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| May 28, 2014 |
 Fukushima disaster means Japan needs more gas from new resource Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (UPI) May 27, 2013 - Japan will receive the first shipment of liquefied natural gas from a project led by Exxon Mobil in Papua New Guinea, project developers said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. bought the first cargo of LNG from the partnership in charge of the $19 billion facility. The Japanese energy sector has taken on more LNG in response to the shortage of power brought on by the 2011 meltdown at the ... more |  |
How Turkey's regional ambitions tie into disputes over Iraqi oil Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) May 27, 2013 - Turkey is flexing diplomatic muscle and showing it's ready to position itself as a key energy hub with the export of Kurdish oil, an international analyst said. The semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government confirmed in a statement Friday a tanker loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil left a Turkish port, the first of what it said would be "many such sales of oil" from ... more |  |
BP says most contracts awarded for gas field meant to break Russia's European grip Baku, Azerbaijan (UPI) May 27, 2013 - \Most of the contracts for a natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe have now been awarded, BP regional President Gordon Birrell said. BP and the South Caucasus Pipeline Co. awarded $735 million in contracts for the construction of more than 300 miles of pipelines and associated infrastructure in Azerbaijan and Georgia to a group led by a joint venture between Italian company Sai ... more |  |
Russian energy company will keep gas flowing under proposed Ukrainian gas deal Brussels (UPI) May 27, 2013 - Russian energy company Gazprom agrees to keep gas flowing through Ukraine for June without pre-payment from Ukraine, the European Union said. European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger met with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yuri Prodan, to settle lingering issues in the Ukrainian natural gas sector. The European Commission said Monday ... more |  |
Injuries on the job in Norway's oil and gas sector decline Oslo, Norway (UPI) May 27, 2013 - The number of workplace injuries reported for oil and gas operations in Norwegian territory are in a general decline, a national safety regulator said. Petroleum Safety Authority Norway published data for 2013 for personal injuries on the Norwegian continental shelf for both mobile and permanently-placed facilities. For mobile platforms, the safety authority said injuries reporte ... more |  |
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Greenpeace activists board rigs to protest oil drills The Hague (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Greenpeace activists boarded two oil rigs in northern Europe Tuesday to protest against "reckless" plans by multinational companies to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic. In the Dutch port of IJmuiden, members of the environmental group scaled the giant GSP Saturn platform which they say was on its way to the lucrative Dolginskoye oil field in Russia's northern Pechora Sea. They chained ... more |  |
French services company Technip to help feed growing Chinese demand for gas Paris (UPI) May 27, 2013 - French energy services company Technip said it secured a contract to help build a liquefied natural gas terminal in China. Chinese company Fengzhen Wanjie Gas Co. Ltd. awarded the contract for the engineering and design work at a plant in Inner Mongolia province that will have a capacity to process about 350,000 tons of LNG per year. "This contract award is another success for us ... more |  |
Russia's Weakened Hand Could Pay Off For Beijing In Major Gas Deal Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - A major gas deal between Russia and China could finally be sealed this week when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China on May 20-21 and meets with President Xi Jinping. In the lead up to Putin's arrival, the two sides have been working on putting the finishing touches on a 30-year contract for a gas deal a decade in the making, and Russian officials have suggested that the deal will be c ... more |  |
Dutch arrest six Greenpeace activists over oil drill demos The Hague (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Dutch police on Tuesday arrested six activists as Greenpeace staged two protests in northern Europe including chaining a Russian contracted oil rig to a dock, to highlight oil drilling in the eco-sensitive Arctic oceans. "Police have arrested six of our activists. They are still in custody but we don't know what the charges are," said Faiza Oulahsen, who coordinated the protest in the northw ... more |  |
Oil and gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communities Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Conventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities, and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may accelerate these changes, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The commonwealth's Northern Tier - one of the largest blocks of Eastern deciduous forest in the entire Appalachian region - is an important b ... more |  |
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Shale development generally helps local government coffers Durham NC (SPX) May 23, 2014 - Oil and gas development from shale fields has generally helped the public finances of local communities, providing new revenues and resources that usually - but not always - outweigh the increased demand for public services and other costs, according to a new analysis from two Duke University researchers. Daniel Raimi and Richard Newell gathered data from communities surrounding 10 oil a ... more |  |
China gas deal a symbolic victory for Russia but won't leave Europe dry Moscow (AFP) May 25, 2014 - The $400 billion gas deal Russia signed with China was a symbolic victory for Moscow as it is locked in a dispute with the West over Ukraine, but the scale of the deal is not as massive as it seems at first blush, according to analysts. The volumes to be shipped east won't cut Russia's dependence on selling gas to the West, nor would they lead to shortages in Europe. Under the 30-year de ... more |  |
U.S. rail regulator said most rail companies following rules for Bakken oil Washington (UPI) May 23, 2013 - The U.S. rail industry is following the rules for shipping Bakken crude oil, though some violations exist on the margins, the nation's top rail regulator said. Last year, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration launched the so-called Bakken Blitz, spot inspections of crude oil shipments by rail to determine if the industry was labeling their cargoes prop ... more |  |
British government reviews shale oil potential in country's southeast London (UPI) May 23, 2013 - The British government said Friday it estimates there may be as much as 8.5 billion barrels of oil in a shale basin in the southeast of the country. The British Geological Survey and Department of Energy and Climate Change published data Friday on the Weald basin in the southeast of the country. It said there may be between 2.2 billion and 8.5 billion barrels of shale oil in plac ... more |  |
Expanding Nord Stream, building South Stream, will help Europe with gas, Gazprom says St. Petersburg, Russia (UPI) May 23, 2013 - Expanding the Nord Stream pipeline through the Baltic Sea, and building the South Stream counterpart, is good for Europe, Russian energy company Gazprom said. Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom's deputy chairman, met in St. Petersburg with Han Fennema, chairman of gas infrastructure company Gasunie, to discuss gas supplies to Europe. Lingering debt issues between Ukraine, which hosts a ... more |  |
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Holiday travelers paying about the same at the pump, Energy Department says Washington (UPI) May 23, 2013 - U.S. drivers are paying an average $3.67 for a gallon of gasoline ahead of Memorial Day, the start of summer driving season, the Energy Department said Friday. Memorial Day, May 26, is considered the start of the summer driving season. After an increase of 42 cents per gallon from early February to late April, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy Depa ... more |  |
Iraq files case against Turkey over Kurdish oil exports Baghdad (AFP) May 23, 2014 - Baghdad launched legal action against Ankara Friday after oil from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region was exported to international markets without the cental government's consent, potentially worsening already-poor ties between the neighbours. The sudden decision to call for arbitration by Iraq, which came after shipments began on Thursday evening, is the latest move in a years-long row in wh ... more |  |
Iraq repairs oil pipeline after months of attacks Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2014 - Iraqi engineers began repairs Saturday to a northern oil pipeline that has been disabled for months by militant attacks, costing the country millions of dollars in lost revenues, officials said. The repairs to 40 kilometres (25 miles) of the pipeline, which runs from the northern province of Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, are expected to take between 10 days and two weeks, oil ministr ... more |  |
Russian gas monopoly wants better ties with Azerbaijan, seen as a European savior St. Petersburg, Russia (UPI) May 23, 2013 - Russian energy company Gazprom said Friday it was upbeat about the potential to build stronger ties with its counterparts in Azerbaijan. Alexei Miller, the chairman of the Russian energy company, met Friday in St. Petersburg with his counterpart at the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic, Rovnag Abdullayev. Gazprom said both sides paid "special attention" to gas purchase ... more |  |
Chad suspends work by Chinese oil company CNPC N'Djamena (AFP) May 23, 2014 - Chad has suspended all work by the local unit of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for allegedly violating environmental law, Oil Minister Djerassem Bemadjiele said in a letter seen by AFP on Friday. The ministerial letter accused CNPC's Chadian subsidiary of systematically carrying out polluting practices banned by both Chadian and international legislation and said that all of th ... more |  |
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