State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), operator of Petrobrass assets in Peru, is expected to grow oil production this year in the country as part of the new well drilling program in Block X. Petrobras has recently complete...

BERGEN -- Statoil has brought on stream its Valemon platform that will be the first to be remotely controlled from shore. Valemon is one of several new projects on the Norwegian continental shelf that will help add value, activity and innov...

A shale gas development and prospect seminar was held in Guiyang, Southwest Chinas Guizhou province, on December 27, during which Xu Bo, a researcher from the economic and technology research institute of China National Petroleum Corporatio...

In late 1979, I began work on my PhD thesis, an empirical investigation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries surplus and its disposal. It was the end of a decade in which oil prices had undergone two dramatic increases, and...

Chinas first multifunctional offshore engineering ship that can operate 3,000 meters under the water was put into operation on Sunday, a major progress of China to proceed into the deepwater. The Offshore Oil 286 ship, built with an investm...

Sinopec Corp started this week a processing plant in Chinas southwest that treats high-sulphur natural gas pumping from a new field at Yuanba, Sinopec group reported on its website on Thursday. Yuanba, located in Chinas top gas producing pr...

Crude oil brought by ship from the Middle East will be stored at oil tanks on Madae Island in Kyaukpyu Township prior to sending it to China through the recently constructed pipeline, according to a Rakhine State minister. Large 100,000-ton...

The national oil companies, which dominate the industry in China, will benefit the countrys shale gas development over the longer term as the worlds second-largest economy seeks to reduce its dependence on imports, an energy expert said. Me...

Natural gas has replaced charcoal for baking naan, a staple in the Uygur diet, in sparsely populated southern Xinjiang, as local residents bid farewell to bio-fuel burning. Arskar Tursun, manager of a Naan Restaurant in Kuqa County in Aksu...

The Global Quest for Natural Gas The following case study is an excerpt from Breakthroughs latest publication High-Energy Innovation. The report illustrates how energy innovation will increasingly be initiated by developing (as opposed to we...