Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Qatar has delivered its first cargo of liquefied natural gas to a leading Chinese terminal. QatarGas said it shipped LNG to the Hainan terminal, operated by China National Oil Corp. QatarGas said the shipment on Aug. 8 served to inaugurate the new LNG terminal, owned by China National Oil. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has significantly reduced liquefied natural gas exports from Qatar. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said both the United States and the European Union have recorded a significant decrease in Qatari LNG. In a report said U.S. imports of Qatari LNG dropped by 63 percent in 2012 and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Egypt and Israel could form an energy partnership, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Egypt and Israel could launch a liquefied natural gas partnership to supply clients throughout Asia and the Mediterranean. In a report, institute fellow Simon Henderson cited a Letter of Intent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Australia has delayed participation in Israel’s offshore natural gas project. Australia’s Woodside Petroleum has failed to implement its agreement to purchase a stake in Israel’s Leviathan gas field, located in the eastern Mediterranean. Woodside acknowledged unspecified differences in the $2.7 billion agreement, scheduled to have been signed on March […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Qatar, deemed a close ally of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president, has resumed energy aid to Cairo. Qatar said it sent the second shipment of liquefied natural gas to Egypt as part of a plan to provide $5 billion in assistance. Officials said the LNG tanker left Qatar for Egypt […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Qatar has again promised to ship fuel to Egypt. Officials said Qatar relayed a pledge to send five shipments of natural gas to Egypt during the summer of 2013. The officials said the Doha agreed to an Egyptian request to ease the current fuel crisis, which again sparked unrest. “Qatar […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Bahrain has ordered natural gas from Russia. Officials said Bahrain would begin importing liquefied natural gas from Russia by 2014. They said Russia would replace Iran as a supplier of liquid gas amid deteriorating relations between Manama and Teheran. “Whether Russia supplies us with Iranian liquid gas or from […]
Sol W. Sanders While the Obama Administration has been busy lining the pockets of its campaign contributors with solar power handouts, an energy revolution is taking place even the Washington Luddites and GOSplanners can’t buck. American technology, borrowing offshore deep-water drilling techniques, has started exploiting huge deposits of natural gas buried deep in the earth […]