Posted: March 9th, 2020 | Tags: Beijing, carbon emissions, China, energy, natural gas, oil and gas, policy | No Comments »
Interfax Global Energy Services closed in February 2020, so I am sharing some of my final articles here to preserve them. This article was published on 27 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 9th, 2020 | Tags: China, energy, LNG, oil and gas, United States | No Comments »
Interfax Global Energy Services closed in February 2020, so I am sharing some of my final articles here to preserve them. This article was published on 20 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 9th, 2020 | Tags: China, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, deepwater, energy, oil and gas | No Comments »
Interfax Global Energy Services closed in February 2020, so I am sharing some of my final articles here to preserve them. This article was published on 14 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 9th, 2020 | Tags: China, energy, natural gas, oil and gas, shale gas | No Comments »
Interfax Global Energy Services closed in February 2020, so I am sharing some of my final articles here to preserve them. This article was published on 13 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 9th, 2020 | Tags: China, clean coal, coal, energy, natural gas, oil and gas, renewables | No Comments »
Interfax Global Energy Services closed in February 2020, so I am sharing some of my final articles here to preserve them. This article was published on 6 January 2020. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 1st, 2015 | Tags: Al Jazeera, China, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, CNOOC 981, deepwater, energy, Haiyang Shiyou 981, oil and gas, South China Sea, territorial disputes | No Comments »
Since I wrote this for Al Jazeera English in March 2013, China’s growing deepwater ambitions have ratcheted up tensions in the South China Sea. Last year China’s main offshore energy explorer CNOOC launched its first deepwater natural gas project in the South China Sea, and then triggered a months-long maritime standoff with Vietnam by towing its biggest oil rig into Vietnamese waters.
CNOOC, owned and controlled by the Chinese central government, sees the underexplored, tempestuous deep waters of the South China Sea as a source of future oil and gas production growth. Its existing fields are mature and are in decline. Venturing further afield is the company’s best hope.
Posted: November 1st, 2012 | Tags: China, economy, energy, GDP, power | No Comments »
Toothpaste, pet food and tyres are a handful of exports from China that have had their provenance questioned in recent years. Add to that list the country’s impressive GDP figures, which have telegraphed two decades of extraordinary economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 2nd, 2012 | Tags: auction, China, delay, energy, natural gas, shale gas, tender | No Comments »
The story after the jump was written by me and James Byrne for Interfax Natural Gas Daily, a digital publication that reports on the global gas industry. The story was published on 21 August 2012 (subscribers only) and looks at the setbacks to China’s latest auction of rights to prospect for shale gas, which is a form of natural gas found in shale rock deep underground.
China is believed to have the largest recoverable reserves of shale gas worldwide, enough to last nearly 200 years at the country’s rate of gas consumption in 2011, but the method of extracting shale gas – hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ – is environmentally contentious.