefaction cycle technology, the first in the shipbuilding industry. The shipbuilder said, upon the approval, it can save costs for the payment of technology fees …
Read More »Iran Pursing Lawsuit against South Korean Banks
Iranian Foreign Ministry in an announcement on Wed. emphasized that Islamic Republic of Iran will pursue a complaint concerning its frozen assets against the South Korean banks in the international courts of justice. Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated, “No telephone calls have been made by the spokesperson of the …
Read More »Condensate Refineries Stymie US Anti-Iran Sanctions
Iran is in the brink of halting export of gas condensates and is instead going to process the ultra-light oil in its new refineries to produce higher-value chemicals, oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said.
Read More »South Korea to Shift to 40% Clean Energy Share by 2034
The East-Asian country plans to begin to shift away from thermal and nuclear power generation to a larger proportion of renewable energy.
Read More »Korean Scientists Develop New Stretchable Lithium-Ion Battery
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a high-capacity lithium-ion battery that is flexible enough to be stretched. Led by senior researcher Jeong Gon Son, the team created an accordion-like micro-structure, which gives structural stretchability to non-stretchable materials, and thus constructed a micro-inwardly curved electrode framework …
Read More »South Korea Pushes Energy Transition Dream with Liquid Hydrogen Plant Plan
South Korea has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest liquid hydrogen plant, taking a lead among Asian countries to embrace the clean fuel in its quest to speed up the energy transition process and cut dependence on imported oil. South Korea’s chemical-focused conglomerate Hyosung Group has signed a deal …
Read More »South Korea’s Available Oil Storage Capacity is Shrinking
South Korea, the country with the fourth-largest commercial storage capacity in Asia, has just run out of room to store more oil, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Monday, as available storage capacity everywhere in the world in shrinking fast amid the demand collapse. South Korea’s total commercial …
Read More »LNG Imports Market to Take a Hit Due to Covid-19 Crisis
In 2019, the three nations collectively imported nearly 51% of global LNG supplies.
Read More »Top Asian LNG Buyer Seeks to Delay Shipments Deep into 2020
One of the world’s top buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is trying to defer some shipments scheduled through this year as the coronavirus outbreak cripples demand and as it grapples with brimming inventories. The move signals that efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 may impact energy consumption far …
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