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• Commodity price transparency under threat
  17 May 2013 15:15 GMT
  
  
  Price reporting agencies are under intense scrutiny after allegations of price manipulation. However, heightened regulation is not necessarily the solution for improved market transparency
• China’s poor IPR score a mix of fact and fiction
  16 May 2013 12:18 GMT
  
  
  Slow headway on intellectual property rights reform is frustrating foreign companies in China, but some of the criticism may be fuelled by misperceptions about China’s IPR regime.
• Paradigm shift in global energy order underway
  15 May 2013 12:30 GMT
  
  
  The surge in North American hydrocarbon production and the region’s dwindling need for energy imports has laid the groundwork for US engagement in Asia Pacific.
• BOI cuts interest rates to counter Tamar impact
  14 May 2013 13:35 GMT
  

  The Bank of Israel (BOI) has launched a foreign exchange purchase programme to counter the impact of gas production from the Tamar field on the Israeli economy.

• Japan’s fuel bill to soar on monetary easing
  14 May 2013 12:40 GMT
  
  
  Energy analysts told Interfax that Japanese utilities are set to pay a steep price for Shinzo Abe’s aggressive monetary expansion
• Henry Hub continues to fall; rig counts at 18-year low
  14 May 2013 12:36 GMT
  

  The Henry Hub’s April rally came to a shuddering halt this month as the front-month contract fell to a six-week low after two weeks of large storage injections.

• Storage injections prevent plunge as temperatures heat up
  13 May 2013 11:59 GMT
  

  Mild weather curbed gas demand in Northwest Europe last week, prompting a decline in most contracts at Europe’s three largest hubs.

• Former Chinese energy head investigated on corruption claims
  13 May 2013 11:46 GMT
  

  Liu Tienan, the former head of China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) and current deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has been placed under formal investigation by anti-corruption authorities – the highest-ranking energy official in China to face a corruption probe to date.

• Traders tighten up PRA rules
  9 May 2013 14:53 GMT
  

  Natural gas price reporting agencies (PRAs) embroiled in a scandal over price manipulation have lost key data providers in the past six months as market participants shy away from an “imprecise science”.

• North American Markets: Henry Hub slumps on stock build
  8 May 2013 11:42 GMT
  

  The Henry Hub’s ascent was halted dramatically as the market posted its largest day-on-day fall in almost two years as storage injections surpassed expectations.

• Weak demand tempers effects of Vesterled outage
  7 May 2013 13:14 GMT
  

  European spot contracts sank in a turbulent week’s trade that was notable for a significant reduction in deliveries from Norway to the UK.

• Debt rising at NOCs as CNOOC issues bond
  3 May 2013 12:20 GMT
  
  
  China’s national oil companies have capitalised on strong investor demand with a flurry of recent bond sales but, with cash flows flat, debt levels are creeping higher.
• Henry Hub sheds 6% in one session as stocks build
  3 May 2013 12:06 GMT
  

  A month’s worth of gains were wiped off the Henry Hub on Thursday as gas inventories grew beyond analysts’ expectations.

• No LNG progress in Japan-Russia presidential talks
  2 May 2013 15:03 GMT
  
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Russia yielded no progress on the issue of LNG supplies, focusing instead on long-running territorial matters.
• Crédit Agricole becomes latest to abandon UK gas market
  2 May 2013 11:19 GMT
  

  UK energy regulator Ofgem has agreed to revoke Crédit Agricole’s UK gas trading licence following a request from the French bank.