China
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July 09, 2018
American oil producers may find a new friend in India as they brace for a trade war with China that could curb U.S. shipments.
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July 03, 2018
CNOOC Limited announced today that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, has signed a production sharing contract with Roc Oil (Bohai) Company and Smart Oil Investment Ltd. for Weizhou 10-3W oilfield and Block 22/04 in the South China Sea.
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June 27, 2018
A U.S. State Department official called on Asia’s energy sector to open its doors to outside competition, even as tensions between Washington and Beijing escalate.
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June 26, 2018
Strong demand growth from China, greater industrial demand, and rising supplies from the United States, will transform global natural gas markets over the next five years according to the International Energy Agency's latest market forecast.
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June 26, 2018
China Energy Investment Corp. pledged almost $84 billion in shale gas and chemical manufacturing projects across West Virginia after President Donald Trump’s trade mission to Beijing in November, but when it came time to discuss details officials were a no-show.
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June 18, 2018
Empyrean Energy, the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the U.S., has announced that a comprehensive oil migration study encompassing China's Block 29/11, for which it holds 100% exploration rights, has now been completed and has established potential oil migration pathways into the Jade, Topaz and Pearl prospects.
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June 18, 2018
China’s planned levies on U.S. crude as part of an escalating trade dispute threatens to dim the attractiveness of American supplies in the world’s biggest oil-importing nation.
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June 15, 2018
China has been a key recipient of American oil since a 40-year U.S. ban on exports was ended by then-President Barack Obama in 2015.
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June 14, 2018
Two of Asia’s largest crude buyers are considering teaming up to buy U.S. supplies and counter OPEC’s dominance in the world’s biggest oil market.
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June 12, 2018
China’s push to eradicate smog by using more natural gas is set to get a boost as it pushes ahead with a plan to merge under one company a national pipeline network that would unify transport and investment decisions.
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May 31, 2018
TechnipFMC has been awarded a subsea contract by CNOOC Limited for the Liuhua 16-2, 20-2 and 21-2 Oilfield Joint Development Project in the South China Sea.
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May 29, 2018
Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services (EPS) East division has secured a project support and engineering services contract with Husky Oil China Ltd. (HOCL). The three-year contract is in support of HOCL’s Liuhua 29-1 gas field development project located offshore at the Pearl River Mouth basin.
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May 24, 2018
CNOOC Ltd., the Chinese oil company developing Uganda’s crude finds with Total SA and Tullow Oil Plc, said production at its Kingfisher field will probably start in 2021.
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May 21, 2018
China’s appetite for U.S. liquefied natural gas may be about to get a lot bigger after the two nations agreed to pull back from the brink of a trade war.
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May 21, 2018
As corporate defaults pile up in China’s onshore bond market, a unit of a once-promising energy conglomerate with $4.8 billion of debt and a checkered past said it won’t be able to meet its payment obligation Monday.
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May 18, 2018
CNOOC Limited has announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has signed two production sharing contracts (PSCs) with Husky Oil Operations (China) Limited for Block 22/11 and 23/07, in the South China Sea.
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May 15, 2018
Europe is starting to steal some of the limelight from China’s booming liquefied natural gas demand as imports pick up after several lackluster years.
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May 08, 2018
The end of some of the weakest physical crude prices in years could be in sight.
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May 07, 2018
Total SA, the only Western energy major investing in Iran, will lose its stake in the South Pars natural gas field to its Chinese partner if the Paris-based company withdraws from the country, the head of National Iranian Oil Co. said.
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May 04, 2018
Qatar emerged as a major shareholder in Rosneft PJSC on Friday after a $9-billion deal to sell a stake in Russia’s state-run oil producer to China’s troubled CEFC Energy Co. collapsed.
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May 03, 2018
The trading unit of one of the world’s biggest refiners is displeased with Saudi Arabia’s oil pricing, which may benefit the U.S. and Russia.


