Natural gas prices are down more than 4% today at $1.67 per MMBtu, the lowest they have been since 1999. Waning demand for natural gas in Japan, warmer weather expectations in the U.S., along with an expected surge in LNG supplies has put a great deal of downward pressure on natural gas prices. Japan, the world’s largest importer of natural
Japan increasingly buying its oil from Russia Russia and Japan are becoming increasingly close energy partners, a trend that Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft (ticker: RNFTF) believes will continue into the future. Sechin said today that Russia’s oil exports to Japan rose 20% year-on-year in January-August 2015 despite a mutual decline in trade, Sechin said during a Russia-Japan energy cooperation
In recent years there has become an acute awareness of the importance of energy security around the world, particularly in Japan. In 2011 a powerful tsunami from the Pacific knocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station offline, and led to Japan’s decision to close the rest of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors. Japan, being the world’s third largest economy, was left
Cove Point Begins Construction, Freeport Secures Financing Japanese/Asian Customers Lock Up Capacity of Both Projects With three years of governmental review and permitting out of the way, Dominion (ticker: D) announced today it has begun construction activities on its Cove Point LNG Export project on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The estimated price tag to add
Japan has an intelligent, well-educated citizenry, strong business leaders and dedicated workers who created an industrial juggernaut that has been the envy of the world for decades. But Japan has a problem. With no natural gas and very limited oil reserves of its own, for decades Japan has relied largely on nuclear energy to fuel its industrial output and it
With its 55 nuclear reactors currently offline in answer to the devastating earthquake and tsunami it suffered in March 2011, Japan has been forced to import more expensive alternative fuels to replace the homegrown nuclear-fueled electrical generation capacity which previously made up between a quarter and a third of the country’s electrical output and helped it achieve energy independence in
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (ticker: COG), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a leading independent natural gas producer, with its entire resource base located in the continental United States. The company’s predominate growth asset is the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania which is producing more than one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. LNG Contract with Sumitomo On December
The governments of Japan and India announced on September 9, 2013, a joint buyer’s group agreement to increase the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in an attempt to offset their rising energy prices. According to Mari Iwata’s report in The Wall Street Journal, the countries plan to ask fellow importers, such as South Korea and Singapore, to join the
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