Tagged With Kwok W Wan
16 August 2012
Total US unconventional oil production may surpass second- and third-largest Opec members by 2020
1 August 2012
Volatile oil and gas prices dented earnings for the industry’s major players in the second quarter, with British supermajor BP reporting the worst of a set of disappointing results
20 July 2012
US unconventional oil production may surpass the second and third-largest Opec members by 2020
19 July 2012
Production has risen for a sixth consecutive year, as demand also increases
16 July 2012
Japan ramped up reactor three, at the Ohi nuclear power plant, to full power this week, despite huge protests and a damning government-commissioned report into the Fukushima disaster
10 July 2012
GDF Suez’s Jean-Marie Dauger explained to Kwok W Wan why diversity is key to gas’s golden age
3 July 2012
German utility drops arbitration claim against Russian exporter
2 July 2012
The Nabucco West Pipeline and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline are two possible routes to carry gas to Europe
25 June 2012
Asian liquefied natural gas buyers expect oil-link transition
20 June 2012
Arbitration filed against Russian exporter by European utilities are expected to end “amicably”
11 June 2012
Japanese buyer wants imports linked to gas hub prices, rejects argument for oil-indexation
11 June 2012
Japanese energy player Inpex is keeping an eye on the future as it invests in foreign upstream developments, chief executive Toshiaki Kitamura tells Kwok W Wan in an exclusive interview
8 June 2012
The head of Germany's Germany’s E.ON Ruhrgas and E.ON Trading said the future is with renewables in Europe
8 June 2012
The US government is keeping domestic gas prices lower than the rest of the world in a bid to stimulate its economy, Gazprom’s deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev claimed in a keynote address
8 June 2012
The future of European gas is married to renewable energy and reforms of the carbon emissions trading system, the head of Germany’s E.On Ruhrgas and E.On Trading said in an exclusive interview with Petroleum Economist
8 June 2012
Christophe de Margerie noted the pressure that will be on LNG producers to insist on oil-linked gas contracts to safeguard long-term returns
8 June 2012
Gazprom's deputy chairman claims the US government is keeping domestic gas prices low in order to stimulate its economy
24 May 2012
With brand new liquefied natural gas infrastructure and new pipelines opening, India has the potential to be a major gas importer. But the government faces a dilemma which may scupper its gas ambitions. Does it deliver much-needed market reform or does it protect millions of citizens living below the poverty line?
11 May 2012
Despite increased shale-gas production and slumping prices, the business and environmental opposition against liquefaction plants grows stronger and loude
12 April 2012
There are two gas-pricing mechanisms in India: the Administered Pricing Mechanism (APM) and the regime included in the New Exploration Licensing Policy (Nelp)
12 April 2012
Delegates to the Asia Gas Partnership Summit in New Delhi broke into applause after Pakistan confirmed its commitment to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline
15 March 2012
US LNG exporters are using cheap shale gas to undercut Australia’s coal-bed methane, threatening billions of dollars in infrastructure investment
8 March 2012
Rapid uptake of LNG-powered vessels presents multi-billion dollar opportunity for gas producers
21 February 2012
A year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s atomic future remains in the balance
21 February 2012
Total said in mid-February that it would like to invest in Kurdistan’s oil and gas industry, indicating that the Iraqi government’s fourth-round licensing terms were not very attractive
8 February 2012
Record investment in UK North Sea gasfields could reverse a decade-long downward production trend, according to consultancy Wood Mackenzie
7 February 2012
UK gas jumps above Russian oil-linked and Asian LNG prices
6 February 2012
Gazprom reduces gas supply to Europe amid freezing temperatures
2 February 2012
Companies are queuing up for potential US LNG exports, but domestic consumers are worried about the impact on Henry Hub gas prices
20 January 2012
Crude oil prices fell this week on evaporating fears of supply disruption from Iran and Nigeria, although the market was supported by positive Chinese and US economic data
19 January 2012
With demand in its largest market declining, Gazprom is making price concessions to its big European gas customers. Will its passion for oil-indexed prices be next to succumb, asks Kwok W Wan
17 January 2012
The energy market has grown increasingly dismissive of Nigeria’s oil and gas unions and their seemingly empty threats to shut in the county’s energy exports
12 January 2012
Could the sudden jump in energy demand from Thailand make it the surprise LNG buyer this year?
5 January 2012
How, if at all, asks Kwok W Wan, would shutting the Strait of Hormuz affect European gas and Asian LNG prices?
5 January 2012
Russia lets first LNG tanker from Norway to Asia through the new Northern Sea Route
4 January 2012
State-run energy firm Enarsa rejects high price bid, turns to spot market to make up shortfall
21 December 2011
Anyone who, a year ago, said 2011 would see civil war in Libya; Muammar Qadhafi toppled and executed; revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt; a revolt in Syria; the quashing of a rebellion in Bahrain by Saudi Arabia; a new nuclear crisis; the near-collapse of the Eurozone; and a renewed pessimism in the global economy should be a candidate for some kind of Nobel prize
12 December 2011
It’s 20 months since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Anthea Pitt and Kwok W Wan ask: has BP really turned the corner?
1 December 2011
With EU gas demand and prices set to fall next year, importers want to renegotiate their long-term contracts. But Gazprom is sitting tight
23 November 2011
Shahristani fumes over ExxonMobil’s KRG fait accompli: Iraqi government seems powerless to act over supermajor’s Kurdistan deal
26 October 2011
Kazakhstan’s KazMunaiGaz Exploration Production (KMG EP) is sitting on a large cash pile and looking for ways to spend it
19 October 2011
Japan is readying to restart its first nuclear reactors since March’s devastating earthquake, according the economy minister Yukio Edano
19 October 2011
Spain will continue to rely on coal to back up its huge renewable energy programme, although linking the country’s electricity grid to France will also help, the Spanish government said
19 October 2011
Vladimir Putin’s inevitable return to the top of Russian politics will not alter the country’s energy policy, deputy energy minister Anatoly Yanovsky told yesterday’s International Energy Agency (IEA) ministerial meeting
18 October 2011
The world must invest $38 trillion in oil, gas and electricity infrastructure over the next 25 years to stop prices from soaring, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today. And about half of that will need to be spent in the power sector
17 October 2011
Contentious trans-Caspian gas pipeline will be built; Shah Deniz gas will be transported through Nabucco; managing director Reinhard Mitschek talks to Kwok W Wan
14 October 2011
The restart of the Greenstream pipeline to Italy will flood an already oversupplied European gas market. Gas prices look set to drop
11 October 2011
Libyan oil production will hit 1 million barrels a day (b/d) in six months, and reach pre-war levels in less than 15, said Opec secretary general Abdalla El-Badri on Tuesday
29 September 2011
Traders are in favour of liquefied natural gas (LNG) price assessments for Asian spot trading, according to energy broker Tullett Prebon, and moving away from prices linked to oil
29 September 2011
The expanding global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market is likely to erode traditional oil-linked gas prices, if not break them completely, the Energy Charter Secretariat said on Wednesday