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By Jerry C. Tien |
August 11, 2008
China relies heavily on coal-at over 70% of the nation's energy consumption-and petroleum to power its supercharged economic growth. It has plenty of the former (by far the world's largest producer*) and now has to import nearly 50% of the latter. Coalbed methane constitutes a significant, comparatively untapped resource that...
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By Jing Yang |
September 21, 2007
But even with a stockpile of 16 billion to 18 billion cubic metres, the company's reserves volume would still fall short of international standards.
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By Jing Yang |
August 30, 2007
China's top offshore oil and gas producer made seven new oil and gas finds in the first half of the year, company officials say.
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By Jing Yang |
August 29, 2007
China is on a mission to boost the use of natural gas in its energy mix to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the country's dependency on oil.
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By Jing Yang |
August 28, 2007
The Asia-Pacific region lacks new LNG projects due to environmental, cost-related and country-specific reasons.
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By Jack Lifton |
August 16, 2007
The U.S. can remedy its relative peak oil problem by eliminating its current, self-induced, relative peak metals-critical-to-self-sufficiency-in-energy-production problem.
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By Jing Yang |
August 14, 2007
And the China National Offshore Oil Corp. wins its first permit to explore an Australian offshore area.
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By Jing Yang |
May 22, 2007
The agreement between the traditional rivals seeks to expand natural gas reserves, build pipeline networks and secure gas supplies.
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By David Harman |
December 21, 2006
Given China's potential 20 billion cubic meter shortfall in 2010, expect more deals to be signed with this increasingly important trading partner.
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By James Stevenson |
December 20, 2005
Much stronger crude prices have triggered unprecedented levels of activity in the Canadian oilpatch, particularly in the northern Alberta oilsands.