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: December 24th, 2012 | Tags: Al Jazeera, Alvin Lin, Breitling Oil and Gas, China, Chris Faulkner, CNOOC, Fortune Oil, fracking, freelance, John Barnes, Michael Jones, natural gas, NRDC, PetroChina, shale gas | No Comments »
Al Jazeera English published the following article on its website on 13 December 2012. It investigates the formidable array of environmental, technical and geologic challenges confronting widespread development of shale gas in China. The article after the jump.
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.