• Opinion

  Can Asia Pacific’s upstream adapt for a more sustainable future?

  • 10 8月 2023

  We explore the potential for the region to transition from traditional operating models to advantaged energy basins

• Opinion

  A Gastech exclusive: making sense of LNG market volatility

  • 01 9月 2023

  How can LNG buyers navigate LNG procurement in the current volatile market environment and amidst evolving contracting dynamics?

• Opinion

  Is Japan’s grid-scale storage market getting a move on?

  • 13 9月 2023

  Market restructuring is required to balance the books in Japan. Could new ancillary and capacity services close the viability gap?

• Opinion

  LNG trade disrupted as Suez Canal transits stop

  • 20 2月 2024

  The implications of no LNG carriers transiting through the Red Sea and Suez Canal

• Opinion

  Red Sea crisis: what crisis? Not for US refiners as refining margins boom

  • 19 2月 2024

  US product exports to Europe advantaged as Middle East/West Coast India exports are challenged by Red Sea disruption

• Opinion

  No silos allowed in the pursuit of a greener economy

  • 21 10月 2020

  The move towards a circular economy is one of many initiatives being pursued as society seeks to reduce its environmental impact. Within the refining and chemical industries, there is an increasing focus on how technology and research can be applied to support the re-engineering of many product value chains, thereby reducing the environmental impact of specific products throughout their entire lifecycle.

• Opinion

  In conversation with Asia Pacific’s CEOs

  • 04 11月 2020

  We hosted the CEOs of PETRONAS, Santos and Medco, the chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, and many other senior executives from a range of leading oil and gas companies, utilities and banks over two days at our APAC Energy & Commodities Summit last month.

• Opinion

  Biden, China and politics of energy

  • 11 11月 2020

  As the new administration looks to take the US back into the Paris climate agreement, will the US and China work together on tackling global warming?

• Opinion

  What is carbon-neutral LNG?

  • 18 11月 2020

  LNG ranks among the most emission-intensive resource themes across the oil and gas sector.

• Opinion

  Dual circulation and China’s push for energy security

  • 25 11月 2020

  At its core, dual circulation is about relying less on the outside world.

• Opinion

  What happens to gas and LNG if the energy transition accelerates?

  • 10 12月 2020

  Gas still has a role to play in reducing global carbon emissions. But what will the renewed focus on decarbonisation mean for the gas and LNG industry?

• Opinion

  Power purchase agreements: how will they support renewables growth?

  • 15 12月 2020

  Power purchase agreements are attractive for investors entering the renewable energy space, but the market is still relatively small. We take a look at key market trends.

• Opinion

  Will 2021 breathe life back into the Asia Pacific upstream M&A market?

  • 16 12月 2020

  The recovery in oil and gas prices should help bring buyers and sellers closer on price expectation, while ongoing consolidation among upstream producers in North America has driven a sharp uptick in global M&A in recent months, likely pushing more non-core APAC assets into the market.

• Opinion

  Australian coal exports bounce back from China’s ban

  • 04 3月 2021

  Australia’s coal exporters have staged a recovery after volumes to China plummeted.

• Opinion

  2021 – cheerful or fearful?

  • 13 1月 2021

  And after the 12 months we’ve all just experienced, making bold predictions for the year ahead is more fraught than ever: nothing is off the table.

• Opinion

  China’s war on waste means more than just clean plates

  • 24 3月 2021

  In re-launching the ‘Clean Plate’ campaign in August last year, President Xi Jinping urged all of China to “maintain a sense of crisis about food security”. This is of course an important message in and of itself, given the huge amounts of energy, water and land involved in food production in China.

• Opinion

  Suez blockage highlights Asia’s vulnerability to disruptions

  • 31 3月 2021

  The grounding of the 400-metre, 224,000-tonne Ever Given cargo vessel in the Suez Canal last Tuesday inevitably sparked concern across the global economy and, while the vessel is now afloat and traffic has resumed, will have once again reminded Asian countries of the risks such trade arteries continue to present.

• Opinion

  Aiming high: can China’s steel industry hit its ambitious targets?

  • 15 2月 2021

  China’s next Five-Year Plan has some tough goals for the country’s steel industry. It goes beyond solving problems like overcapacity and improving domestic raw-material security, to making its operations greener. Can it be done? And in such a short timeframe?

• Opinion

  How Asia changed the global LNG market in the space of a year

  • 21 4月 2021

  The past year has undoubtedly been the most dramatic in the history of the global LNG industry. Demand buffeted by lockdowns and recession, liquefaction shut-in, pre-FID supply projects delayed and spot LNG prices crashing to all-time lows before going into orbit.

• Opinion

  There’s still life in China’s shale gas

  • 28 4月 2021

  Looking back over a decade as the US shale gas boom began to dramatically transform the country’s energy balance, driving down gas prices and ultimately creating one of the world’s largest LNG exporters, many speculated whether China could replicate this success.

• Opinion

  India in crisis

  • 06 5月 2021

  Given the scale of the crisis facing India and the potential for a further nationwide lockdown, I turned to our experts to hear how they are assessing the impact across the economy and energy sectors.

• Opinion

  Southeast Asia’s steel surge: how will the region manage overcapacity?

  • 11 5月 2021

  Southeast Asia continues to see ambitious expansion in steel capacity. But with lacklustre utilisation levels, will protectionist government policies be enough to address overcapacity?

• Opinion

  Asia’s developing economies need more gas investment, not less

  • 27 5月 2021

  It is increasingly clear across Asia that governments, lenders, and both gas suppliers and consumers must prioritise the management of carbon emissions across the gas value chain.

• Opinion

  Opportunities abound in Asia Pacific’s transforming power markets

  • 01 7月 2021

  Last week we hosted our inaugural Asia Pacific Power & Renewables Conference. This three-day event tackled all aspects of the region’s power markets and their roles in the energy transition.

• Opinion

  China, coal and the big crunch

  • 07 10月 2021

  The impact of China’s power crunch is being felt globally. As Beijing’s ‘at all costs’ directive pushes coal and gas prices higher, governments, energy suppliers and customers across Asia and Europe are bracing for a tough winter ahead.

• Opinion

  Does Europe have enough gas to meet demand?

  • 08 10月 2021

  We've seen record wholesale gas prices over the past month. But this masks the bigger question - is there enough gas to meet european demand this winter?

• Opinion

  Ancillary services market redesign in Asia Pacific to drive grid-scale battery uptake

  • 13 3月 2024

  Ancillary services are crucial for reliable and safe operation of a power system. Redesign of such markets in Asia Pacific could kickstart the uptake of grid-scale batteries in the region.

• Opinion

  Hoegh Galleon helps Egypt’s gas crunch but delays Australian LNG imports

  • 22 4月 2024

  Egyptian LNG import capacity will arrive ahead of peak summer demand

• Opinion

  The potential of Indonesia’s ‘energy super basins’

  • 11 7月 2024

  We share how the country’s upstream operators can leverage sustainability principles by seeking “advantaged resources” within their portfolio

• Opinion

  Could an expansion of Western sanctions derail Yamal LNG?

  • 28 8月 2024

  The implications of the EU's ban on the transshipment of Russian LNG and what could come next