State-controlled oil and gas producer PetroChina has officially started construction works on the third phase of the expansion project at its Rudong LNG import terminal in Jiangsu province. The third phase which started on November 26 inclu

Chinas liquefied natural gas (LNG) price inched up 0.1% to 4,486.8 yuan/t ($655.9/t) averagely over November 21-30 compared with mid-November, showed data from National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on December 4. Relatively relaxed supply-dem

Inflated spot charter rates for LNG tankers are easing as more ships becoming available, which could help increase LNG trade if Asian demand rises in coming months. Charter rates usually follow the price of LNG, which has fallen since Septe

Chinas efforts to secure a stable supply of natural gas during the coming winter have pushed the market players to explore new avenues of supply. In a new attempt to alleviate gas shortages in the North, Chinas National Development and Refo

Major LNG pipe networks of the top three state-owned Chinese oil firms have been interconnected in Binhai New Area in Tianjin city of north China, helping ease gas shortage in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during winter heating season, local

China, the worlds second-largest importer of LNG, is continuing to boost its imports of the chilled fuel and has reached a new record high as it is pursuing its strategy for cleaner air. China imported 41.6 million tonnes in the January-Oct

Taiwans state-owned CPC Corporation said on Monday it received its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Inpex-operated Ichthys project in Australia. LNG carrier Pacific Breeze, that previously loaded a cargo at the Ichthys pl

Taiwan imported 13.03 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first nine months of this year, up 3.7 percent from the same period in the year before, according to the customs data. During the month of September, Taiwan imported

International shipping association BIMCO is planning to develop new gas-related contracts in Asia in an effort to further increase the involvement of its Asian members. The two contracts are the liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker purchase c

The daily liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales in Sinopec Gas Company Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of state-owned China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), have exceeded 10,000 tonnes in November, according to Sinopec News. Daily LNG load averaged

China National Offshore Oil Co, or CNOOC, offloaded a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo on Nov. 11 shipped from Yamal, first of its kind the Chinese firm received from the Russian Arctic gas project, CNOOC said on its website on Tuesday. Th

Singapore-based Saga LNG Shipping has received an approval in principle from China Classification Society (CCS) for an 80,000-cbm liquefied natural gas carrier. This ship includes a patented LNG tank system named LNT A-Box developed by LNT

The technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract from Chinese chemical and energy company Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal Chemical Co Ltd to supply a mid-scale LNG plant near Beinichuan in Inner Mongolia. This will be Lindes s

Japanese shipping giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) signed a charter contract with Chinas Unipec, the trading arm of state oil major Sinopec, for a 149,700-cbm LNG carrier. NYK will charter the 2007-built Grace Acacia to Unipec for four-

Changfeng Energy, Chinese energy provider completed its trial run of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment from Canada to China using ISO-containers. The LNG shipment from the Vancouver port was arranged by Changfeng and it arrived at the