Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi has condemned a Chinese state company for inviting international bids for nine oil and gas blocks located in Vietnams sovereign territory. At a regular press briefing Tuesday he said th...

Changsha ENN Gas Corp., the primary gas distributor for Changsha City in Hunan Province, has put its second liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage depot into operation after three months of pre-commission checks, the company said in a news bul...

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), the countrys leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, has expanded its reach in the LNG supply chain by purchasing stakes in five small-sized LNG shipping firms. The acquisitions will boost CN...

Irans oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, said China National Petroleum Corp. must start developing phase 11 of the South Pars gas field by the end of the Iranian year on March 20, 2013, the Tehran Times reported. An agreement was signed more than...

Work June 24 began in Afghanistans first oil project, Fergana News reported June 24, quoting Chinas Peoples Daily. China National Petroleum Corporation and the Afghan government signed a contract in December to drill for oil in the Amu Dary...

China has spent nearly $1 billion on an ultra-deepwater rig that appears intended to explore disputed areas of the South China Sea, one of Asias most volatile hotspots and where the United States is strengthening ties with Beijings rival cl...

China underlined its resolve to continue oil imports from Iran despite the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic by the US and the European Union. Chinese Foreign Ministrys spokesman, Hung Li, said that China will continue to buy Irans...

Chinas Unipec, trading arm of top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp, has requested Iran to deliver July-loading crude cargoes to Chinese ports, ahead of a European insurance ban on Iranian oil exports that takes effect from July 1. There is a comp...

Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/g2qhnj/china_shale_gas_ma ) has announced the addition of the China Shale Gas Market Analysis report to their offering. Shale gas was once considered a nuisance by experts th...

Italian company ENI has sent representatives to evaluate a shale gas block onshore China, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Tuesday. ENI sent a team to inspect and evaluate the Shunan area within the Xinan oil and gas block in...