Colin Shek
China editorColin Shek directs editorial coverage of China's natural gas sector as the China news editor, and is also the Shanghai bureau chief for Interfax news agency. He joined the bureau in late 2010 and has reported on several industries in China including technology, telecommunications, media and agriculture. In the UK, he was a corporate finance journalist for a business-to-business magazine in Birmingham.
Gas looms large in China Resources merger
The $22 billion merger between power and gas subsidiaries of state-owned China Resources Group will create one of the country’s largest integrated energy utilities.
10 May 2013
Chevron, CNPC inch closer to startup of Chuandongbei
Chevron is set to start up its Chuandongbei gas project in Sichuan province in 2013. It will be one of the single largest gas producers in the country once operational.
8 May 2013China risks slowing consumption growth on stalled reforms
China risks a slowdown in the growth of its natural gas consumption unless it significantly increases prices for the fuel to spur greater domestic production and imports – a move that would provide an incentive for PetroChina, the country’s dominant gas company, to increase supply.
7 May 2013GDF Suez ups China presence with storage and FLNG deals
France’s GDF Suez has signed deals to help China boost its natural gas storage capacity and provide the world’s largest energy user with its first FLNG import terminal, the company said this week during a visit to China by French President François Hollande.
26 April 2013CNPC solicits feedback on $1 billion terminal in Shenzhen
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) issued a notice in the state-run Guangzhou Daily on Saturday to solicit public feedback on a proposed RMB 6.26 billion ($1.01 billion) LNG-receiving terminal in Shenzhen city in Guangdong province.
22 April 2013
China’s gas market to stay buoyant in low-growth scenario
China’s economy slowed unexpectedly in the first quarter of the year, expanding by only 7.7% as slackening factory output and tightening in the property sector dashed hopes for a reacceleration.
16 April 2013
PetroChina to maintain course as chairman departs
Jiang Jiemin's reassignment will not change PetroChina's strategy, say analysts, after the latest leadership shuffle at one of China's national oil companies.
19 March 2013
PetroChina move in WA meets mixed reaction
PetroChina is extending its reach into Australia’s energy sector by farming into two ConocoPhillips assets in the west, but analysts have questioned whether the move represents an endorsement of Aus
21 February 2013China’s Shenhua confirms shale gas block win in Hunan
China Shenhua Energy, the country’s largest coal producer, has confirmed it won the right to explore a shale gas block in southern China in a second rights tender held last year.
14 January 2013
PetroChina sinks $2.2 billion into shale JV with Encana
PetroChina has paid $2.21 billion for an interest in Encana’s Duvernay shale, ending doubts about the appetite of Chinese firms for investments in Canada’s oil and gas sector following new guidelines for state-owned foreign enterprises.
14 December 2012Shell, CNPC still exploring Fushun-Yongchuan shale gas block
Royal Dutch Shell and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) are still carrying out exploration and “derisking” work on the Fushun-Yongchuan shale gas block in the Sichuan Basin, a Shell spokesperson told Interfax on Friday.
16 November 2012
Measuring the Middle Kingdom
With questions hanging over China’s impressive GDP figures, power data may be able to provide a clearer picture of the world’s second-largest economy.
2 November 2012CNOOC, Kunlun to gain if China loosens price controls
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) and Kunlun Energy are the best-placed Chinese companies to capitalise on the central government’s gradual easing of gas price controls, HSBC said on Monday.
17 September 2012
Japan’s island purchase triggers Chinese maritime response
Chinese maritime surveillance (CMS) ships arrived at a group of islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China on Tuesday, a day after Beijing condemned a deal by the Japanese government to buy three of the islands from private owners.
11 September 2012
Analysts unmoved by China’s latest shale gas auction delay
China's decision to delay its second tender for shale gas blocks came as no surprise to analysts, who expect further holdups as Beijing attempts to draft a viable strategy for tapping its vaunted shale resources.
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