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The China-Myanmar gas pipeline was completed and is fully operational
China National Petroleum Corp. has announced that the China- Myanmar gas pipeline was completed on Sunday and has gone fully operational. The project, extending more than 2500 km from western Myanmar to southwest China, will help the world's second-largest economy to supply its growing energy requirements.
read more... 21/10/2013
Daily: Crude oil prices pare losses after pipeline resumes activity
Crude oil prices on both sides of Atlantic pared losses on Monday as operations of the Seaway oil pipeline delivering crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to Gulf Coast refineries, resumed after a short shutdown. Cushing represents the delivery point for the U.S. oil futures contract. Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil dropped by 81 cents to settle at $103.03 a barrel, after trading close to $2 a barrel lower at $101.86 earlier in the session. The contract dipped below the 100-day moving average of $102.45. Brent crude futures pared earlier losses to settle 22 cents higher at $109.68 per barrel, after earlier trading as low as $107.89.
read more... 08/10/2013
Daily: Oil prices increase on Keystone pipeline start
Crude oil prices ended higher, recording the largest gain in two weeks on Wednesday, following news that TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL Gulf Coast pipeline would start up by the end of the year. Meanwhile, U.S. oil futures rose $2.06 per barrel, or up 2.02 percent, at $104.10, after trading as high as $104.23. Brent boosted by $1.25 or 1.16 percent to close at $109.19.
read more... 03/10/2013
China to become third largest producer of natural gas by 2035
According to Torstein Indreb, the secretary general of the International Gas Union, China is expected to become the world's third largest natural gas producer in 2035. For China, boosting domestic natural gas production would mean reduced dependency on costly imports in the form of liquefied natural gas or pipelines from Russia and central Asia.
read more... 02/10/2013
Russia to curb oil supplies to Belarus by 40% as the dispute escalates
Russia will cut oil pipeline deliveries to Belarus by 42% in the fourth quarter under an export schedule unveiled on Tuesday. The decision came amid a dispute over the arrest in Minsk of a Russian businessman, the head of the Russian potash company Uralkali.
read more... 18/09/2013