Japan
Companies
Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the world's first floating gas liquefaction plant - the Progress LNG plant, which will be situated...
2008-08-13Companies
The potential of gas hydrates to meet energy demand in Asia's most import dependent countries has reignited long smouldering tensions between South Korea and Japan over a group of...
2008-08-05Economy
French major Total is planning to invest US$1.9bn in Indonesia's upstream oil and gas segment this year, according to the company's head of exploration and production (E&P) in...
2008-07-07Economy
Japanese news agency Kyodo News has reported that Japan and China have agreed to jointly explore for natural gas in the disputed East China Sea.
2008-06-18Companies
Japan's leading upstream oil and gas company Inpex has acquired two new exploration permits off the western coast of Australia as part of the country's 2007 bidding round.
2008-05-16Companies
Japan's Nippon Oil and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up an oil refining joint venture (JV) in Japan by...
2008-05-08Economy
US oil major ExxonMobil has reached an agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) over the fiscal terms of an US$11bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, thereby removing...
2008-04-18Companies
Japan's Mitsui E&P and Toyota Tsusho Gas have acquired 20% and 10% respectively in Blocks WA-378-P, WA-396-P and WA-397-P in Australia's Browse Basin.
2008-04-18



