Chinese chemical producer Baofeng has started production from the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in the Chinese region of Ningxia raising global installed electrolyzer capacity by 50%. The news highlights how China is beating the world on climate technologies.
Leslie Peterkin, chief executive of London-listed Advance Energy, will leave the company as part of a cost-cutting drive after a highly anticipated exploration well offshore East Timor failed to deliver commercial success. The company is now seeking growth through acquisitions.
Shell has (LSE:RDSA) started up its first commercial hydrogen electrolyser in China with 20 MW production capacity just in time to supply the Winter Olympic Games.
Malaysia’s Petronas is seeking investors for 14 exploration blocks, six clusters of discovered resource opportunities and one cluster of late life assets in its Malaysia Bid Round 2022 (MBR 2022). Significantly, Petronas is making vast amounts of data available to potential investors.
Australia’s Woodside (ASX:WPL) is making a complete exit from Myanmar due to the deteriorating human rights situation in the Southeast Asian nation. The decision follows TotalEnergies (LSE:TTE) and Chevron’s (NYSE:CVX) recent announcement that they will both exit Myanmar.
Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) (BKK:PTTEP) looks set to takeover operatorship at the Yadana gas project offshore Myanmar after TotalEnergies announced its decision to withdraw from the troubled country last week.
Shell’s (LSE:RDSA) sale of its 45% share of the Malampaya gas project in the Philippines to Udenna Corporation for $460 million has stalled after the country’s national oil company PNOC blocked the deal amid crumbling political support.
Exploration activity is set to recover in Asia Pacific this year with exciting campaigns on the horizon driven by the region’s hunger for natural gas and a rising sense of urgency to prove up new resources, analysis from energy research firm Wood Mackenzie shows.
BW Offshore has signed a deal to sell its FPSO BW Joko Tole to a group of Indonesian companies that will free up cash to pursue other investments. However, the FPSO was sold at a loss.
Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) has made its first operated offshore exploration discovery with its Anambas-2X well in the Anambas Block offshore Indonesia.
Hibiscus Petroleum (KLSE: HIBISCS) has completed its acquisition of Repsol’s upstream assets in Malaysia and Vietnam that will increase the Malaysian-listed company’s oil and gas production almost threefold.
Carnarvon Energy (ASX:CVN) has today confirmed that the Buffalo-10 exploration well offshore East Timor is uncommercial.
A Mitsubishi-led consortium has dominated Japan’s first-ever fixed-bottom offshore wind auction with record-low prices. The results surprised the industry, but European know-how will still be needed to make the nascent sector a success in Japan.
Local utility First Gen Corporation is on track to start importing the Philippines’ first-ever cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) later this year as its receiving terminal nears completion.
Global upstream merger and acquisition (M&A) deals rebounded to pre-Covid-19 levels in 2021, reaching a total of $181 billion, a 70% increase over 2020, Rystad Energy research shows. The total deal value for 2021 was the highest in three years and almost reached the highs seen in 2017 and 2018 of $205 billion and $199 billion, respectively.
TotalEnergies (LSE: TTE) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX) said today that they will exit Myanmar due to the worsening situation in the Southeast Asian country, particularly concerning human rights abuses by the junta, since the military-led coup on 1 February 2021.
Nuclear power can be a polarising energy source, but as countries seek cleaner, low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels, investments in nuclear are projected to soar in the coming years, particularly in China, India and Russia, the latest research from Rystad Energy shows. The consultancy estimates $91 billion will be invested in the global nuclear sector by the end of next year.
The era of ever-cheaper clean power is over, giving a fresh jolt of uncertainty to global energy markets battered by one supply crisis after another.
Supply and demand fundamentals drive oil prices. Things like OPEC+ production plans and US driving patterns matter the most — until they don’t. That’s when the wizardry of Wall Street takes over, giving prices a push up or down beyond what the physical fundamentals warrant.
Australian-listed Carnarvon Energy (ASX:CVN) is excited by its projects in the Bedout basin offshore Western Australia following a disappointing drilling result at the Buffalo field offshore East Timor.
Malaysia’s Hibiscus Petroleum has received the joint approval from Petronas and PetroVietnam to take control of Repsol’s interests in the Block PM3 CAA production sharing contract (PSC) and unitisation agreement of the East Bunga Kekwa – Cai Nuoc field under Block 46 PSC.
China's state-owned Sinopec reported yesterday that it had received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo as part of a new supply contract with Qatar Energy.
Orsted has announced that Matthias Bausenwein will return to Europe for family reasons and take on a new role outside of Orsted. He will therefore step down from his position as president of Asia-Pacific and chairman of Orsted Taiwan on 20 January.
Results from the highly anticipated Buffalo-10 well drilled by Carnarvon Energy (ASX:CVN) and Advance Energy (LON:ADV) offshore East Timor have disappointed. Drilling at the redevelopment project was targeting a potential oil bonanza, which now seems unlikely.
European natural gas slumped as a top LNG importer in China prepares to flood the market with fuel that could further ease supply concerns in the continent.
