Supply & Demand

SE Asian LNG outlook bullish as upstream wanes
Southeast Asia's LNG demand is set to surge up to 2025 as regional hydrocarbon production falls by 25%.
16 April 2018
Imports
Thailand’s gas supply plan to clarify need for more LNG
Thailand’s demand for state-owned PTT’s project to double the capacity of its new LNG receiving terminal will not be clear until the government finalises a plan on the forecasted gas demand over the next two decades, an official at the Ministry of Energy’s Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) told Interfax on Tuesday.
14 September 2011
Imports
Japan hopes to source LNG imports from the US by 2015
Japan hopes to import LNG from the United States from 2015, the Nikkei Daily reported on Wednesday.
14 September 2011
Exports
Russia and Belarus to sign gas deal in December
Russia and Belarus are preparing to sign a new deal on gas supplies in December, before the expiration of the current deal, Russian state gas export monopoly Gazprom said in a statement on Monday.
13 September 2011
Imports
Japanese imports of LNG reach record levels in August
The effects of Japan’s Tohoku earthquake are still being felt, with the country’s 10 utilities importing and consuming a record amount of LNG in the month of August.
13 September 2011
Imports
China imports 14 bcm of Turkmen gas via CACP - NEA
Turkmenistan has supplied 14 billion cubic metres (494 billion cubic feet) of natural gas to China since the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline (CACP) went online in December 2009.
13 September 2011
Imports
The Cypriot Electric Authority mulls minority stake in LNG plant
The Electric Authority of Cyprus (EAC) met with Israel’s Delek Group and Texas-based Noble Energy on Monday to discuss the possibility of taking a stake in a planned LNG liquefaction plant in Cyprus, spokesperson Costa Gavrielides told Interfax today.
13 September 2011
Gazprom exports and production fall by over 10%
After a strong few months of year-on-year growth, Russia’s gas exports have fallen in early September. Why exactly is this happening?
13 September 2011
Exports
SOCAR gas exports increased by 62% in past 8 months
State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) exported 1. 9 billion cubic meters of gas between January and August, 61.9% more year-on-year, the company told Interfax.
13 September 2011
Exports
SOCAR looks to wrap up gas-transit talks with Turkey in September
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) will conduct its next round of negotiations with Turkey over issues involved in transiting Azerbaijan gas to Europe, head of the SOCAR foreign investment management division Vagif Aliyev told reporters in Baku on Monday.
12 September 2011
Exports
Turkmenistan, China developing energy cooperation
The Turkmen capital of Ashgabat hosted the first meeting of a Turkmen-Chinese subcommittee for energy co-operation on Friday.
12 September 2011
Gas glut will rapidly be absorbed – IEA chief
Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency, tells Andreas Walstad why she thinks the current gas over-supply situation in Europe will not last long, and that new proje
9 September 2011
Chance gas glut will last longer than 2015 – EUCER’s Frank Umbach
Interfax speaks to Frank Umbach, an Associate Director at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security King’s College London, about how revolution in Egypt and Libya has impacted European en
9 September 2011
Forecasts
Economic Development ministry ups 2011 Russian gas-production forecast by 7 bcm
Russia's Economic Development Ministry has increased its forecast for gas production in 2011 by 7 billion cubic metres to 671 bcm, according to a ministry note attached to the 2012-2014 socioeconomic development forecast submitted to the Russian government.
9 September 2011
Imports
IEA says Japan’s LNG demand could jump 30 bcm in wake of Fukushima
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said this week that it is revising estimates of Japanese LNG demand growth by up to 30 billion cubic metres per year by the end of 2012, compared to 2010 levels, as a result of nuclear shutdowns following the Fukushima disaster.
9 September 2011
Forecasts
Global demand for LNG may create a very competitive market for buyers until 2015
The global LNG industry has grown at an unprecedented rate over the past two years, with first half 2011 production 41% higher than in the same period for 2009.
8 September 2011
Imports
CNPC to begin construction on third trunk line of CACP next year
China National Petroleum Corp. announced on Thursday that it plans to begin construction of a third trunk line to its Central Asia-China Natural Gas Pipeline (CACP) early next year.
8 September 2011
Forecasts
UK gas prices to stay below 80 p/th until 2017
UK gas prices are not expected to breach 80 pence per therm over the next seven years as economic growth is expected to remain low, according to a long-term forecast published on Tuesday by research and consultancy firm EnergyQuote.
6 September 2011
Imports
Indian gas-fired power plants suffer from shortages
India’s gas-fired power plants required about 82 million cubic metres per day (MMcm/d) to operate at full capacity as of 31 July, but they only consumed about 62 MMcm/d of gas because of supply shortages, the country’s Ministry of Power announced on Monday evening.
6 September 2011
Storage, economic woes to limit UK price rise
Although supply disruptions in Libya and Qatar and an increase in LNG demand from Japan have contributed to UK gas price increases, analysts believe that healthy storage levels may help put a lid on p
5 September 2011
Imports
Fujian sets floating price cap for spot market LNG
Fujian Province has pegged the price of LNG imports purchased on the spot market to the cost, insurance, and freight price under a regulation introduced on 1 September, a spokeswoman with the Fuzhou City pricing bureau told Interfax on Monday.
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