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France: Hollande faces pressure to overturn shale gas policy
Tension continues to intensify on the French President François Hollande to overturn his policy on shale gas exploration.
read more... 06/08/2013
Gazprom’s gas deliveries to Europe boost by 29% in July
The Russian gas giant Gazprom boosted its gas exports to European Union and Turkey in July, an increase of 29% to 14.04 billion cubic metres (bcm) compared to the same period a year ago.
read more... 05/08/2013
Poland will not apply taxes on shale gas production by 2020
After several foreign companies, as Exxon Mobil, Canada’s Talisman Energy and US oil firm Marathon, quit the Polish market in the past few months, the finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, has announced that Poland will not tax shale gas production until 2020 and will improve regulation, in a move which aims to attract energy explorers.
read more... 02/08/2013
China has started importing gas from Myanmar
The China-Myanmar pipeline has started delivering natural gas to China, aiming to reduce the country’s reliance on shipping through the Strait of Malacca and will help to diversify its energy imports.
read more... 01/08/2013
United States and China signed a production sharing contract on shale oil
U.S. energy company Hess Corp has signed a co-operation agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to develop a shale oil block in China.
read more... 30/07/2013