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• SZ China Natural Gas Bi-weekly Report Mar 16-31, 2013 [Apr. 5, 2013]
• ECF Shale Gas Biweekly Inspector20130325 [Apr. 1, 2013]
• SZ China Natural Gas Bi-weekly Report Mar 1-15, 2013 [Apr. 1, 2013]
• sz China Refining Monthly Report-Mar’2013 [Apr. 1, 2013]
• ECF Shale Gas Biweekly Inspector20130311 [Mar. 15, 2013]

• SZ China Natural Gas Bi-weekly Report Mar 16-31, 2013
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• SZ China Natural Gas Bi-weekly Report Mar 1-15, 2013
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• SZ China LPG Prices Daily Alert May 24, 2013
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• SZ China LPG Prices Daily Alert May 20, 2013
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• SZ China LPG Prices Daily Alert May 17, 2013
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[Apr. 22, 2013] A Chinese oil pipeline project in Myanmar can boost the local economy, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday."The oil pipeline project has undergone scientific study and strict examination and conforms with local regulations and laws," s

[Apr. 12, 2013]  "The residents nearby are seriously afraid and they want to know how the condition of the pipeline will be when the gas is sent through it," she said in a telephone interview. Leakages in the pipeline built by China National Petroleum

[Apr. 12, 2013]  Switzerland-based pumping solutions provider Sulzer Pumps has opened its third service center in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The new service facility will further strengthen the company’s service network in the Chinese market.  

[Apr. 10, 2013] A controversial Chinese pipeline in Burma came under scrutiny on Tuesday, as activists decried two recent explosions at the project that threatened the safety of local residents.The explosions occurred during safety checks late last month at the Shwe gas

[Apr. 2, 2013] The security of the Sino-Burmese oil and gas pipeline cannot be guaranteed, three years after it was started, because of renewed fighting in Kachin State, the Russian Interfax news agency reported last week. Beijing hopes the project will reroute African

[Apr. 2, 2013] A leading oil security expert has weighed in on the potential dangers of operating twin gas and oil pipelines in northern Shan state while fighting continues between the Burma army and the Kachin Independence Organization along the pipeline route.A long s

[Mar. 29, 2013] A year after the launch of landmark financial reforms in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, the city’s top financial official said that they will start to have a deep impact in the year ahead."We’re preparing to launch more policies to ensure more instant a

[Mar. 28, 2013] A natural gas pipeline from Northern Siberia to China. Russian gas giant Gazprom wants to build it, but there’s a problem--the pipeline runs through an area rich in archaeological artifacts. In fact, 27 have been found here on the Ukok plateau. Envi

[Mar. 22, 2013] Not only the U.S and India may be the main participants of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, but also China, political analyst and expert Yuri Sigov from Washington said."China, rather than the U.S can be the main condu

[Mar. 22, 2013] PetroChina Co. aims to speed up overseas acquisitions, exploration and production even after its net profit lagged behind analysts’ expectations, as China’s largest listed oil company by output hopes to secure more resources to feed domestic demand. Beiji

[Mar. 22, 2013] PetroChina Co. aims to speed up overseas acquisitions, exploration and production even after its net profit lagged behind analysts’ expectations, as China’s largest listed oil company by output hopes to secure more resources to feed domestic demand. Beiji

[Mar. 20, 2013] OAO Gazprom (GAZP), the world’s biggest natural-gas producer, is discussing a possible loan from China to help build a $25 billion pipeline to supply the world’s fastest-growing major economy as demand in Europe weakens. While China has confir

[Mar. 19, 2013] Just 18 months after investors sank £580m into Fidelity China Special Situations, the reputation of legendary investor Anthony Bolton nearly sank with them. From a peak of 125p, the trust plummeted to just 70p, a performance much worse than the Chin

[Mar. 18, 2013] On March 13, Lanzhou-Chengdu Crude Pipeline was completed. The 880km-long pipeline extends from the Western Crude Pipeline terminal in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, to Pengzhou terminal station in Sichuan Province, running through Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan pr

[Mar. 18, 2013] Chinese state company PetroChina has completed a new crude oil pipeline linking Lanzhou in northwest Gansu province with Chengdu in central Sichuan province, the company said on its website Friday."From now, there will be 10 million mt/year (200,800

[Mar. 14, 2013] IQ intelligent electric valve actuators offer new levels of functionality and asset management. Their large toughened glass wide-angle indication window is integral for nonintrusive two-way wireless communication and multifunction indication.Thousands of

[Mar. 13, 2013] The chief of Kazakhstan’s oil pipeline monopoly has said it hopes to start working on further pipeline capacity expansion to China in 2013, a move that would deteriorate Russia’s position in the Central Asian oil market.Kairgeldy Kabyldin, the Chief

[Mar. 13, 2013] The Bay of Bengal, India thinks, is its backwaters. It should think again; for Beijing is all set to transform the geo-economics of the Bay of Bengal. The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is about to complete the construction of the natural gas

[Mar. 13, 2013] “In a major development, China has offered [the] loan,” an official at the Pakistan Embassy in Iran told The Express Tribune. The remaining $500 million would be generated through the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess from gas consumers.Paki

[Mar. 11, 2013] Tehran and Islamabad will sign an agreement March 11 for Iran to build the largest refinery in Pakistan, a $4 billion facility at Gwadar in the country’s southwestern Balochistan province. (See map.) The refinery, projected to handle 400,000 barrels per d

[Mar. 8, 2013] Residents of Kyaukphyu are becoming restless as the controversial Shwe Gas and Oil Project nears completion. The township, traumatized by deadly violence between Buddhists and Muslims last year, is host to the offshore gas terminal (OGT) and deep-sea port

[Mar. 7, 2013] The supertanker market will face a drop in ton-mile demand when the 440,000 b/d Myanmar-China crude oil pipeline starts operations in June, inflicting more pain on a sector saddled by chronic tonnage glut and lower earnings, shipping analysts and energy e

[Mar. 6, 2013] Oil rose to $111 a barrel on Tuesday, bucking a five-day losing streak, as the North Sea Brent pipeline remained closed for a third day and investors bet on strong Chinese oil demand.Gains were limited, however, by medium-term concerns such as rising supp

[Feb. 27, 2013] Imagine a country being lucky enough to tap into neighboring sources of oil and natural gas that promise to substantially reduce its heavy dependence on coal and other fuels. Not only that, the new sources would also slash the number of tanker voyages req

[Feb. 26, 2013] BEIJING (Reuters) - Local authorities shut off tap water in Yongxiu County, in Jiangxi Province along the Yangtze River valley, after a leak at an oil products pipeline run by a subsidiary of Sinopec, one of China’s two top oil companies, the Xinhua news

[Feb. 25, 2013] Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has been awarded a US$40 million contract to supply equipment and related services to power the flow of natural gas through the Uzbekistan section of the Turkmenistan-China natural gas pipeline.Rolls-Royce wi

[Feb. 21, 2013] Sun Bo had been instrumental in cutting some of the major transnational oil pipeline deals for China until he died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in December. Liu Xiangrui pays homage to this dedicated oil executive.While the famous "Iron Man"

[Feb. 19, 2013] As per reports, US Department of Commerce posted that they have made preliminary rulings on countervailing oil steel pipe and judged that the rate of subsidization of products from Jiangsu Chengde Steel Tube Share Co, Ltd is1.84% and that from Wuxi Seamle

[Feb. 18, 2013] Russian pipe producer Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant has announced that in February to June 2013 it will supply 200,000 tonnes of large diameter steel pipes for the construction of line C of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline project. The pipes will have

[Feb. 8, 2013] Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2013 -- China Kanghui Holdings (China Kanghui) is a holding company. It develops, manufactures and markets orthopedic implants in China. The company’s product portfolio consist of around 36 product series of orthopedic impl

[Feb. 7, 2013] In May, something curious will happen to the geography of China. The continental-sized country, whose supercharged development has been concentrated in cities on its eastern coast, will gain something it has never had: a western seaboard.An 800km gas pipe

[Feb. 7, 2013] Infrastructure is a basic part of China’s economic-led foreign policy -- around the world, it builds roads and buildings as part of deals to mine, drill, and build energy pipelines. But in neighboring Myanmar, it is taking on the unaccustomed role o

[Feb. 1, 2013]  Set to take over operations of Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar port in the Arabian Sea, China today said the move is part of the continued cooperation between the two countries."China and Pakistan are friendly neighbours. Chinese companies have lon

[Jan. 31, 2013] In May, something curious will happen to the geography of China. The continental-sized country, whose supercharged development has been concentrated in cities on its eastern coast, will gain something it has never had: a western seaboard. An 800km gas pip

[Jan. 30, 2013] BEIJING - A Chinese official said Tuesday that construction will be completed on a gas pipeline from Zhuhai, Guangdong province, to Macao Special Administrative Region before June.China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country’s top offshore oil an

[Jan. 28, 2013] NINGXIA HUI, China (CCTV/CNN) - A 30 meter-high blaze occurred on Friday afternoon in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region after a valve on the West-East natural gas pipeline was damaged.Rescue workers closed the upstream valve immediately afte

[Jan. 28, 2013] Jan. 28 – China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) stated that the long awaited Myanmar-China oil and gas pipelines should be operational by May of this year. The 1,100 kilometer pipeline stretches from Kyaukpyu Port on Myanmar’s central we

[Jan. 24, 2013] The China National Petroleum Corp. said it expects to start moving oil and natural gas through pipelines to Myanmar as early as June.Gao Jianguo, director of Myanmar pipeline projects for CNPC, said pressure tests on oil and natural gas pipelines should s

[Jan. 23, 2013] Chinese energy giant PetroChina expects to begin pumping gas through its Shwe oil and gas pipeline by May, the Financial Times reports. According to an announcement on Monday by CNPC, a parent company of PetroChina, the 793-kilometer pipeline—which

[Jan. 23, 2013] A spokesperson for China National Petroleum Corporation has rebutted complaints that its controversial pipeline project to transport offshore oil and gas from Rakhine State to China has failed to compensate people who lost land to it.The spokesperson also

[Jan. 23, 2013] China is set to operationalise its 1,100-kilometre-long oil and natural gas pipelines with Myanmar later this year that will give the Communist state first ever access to the strategic Bay of Bengal.  The pipelines - billed as Beijing’s "new str

[Jan. 18, 2013] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has signed a cooperation framework agreement with Shenergy Group and Yangkou Port Co. Ltd. to build the Rudong-Haimen-Chongming natural gas pipeline. The 89.5-km pipeline will deliver 2.4 billion cu m/year from Jiangs

[Jan. 14, 2013] VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--Hanwei Energy Services Corp. (TSX:HE) ("Hanwei" or the "Company"), today announced that it has been awarded a new $3.9 million order, placed by an existing Kazakhstan client, for the supply of the Company’s

[Jan. 7, 2013] A China-Russia oil pipeline has transported 30 million tons of crude oil two years since it began operating, the Chinese operator of the pipeline said Tuesday. The pipeline, which delivers oil from Russia’s far-eastern region to fuel-hungry China thr

[Dec. 26, 2012]  Kazakhstan is a country that does not have access to open sea. Therefore, access to export markets, primarily through main pipelines is crucial for the country. Today, the following pipeline projects are developed in the country:Caspian Pipeline Con

[Dec. 26, 2012] Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled the final extension of a new US$25 billion oil pipeline to the Pacific that underscores the energy power’s gradual shift away from stagnant European markets. The East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) link is also expe

[Dec. 21, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp has commissioned a trunkline of its Second West-East gas pipeline that links Shenzhen in southern Guangdong province and Hong Kong, the company said Thursday.Gas started flowing through the spur on Wednesday and successfully

[Dec. 20, 2012] China’s second west-to-east gas pipeline is ready to supply natural gas to Hong Kong, as branch lines linking Hong Kong with the pipeline went into operation on Wednesday, according to the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).The pipeline, which wi

[Dec. 5, 2012] Kyrgyzstan aims to join a natural gas pipeline network linking Central Asia with China in order to reduce its reliance on its immediate neighbours for energy and to profit from transit fees.Kyrgyzstan’s government has agreed with Beijing to discuss the co

[Nov. 13, 2012] Our daily round-up of the best China stories from the 21st Century Business Herald CPC to set up 4 party-building mechanisms by 2020 Wang Jingqing, Vice Minister of The Organizing Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) introduced the undertaken works of party building in the first press conference following the opening of the 18th National Congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) at 3 pm, Nov, 9.

[Nov. 12, 2012] Myanmar engineers taking part in training in China before working on a pipeline project have expressed frustration over what they say are unfair differences in pay between Myanmar and Chinese workers. The 58 trainees are attending a three-month course on pipeline operation at the Southwest Petroleum University in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

[Nov. 12, 2012] Wang Jingqing, Vice Minister of The Organizing Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) introduced the undertake works of party building in the first press conference held after the opening of the 18th National Congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) at 3 pm, Nov, 9.

[Nov. 12, 2012] Kairkeldy Kabyldin, the Director General of KazTransOil, has been cited as saying that the Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline will start working at its full capacity by 2014. “Commercial talks are currently underway between Chinese and Kazakhstan representatives. We launched the oil pipeline with a capacity of 10 million tpy in 2005 and last year we increased it to 14 million tpy. The nominal capacity is 20 million tpy. According to the agreement with China, we are planning to bring Atasu-Alashankou section to 20 million tpy to ensure sufficient supplies to China,” Kabyldin said.

[Nov. 7, 2012] Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline will start working at its full capacity by 2014, Tengrinews.kz reports citing Director General of KazTransOil Kairkeldy Kabyldin.“Commercial talks are currently underway between Chinese and Kazakhstan representatives. W

[Oct. 31, 2012] TransCanada Corp. and a unit of PetroChina Co. agreed to develop a $3 billion oil pipeline to ship crude from oil-sands projects in northern Alberta. TransCanada and Phoenix Energy Holdings Ltd. will each own 50 percent of the proposed Grand Rapids Pipeline, which will ship oil 310 miles from the Fort McMurray oil- sands production area to Edmonton, according to a statement this week.

[Oct. 30, 2012] TRANSCANADA Corp and a unit of PetroChina Co Ltd agreed to develop a C$3 billion (US$3 billion) oil pipeline to ship crude from oil-sands projects in northern Alberta.

[Oct. 29, 2012] The length of China’s oil and gas pipelines reached more than 90,000 kilometers by now, more than triple that of in ten years ago, while the country will still witness a rapid expansion of oil and gas pipeline networks in the next 5-10 years during advent of the fresh peak period of oil and natural gas pipelines construction said Zhao Yujian, head of China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

[Oct. 26, 2012] A groundbreaking ceremony for the commencement of construction on the 7,378 km Third West-East Gas Pipeline was recently held in Beijing, China. The pipeline project consists of one trunk line, eight branches, three gas storage facilities, and one LNG station.

[Oct. 24, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. has started construction of the country’s Third West-East Gas Pipeline (WEPP 3), comprising 7,378 km spread over one trunkline and eight branches. Three gas storage sites and one LNG liquefaction plant are also part of the project.

[Sept. 19, 2012] One of the reasons that I am in China just now is that Uppsala University is discussing increased collaboration with the Chinese University of Petroleum in Beijing, CUPB. It is Professor Feng of the School of Business Administration at CUPB that leads research on Peak Oil at that university. He has just organised a workshop with the theme “The Impacts of Peak Oil”.

[Sept. 18, 2012] National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has completed construction of a 30 billion cubic meter per year (bcm/y) pipeline that will transmit output from coal-to-gas (CTG) projects in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, local media reported. The pipeline will pump synthetic natural gas (SNG) from the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture to Khorgas city on Chinas border with Kazakhstan, where CNPCs 3rd West-East Gas Pipeline begins, according to a report by news website iyaxin.com.

[Sept. 18, 2012] New Times Energy Corporation Limited announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau to jointly develop China and overseas oil and gas business.

[Sept. 4, 2012] China interested in construction of oil pipeline Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan-China and the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through the South of Kyrgyzstan. The September 2, 2012, following meetings with the Chinese side in Urumqi said the Acting Minister of econ

[Sept. 4, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has completed construction of a 30 billion cubic meter per year (bcm/y) pipeline that will transmit output from coal-to-gas (CTG) projects in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, local media reported on Sunday.The p

[Sept. 4, 2012] The China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau received a letter of acceptance from the Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company announcing that the China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline project line C was officially launched on August 1.The construction of line C will ensure the

[Aug. 24, 2012] Construction of an oil products pipeline from north China’s Liaoning Province to central Henan Province has officially started, the project’s builder and operator China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) said on Thursday. The 1,636-kilometer pipeline will run from Liaoning’s Jinzhou City to Zhengzhou City in Henan via Hebei Province and Tianjin Municipality, said CNPC.

[Aug. 22, 2012] Turkmengeology State Corporation intends to sign with a consortium of Tianjin Pipe International Economic & Trading Corporation and the Beijing Guochuang Xingye Sci-Teck Co., Ltd. China (PRC) contract for the purchase of equipment for the development of the country’s largest gas field, Galkynysh, an official Turkmen source said on Saturday.

[Aug. 20, 2012] Chinese oil and gas giant Sinopec will help Ghana lay pipes for the first phase of its National Gas Processing Project in August as part of plans to ramp up LNG supply to the country, it emerged on Thursday. CEO of Ghana Gas Company Limited, George Spia-Yankey announced the news to reporters on Wednesday at the Takoradi thermal power plant, southern Ghana.

[Aug. 14, 2012] China Shipbuilding Industry Corp or CSIC, the parent of China Shipbuilding Industry Co Ltd<601989>, said today that it plans to issue RMB 10 billion worth of unsecured medium-term notes with a maturity of five years on the interbank market on Aug. 16.

[Aug. 13, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. started construction of a new southern spur of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline network in Kazakhstan.

[Aug. 8, 2012] Construction and commissioning of the first and second lines of the first section of the Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline have been completed, the Kazakh Oil and Gas Ministry said, Trend news agency reported.

[Aug. 6, 2012] Interfax-China reported that Shenzhen Nanshan Power Co Ltd is in talks to offtake inexpensive pipeline gas from China National Petroleum Corp.

[Aug. 6, 2012] ASTANA. August 3. KAZINFORM Presently, the construction is completed and the first and second lines of the first section of “Kazakhstan-China” gas pipeline have been put into service, the press service of the Ministry of Oil and Gas of Kazakhstan informs.

[Aug. 1, 2012] STWA, Inc. (OTCBB: ZERO) ("STWA" or the "Company"), a developer of applied solutions for oil and fuel delivery systems in the multi-billion dollar oil pipeline and diesel engine markets, announced today that its groundbreaking oil pipeline energy-efficiency system has been loaded for shipment to China. The unit is being transported to begin Phase II of the three-Phase commercialization acceptance process as mandated by China Petroleum Pipeline Administration (CPP). The testing is to be conducted at the CPP/CNPC PetroChina Pipeline R&D Center in Langfang, China.

[Jul. 23, 2012] Sinopec wins race for Ghana gas pipeline project A Chinese firm overtook its main competitors from India in the race for a major gas pipeline project in West Africa, it emerged on Thursday.Chinese state-run oil and gas firm Sinopec was Ghana’s compa

[Jul. 18, 2012] On July 15, the commissioning ceremony of Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline project was held at the Fujairah Port where the pipeline’s land terminal station is located. The project, with CNPC as the EPC contractor, integrates land and marine sections and is ca

[Jul. 16, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has put a new pipeline into operation that cuts the distance for Central Asian gas travelling to southwest China by 1,200 kilometers (km), state media reported on Thursday.The northern section of the Zhonggui Gas Pipe

[Jul. 16, 2012]  STWA, Inc. /quotes/zigman/156067/quotes/nls/zero ZERO +6.82% ("STWA" or the "Company"), a developer of applied solutions for oil and fuel delivery systems in the multi-billion dollar oil pipeline and diesel engine markets, today

[Jul. 11, 2012] Dongguan, a manufacturing center in Guangdong Province, has begun receiving Central Asian gas from China National Petroleum Corp.’s 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline.

[Jul. 5, 2012] Guangdong Province, a major coastal manufacturing center in the Pearl River Delta, has set a transportation tariff for offtake from the 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP II), the Guangdong Provincial Pricing Bureau (GPPB) said in a news bulletin issued on T

[Jul. 3, 2012] It will take more than a new spigot on Canada’s West Coast for Alberta oil producers to win significant market share in the Far East, Calgary executives are being told. China is not waiting with baited breath for tanker-loads of Alberta bitumen to wash up on its shores. “They have other options,” Reynold Tetzlaff, national energy leader with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, told a Calgary crowd this spring.

[Jul. 3, 2012] XinyangRefined oilPipeline and download library project in Xinyang started.Sinopec Zhumadian Xinyang oil pipeline and download library project is a provincial key projects, key projects and Sinopec, Sinopec Xinyang city hall and strategic cooperation for development projects.

[Jun. 29, 2012] Zhejiang, an affluent province on China’s east coast, will begin receiving Central Asian gas from China National Petroleum Corp.’s 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline in July, according to a report in the local Morning Post newspaper .

[Jun. 29, 2012] CONSTRUCTION of the 532-kilometre natural gas pipeline from Mnazi Bay in Mtwara to Dar es Salaam is expected to start soon following the signing of 1.2 billion US dollars credit agreement (about 1.92tri/) between Tanzania and Exim Bank of China.The projec

[Jun. 25, 2012] In efforts to end perennial power crisis, the Ministry of Energy and Minerals has announced that Tanzania and China has concluded a financial deal for the construction of a gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam.The minister, Professor Sospeter Muhongo

[Jun. 20, 2012] The Chinese government and Afghan President Hamid Karzai envisage a pipeline to deliver Turkmenistani gas, via Afghanistan’s north and through Tajikistan, to China. This could become a rival or a substitute to the US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-

[Jun. 11, 2012] Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain remained successful in convincing the Chinese leadership during their recent visit to China to take part in the bidding for the construction of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline

[Jun. 7, 2012] Details have emerged of a landmark plan by China’s top two energy producers to connect their largest gas pipelines at a juncture in Hubei Province’s Wuxue City.

[Jun. 6, 2012] Turkmenistan has transported more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China in more than 900 days using the Central Asia-China Pipeline, an amount making up a fifth of the gas China used last year.Of the 30 bcm, about 10.7 bcm came from the CNP

[Jun. 5, 2012] We see Canada growing to close to five million barrels a day by 2025, 2026," Greg Stingham, the vice-president for Oil Sands and Markets at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says. "We’re looking to place two million barrels a day f

[Jun. 1, 2012] PetroChina has signed up three new stakeholders, including a domestic private investment vehicle, to participate in the planned 3rd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP III) at a ceremony in Beijing yesterday.

[Jun. 1, 2012] Chinese National Petroleum Corp has signed framework agreements with local state-owned and private companies to secure funding for the Third West-East natural gas pipeline, the company said Thursday.The agreements were inked Wednesday in Beijing with Baos

[May 28, 2012] A broken pipeline in Shandong province has been repaired after diesel leaked from it, local authorities said Saturday.As of 11:30 am Saturday, the broken section of the oil pipeline in the city of Zibo had been fixed after construction workers damaged it,

[May 24, 2012] China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has ordered PetroChina Co. Ltd. to cease construction on the Zhongwei-Guiyang Gas Pipeline and has imposed a fine of RMB 200,000 ($31,593) on the company for not obtaining environmental approvals prior to

[May 24, 2012] PetroChina Co, Asia’s largest oil and gas producer by market value, disclosed yesterday that China’s new natural gas transmission pipeline project will have investment from private companies.However, analysts said that "only opening" China’s pet

[May 21, 2012] China’s first deep-water pipe-laying crane vessel will set sail on its maiden voyage Saturday from the eastern port of Qingdao to the South China Sea.A spokesman with the Qingdao marine affairs department said Friday that the bureau is completing final ch

[May 21, 2012] China’s first deepwater pipe-laying crane vessel set off from the coastal city of Qingdao on May 15, bound for the South China Sea, for trial operations.The vessel is another part of the nation’s expansion of offshore energy exploration and production, fo

[Apr. 30, 2012] The South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly cut short his five-day visit to China as the latter showed reluctance to give green light for Juba’s request that Beijing finance an alternative oil pipeline.

[Apr. 27, 2012] China would make investment decisions regarding South Sudan’s oil sector based on commercial prospects not the political climate, an analyst said.

[Apr. 27, 2012] Uzbekistan is in talks with neighbouring Kazakhstan to ship its natural gas via a pipeline running from ex-Soviet Central Asia to China, Kazakhstan’s state gas transportation company KazTransGas said on Thursday.

[Apr. 27, 2012] China’s flagship West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP) network is close to operating at its full capacity of 30 billion cubic metres per year, a development that will limit growth of gas sales in 2012, Wang Xiaoping, an executive with PetroChina, told Interfax on Wednesday.

[Apr. 27, 2012] China’s flagship West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP) network is close to operating at its current maximum transmission capacity of 30 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y), a development that will limit growth of gas sales in 2012, Wang Xiaoping, an executive with PetroChina Co. Ltd., told Interfax on Wednesday.

[Apr. 27, 2012] The South Sudanese president Salva Kiir unexpectedly cut short his five-day visit to China as the latter showed reluctance to give green light for Juba’s request that Beijing finance an alternative oil pipeline.

[Apr. 25, 2012] In a further sign of China’s push to expand the country’s natural gas distribution network, leading longitudinal submerged arc welded (LSAW) pipe producer Chu Kong Petroleum and Natural Gas Steel Pipe Holdings Ltd. posted a 228.5 percent profit jump in 2011, according to results released late Monday.

[Apr. 25, 2012] Taiyuan, capital of northern China’s Shanxi Province, will deploy more than RMB 3 billion ($475.57 million) this year to expand its natural gas pipeline network, a source with the local arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) told Interfax on Tuesday.

[Apr. 13, 2012] Iran plans to export gas to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and China, Iranian Ambassador to Tajikistan Aliasgar Sherdust said, Trend reports on Wednesday.

[Mar. 5, 2012] China on Friday kicked off a project to build the eastern most part of its second West-East natural gas pipeline to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a move to increase the energy-scarce city’s access to the fuel. The pipeline will runs over t

[Mar. 5, 2012] PetroChina, Asia’s largest oil and gas producer, will not buy extra Russian crude oil via the Russia-China pipeline, the company chief said on Monday, after the two sides recently resolved a price dispute.Jiang Jiemin, chairman of PetroChina, also said Ch

[Mar. 5, 2012] Guangxi CNPC Kunlun Natural Gas Co. Ltd., a unit of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has started construction of a RMB 5.8 billion ($920.40 million) gas project in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local media reported March 1.

[Feb. 27, 2012] The Zhongwei-Guiyang Pipeline, operated by China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), is set to transmit four billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality this year once it comes online in June, the state-run Chongqing Dail

[Feb. 24, 2012] Recently, guangxi yulin city live is built appoint to the yulin city city gas special planning (2010-2020) "(referred to as" the planning ") in public. According to the plan, the next 10 years in yulin city planning and construction will be three pipe-conveying gas receiving door stood, medium voltage network set up 270 kilometers, construction and a car LPG stations. To 2020, the natural gas QiHuaLv will reach to 70-80%, and natural gas pipeline in the city will sing leading role gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) withdraw into suburban, villages and towns, rural areas.

[Feb. 21, 2012] The Irrawaddy River Crossing Project, a key project of the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline, had been completed on Feb. 15.This indicates that the construction of the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline has made an important breakthrough. 

[Feb. 21, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) is conducting an environmental impact assessment on the long-awaited 3rd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP III), according to a report released last week by China International Capital Corp. Ltd. (CICC).

[Feb. 21, 2012] China’s west-east gas pipelines transported 36 billion cubic meters of natural gas to 18 provincial-level areas in 2011, up 11.5 billion cubic meters from one year earlier, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said Monday.By the end of last yea

[Feb. 13, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Zhongwu Natural Gas Pipeline supplied approximately 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to the provinces of Hunan and Hubei since entering operations in 2004, CNPC announced Feb. 10.

[Feb. 10, 2012] The Lancheng Crude Oil Pipeline, linking western Sichuan Province to Gansu Province in the north, is expected to go on-line within the next few months, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the owner-operator of the line, said in a project report Feb. 9.

[Feb. 8, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Kela-2 Gasfield in Baicheng County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has supplied 62.2 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas to the West-East Natural Gas Pipeline (WEP) network as of Jan. 31, a Baicheng County

[Feb. 6, 2012] The annual import volume of China–Kazakhstan oil pipeline, China’s first transnational crude oil pipeline, hit a new high in 2011, with a total import volume of 10.93 megatons, up 10.3 percent compared with last year.Since the China–Kazakhstan

[Feb. 3, 2012] China’s flagship West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP) boosted gas deliveries by 46.9 percent from a year earlier to 36 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2011, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the network’s operator, announced on Wednesday.

[Feb. 3, 2012] China’s first transnational crude oil pipeline, the China-Kazakhstan Pipeline, allowed China to import 10.93 million tonnes of crude oil last year, authorities in west China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said Thursday.Statistics from the local govern

[Jan. 31, 2012] In a village gym on the British Columbia coast, the newest episode in Canada’s pursuit to become a full blown oil superpower was unfolded. Hundreds of people congregated for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific in order to transport oil to Asia mainly China. For the village of Kitamaat and its neighbors, the risks are very high because the pipeline would end here and a port would also be constructed to handle at least 220 tankers a year and 525,000 barrels of oil a single day. This oil pipeline is expected to shape North America’s potential energy relationship with China.

[Jan. 31, 2012] The oil-producer nation last week said it suspended the refinery accord after the government and CNPC failed to agree on a price of fuel coming out of the 20,000 bpd plant, which has been temporarily closed due to financial losses only months after its inauguration.

[Jan. 30, 2012] Burmese soldiers have been withdrawn from conflict zones in Kachin state as both sides push for ceasefire talks, but reports from nearby Shan state suggest extra battalions have been deployed to guard the lucrative China-backed Shwe pipeline.The movement

[Jan. 20, 2012] China’s offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC said it has "temporarily repaired" a leak at a subsea gas pipeline at the Zhuhai Hengqin gas processing terminal in southern Guangdong province and partial gas supply has resumed, according to a report

[Jan. 19, 2012] STWA, Inc. /quotes/zigman/156067 ZERO +4.35% ("STWA" or the "Company"), a developer of energy efficiency technologies in the multi-billion dollar oil pipeline and diesel engine markets, today announced that the Company’s Chairman and C

[Jan. 17, 2012] China National Offshore Oil Corp. Ltd. (CNOOC Ltd.) has completed temporary repairs to an undersea gas pipeline that ruptured on Dec. 19 in the South China Sea, CNOOC Ltd. confirmed to Interfax on Monday.

[Jan. 16, 2012]  China has received more than 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas through the Central Asia-China gas pipeline as of January 7, said China National Petroleum Corp or CNPC, the parent company of PetroChina Co Ltd<601857><0857>, in a stat

[Jan. 13, 2012] Not long ago (in historical terms) the Government of Canada launched a national energy program in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The objective was to promote Canadian ownership of our oil resources and to develop alternative energy sources. Events

[Jan. 12, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) announced Wednesday that it has accelerated pipeline imports of natural gas from Central Asia since the end of 2009. The company did not provide precise details in the announcement, but noted that Central Asia has sup

[Jan. 11, 2012] In order to meet energy demands in its resource-crunched eastern, southern and central parts, China is constructing oil and gas pipelines in Myanmar, almost reaching to the seashores of Bay of Bengal. Currently, the China National Petroleum Corporation (C

[Jan. 10, 2012] South Korean shipbuilding heavyweights Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries are considering a joint bid for a French engineering company to prevent a Chinese rival from challenging their domination of the global LNG carrier market, according to a report by Reuters that cited sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The report says that the South Korean trio is mulling over a $1.3 billion (1 million euros) bid for GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz), a marine engineering company that specializes in systems for storing liquefied natural gas.

[Jan. 10, 2012] Details on the route of the domestic section of China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) China-Myanmar pipeline were disclosed by the Guizhou arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (Guizhou NDRC) in late December, indicating that the parallel oil and gas lines will split in the city of Anshun, before the gas line tracks south to its terminus in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

[Jan. 10, 2012] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) will issue RMB 20 billion ($3.16 billion) worth of corporate bonds to help fund construction of its 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP II), according to a bond prospectus filed on Monday with China Central Depository &am

[Jan. 10, 2012] Details on the route of the domestic section of China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) China-Myanmar pipeline were disclosed by the Guizhou arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (Guizhou NDRC) in late December, indicating that the paralle

[Jan. 6, 2012] The nearly 1,000-kilometer-long China-Russia oil pipeline had transported more than 15 million tons of crude oil from Russia to northeast China as of 00:47 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2012. The pipeline has met all required economic and technical standards, and been

[Jan. 5, 2012] The Sino-Russia Oil Pipeline transmitted 15 million tons of crude oil last year, according to statistics released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Jan. 4.

[Jan. 4, 2012] China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec Group) has agreed to source synthetic natural gas (SNG) from nine firms for two cross-country SNG pipelines, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

[Jan. 3, 2012] The first cross-country oil pipeline to carry oil from Russia to energy-hungry China transported roughly 15 million tonnes of crude in its first year of operation, with the two countries aiming to double the output in future.China and Russia marked the fi

[Jan. 3, 2012] The oil pipeline linking Russia’s far east and Northeast China witnessed its one year anniversary of operation last Sunday, as operators announced an accumulated 15 million tonnes of oil had been transported into China in 2011."The test results of th

[Jan. 3, 2012] The “Russia-China” oil pipeline pumped 15 mln tons of raw oil in 2011 in total.This figure corresponds with the annual amount of oil, which, according to a relevant agreement, Russia plans to pump to China within the next 20 years.In January,

[Jan. 2, 2012] PetroChina Co Ltd and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) have signed an agreement with the Zhejiang government on six petrochemical projects worth 139.1 bln yuan (US$22 bln), as per China Securities Journal .  The report said the two compa

[Jan. 2, 2012] China’s major oil and gas company China Petrochemical Corp(Sinopec Group) signed agreements with nine domestic energy companies on Friday to secure supply for its Xinjiang gas pipelines project, the company said in a statement. The nine companies inc

[Jan. 2, 2012] China’s major oil and gas company China Petrochemical Corp(Sinopec Group) signed agreements with nine domestic energy companies on Friday to secure supply for its Xinjiang gas pipelines project, the company said in a statement.The nine companies included

[Dec. 30, 2011] CNOOC, China’s largest offshore energy explorer, said Friday that the leak in its natural gas pipeline in Zhuhai, a city in south China’s Guangdong province, two weeks ago was caused by mechanical sand dredging.Gao Guangsheng, vice general manager of CNOO

[Dec. 29, 2011] STWA announced on December 21, 2011 that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Beijing Heng He Xing Ye Technology Development Co., Ltd for licensing, sales and distribution of STWA’s Applied Oil Technology™ into the Chinese market.Recently, the Stat

[Dec. 28, 2011]  On the heels of announcing a Letter of Intent to commercialize its oil pipeline efficiency technology in China, STWA, Inc. /quotes/zigman/156067 ZERO +1.27% ("STWA" or the "Company"), a developer of energy efficiency technologies

[Dec. 28, 2011] Thailand and China want to work together to support each other’s entry into Burma, partly through the deep-sea port in Dawei being developed by a Thai company.Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na- Ranong said Asean connectivity with the Greater Mekong Subre

[Dec. 28, 2011]  On the heels of announcing a Letter of Intent to commercialize its oil pipeline efficiency technology in China, STWA, Inc. /quotes/zigman/156067 ZERO +1.27% ("STWA" or the "Company"), a developer of energy efficiency technologies

[Dec. 26, 2011] The first phase of a coalbed methane (CBM) pipeline in central China’s Shanxi Province has begun pre-commission checks, state-run Shanxi Gas Industry Group Co. Ltd., the pipeline’s operator, announced on Thursday.The pipeline forms a major part of Shanxi’

[Dec. 23, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has signed an engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract with three of its subsidiaries to build the undersea section of the 2nd West-East Natural Gas Pipeline’s (WEP II) Hong Kong-Shenzhen spur,

[Dec. 23, 2011] CNOOC, China’s largest offshore energy explorer, said Thursday that it will repair a leaking pipeline after inert gas replaces natural gas in the South China Sea, and no oil spill was reported.The undersea pipeline will be repaired after nitrogen replaces

[Dec. 22, 2011] Media photos of flames floating this week on the surface of the South China Sea appear to challenge a contention from China National Offshore Oil Corp. that an undersea gas leak it reported caused no environmental pollution.Cnooc Ltd., a unit of the state

[Dec. 21, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) is dividing operational responsibility for its long-distance gas pipelines among five subsidiaries, designating operational control along regional lines, CNPC announced on Monday.

[Dec. 21, 2011] CNOOC Ltd. halted operations at two offshore platforms near Hong Kong on Monday due to a leaking undersea gas pipeline attached to the Zhuhai terminal, CNOOC said in a statement issued Monday.

[Dec. 20, 2011] Ceremony of launch of construction of the third line of Uzbekistan-China gas pipeline was held after two years from commissioning of the first line of Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China and compressor station No. 1, which is located in Uzbekistan, r

[Dec. 20, 2011] The Second East-West Gas Pipeline, designed to deliver 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually, will travel 8,653 kilometers through 15 provinces and regions from Xinjiang’s Horgos in the west to Shanghai in the east, and to Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the

[Dec. 19, 2011] Construction began Thursday on the Uzbek section of the Central Asia-China Natural Gas Pipeline’s (CACP) third trunk line, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), a partner on the project, announced on Friday.

[Dec. 15, 2011] Luoyang City in Henan Province will begin receiving natural gas from the 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP II) in March 2012 once a connecting pipeline has undergone three months of pre-commission checks, state-run Luoyang Daily reported on Wednesday.

[Dec. 14, 2011] According to latest statistics from Customs of China, China’s welded pipe exports in October increased by 14 percent to 282,766 tonnes on the strong demands from oil and natural gas industries.In October, China welded pipe shipments surged by 37% in compa

[Dec. 9, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) is inviting bids for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the 3rd West-East Gas Pipeline’s (WEP III) western section, Huang Changming, a CNPC official, confirmed to Interfax today.

[Dec. 8, 2011] China’s first homegrown compressor unit for long-distance gas pipelines has passed final checks by the National Energy Administration (NEA), demonstrating that the country now has the core competency to produce a vital component of gas transmission networ

[Dec. 8, 2011] Pristine wilderness in a remote corner of Siberia and a Stone Age archaeological legacy notwithstanding, Russia and China are working furiously to complete a natural gas pipeline agreement that would see the fragile Ukok Plateau in Russia’s Altai Republic

[Dec. 8, 2011] Ceremonies were recently simultaneously held in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China, to celebrate the arrival of natural gas from Turkmenistan through the 6,811 km Central Asia – China Gas Pipeline, and the 8,704 km Second West-East Gas Pipeline.Turkmen P

[Dec. 6, 2011] The, pipe-laying vessel ZHONG YOU HAI 101 recently left the Port of Qingdao and expected to arrive at the Shenzhen-Hong Kong waters within days and get ready for construction of the final part of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline.Due to geographical reaso

[Dec. 2, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has signed a sales contract with Dongguan Xinao Gas Co. Ltd. (Xinao Gas), a gas distributor, to supply 800 million cubic meters (MMcm) of natural gas per year to Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, Xinao Gas announce

[Dec. 1, 2011]  The Guangdong provincial government yesterday released a long-awaited construction and operation plan for the province’s gas pipeline network.

[Nov. 29, 2011] Jiangxi Provincial Natural Gas Investment Co. Ltd. (Jiangxi Gas) is inviting bids for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of a gas pipeline network in Jiangxi Province, Hu Bin, a Jiangxi Gas representative, confirmed with Interfax Nov. 28

[Nov. 29, 2011] Gaoyou City in western Jiangsu Province will begin receiving natural gas from the China National Petroleum Corp.-operated (CNPC) 1st West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP I) in March 2012, the Gaoyou municipal government announced on Friday.

[Nov. 25, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Qinshen pipeline in Liaoning Province has transmitted 778 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas since going online on June 18 this year, PetroChina Liaohe Oilfield Co. (PetroChina Liaohe), the pipeline’s operato

[Nov. 25, 2011] The National Energy Administration (NEA), China’s energy regulator, has approved plans to begin preliminary work on the 3rd Jingbian-Xi’an Pipeline in Shaanxi Province, the Shaanxi arm of the National Development and Reform Commission (Shaanxi NDRC) said

[Nov. 25, 2011] Chinese state media say 14 senior oil managers will be charged and 29 others disciplined for an oil pipeline explosion in northeast China.The July 2010 explosion near Dalian city caused China’s worst known oil spill and an environmental crisis.Xinhu

[Nov. 24, 2011] Changfeng Energy Inc., /quotes/zigman/492959 CA:CFY -8.33% ("Changfeng" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce today that the Company has begun construction of pipelines and related facilities in Xiangdong district, Pingxiang City,

[Nov. 22, 2011] Hubei Province’s Shiyan City will begin receiving natural gas from China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) once an extension of the 2nd West-East Gas Pipeline (WEP II) becomes operational next month, an official with the Shiyan municipal government told Int

[Nov. 21, 2011] China’s third West-to-East gas pipeline is expected to become operational by the end of 2013 and will carry about 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually, mainly from Central Asia to southeastern China’s Fujian province, a company source said on Wed

[Nov. 18, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country’s largest gas pipeline operator, will complete construction of the long-awaited 3rd West-East Pipeline (WEP III) by the end of 2013, a top executive with a CNPC subsidiary said Nov. 16 at the 3rd Asia Pip

[Nov. 18, 2011] China’s third West-to-East gas pipeline is expected to become operational by the end of 2013 and will carry about 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually, mainly from Central Asia to southeastern China’s Fujian province, a company source said on Wed

[Nov. 17, 2011] China’s third West-to-East gas pipeline is expected to become operational by the end of 2013 and will carry about 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually, mainly from Central Asia to southeastern China’s Fujian province, a company source said on Wednesday. The 5,200 kilometer (km) project will include one artery, six branch lines, three gas storage facilities and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, the source said, adding that the pipeline will run from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to the city of Fuzhou in Fujian province.

[Nov. 17, 2011] State-owned energy giant China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) plans to install approximately 30,000 kilometers (km) gas pipeline over the next five years, nearly doubling the length of its current network, a CNPC official said at the 3rd Asia Pipeline Summit in Beijing Nov.16.

[Nov. 14, 2011] Gas piped through the Sino-Myanmar pipeline is set to be distributed in Panzhihua City in southern Sichuan Province by a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Kunlun Energy Co. Ltd

[Nov. 14, 2011] The White House plan to seek alternate routes for a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline presents a tangle of new problems for the project _ with the potential to sink it altogether.Shifting the route around a major aquifer could mean more perilous stream crossin

[Nov. 11, 2011] A third pipeline linking the Daniudi Gasfield with the Yulin-Jinan pipeline network went on-line Nov. 7, boosting the gasfield’s annual transmission capacity to 3.5 billion cubic meters (bcm), China Petrochemical Corp.’s (Sinopec Group), the field’s opera

[Nov. 11, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has begun testing the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture section of its Southwestern Gansu Gas Pipeline (SGGP) in Gansu Province, the Linxia municipal government announced Nov. 10.

[Nov. 11, 2011]  Despite what you may think, the delay or even cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to the United States does not ensure that China will become the go-to customer for Canada’s vast oil sands.U.S. President Barack Obama has opt

[Nov. 10, 2011] The Beijing Municipality counties of Huairou and Miyun will begin receiving natural gas from the 2nd Shaanxi-Beijing Gas Pipeline (SBGPII) by Nov. 15, Beijing Gas Group Co. Ltd., the local gas distributor, told Interfax Nov. 9.

[Nov. 9, 2011] Construction has begun on a pipeline spur that will link Xinyang City in Henan Province to the 2nd West-East Pipeline (WEP II), Hongchang Gas Pipeline Engineering Co. Ltd. (Hongchang Gas), a local gas distributor, announced Nov. 8.

[Nov. 8, 2011] Beijing Urban Construction Group Co. Ltd. (BUCG) has a won a tender to build a $280 million gas pipeline in Mozambique, a BUCG official, Liu Jian, confirmed Nov. 7.

[Nov. 2, 2011] Shanxi Province-based Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co. (Taiyuan Steel) has announced that its subsidiary in Chengdu, Sichuan Province has signed a contract with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to supply 300 mt of stainless ste

[Nov. 1, 2011] China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), the country’s third-largest oil and gas producer, has completed a feasibility study for a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage project in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, CNOOC announced Oct. 28.

[Oct. 28, 2011] Shanghai. October 27. INTERFAX-CHINA - Anhui Provincial Gas Co. Ltd. (Anhui Gas) has agreed to relocate a section of the Jiangbei Link pipeline, ending a dispute concerning the land on which the section is built, a source with Anhui Gas told Interfax Oct.

[Oct. 27, 2011] With new pipeline infrastructure and terminals in place, northern and western China are unlikely to experience natural gas shortages this winter, but the supply situation in southern regions is less certain, the National Development and Reform Commission

[Oct. 26, 2011] * Link to carry 500,000 bpd of oil* Will help speed up development of new fieldsRussia, the world’s biggest crude producer, has launched an oil pipeline that will facilitate the steady supply of 300,000 barrels per day to energy-hungry China and speed up

[Oct. 18, 2011] RIA Novosti reported that tRussia Transneft oil pipeline monopoly resumed oil supplies to China via the Eastern Siberia Pacific Ocean pipeline halted earlier on Friday following a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in the far eastern Amur region.Spokesman Mr Igor D

[Sept. 22, 2011] China and Tanzania are expected to sign a US$1.06 billion loan deal for the construction of a natural gas pipeline from the southern part of the East African country to its commercial capital, a Tanzanian newspaper has quoted the country’s energy mi

[Sept. 22, 2011] The second phase of Jiangxi Province’s natural gas pipeline network has started limited operations, according to a terse statement released by the Jiangxi Energy Bureau (JEB) Sept. 21.

[Sept. 21, 2011] Envoys from South and North Korea are expected to meet in Beijing on Wednesday.  It will be the latest attempt to get multinational talks about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program back up and running after a nearly three-year stalemate. 

[Sept. 20, 2011] China and Tanzania are expected to sign a $1.06 billion loan deal to build a natural gas pipeline from the southern part of the east African country to its commercial capital, a Tanzanian newspaper quoted its energy minister as saying.Last month, Energy a

[Sept. 15, 2011] A ceremony has been held in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, to mark the commencement of welding on Phase II of the Kazakhstan – China gas pipeline.Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev read a congratulatory letter from Kazakh President Nursultan Naza

[Sept. 15, 2011] China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) Zhongcang Pipeline has transmitted more than 500 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas this year to end users in three provinces as of Sept. 10, CNPC announced Sept. 14.

[Sept. 15, 2011] Shandong Province’s Yiyuan County began receiving natural gas from China National Petroleum Corp.’s (CNPC) West-East Gas Pipeline Network (WEPI and WEPII) on Sept. 12, the county Government announced Sept. 12. 

[Sept. 14, 2011] Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed gas distributor Zhongyu Gas Holdings Ltd. (Zhongyu Gas) has agreed to fully acquire natural gas pipeline operator Nanjing Jinqiao Energy Investment Management Co. Ltd (Jinqiao Energy Investment) to gain a foothold in Jiangs