Japan

BMI View: The nationalisation of TEPCO has created new momentum behind the beleaguered company's overseas operations as the government's energy security priorities take centre stage.... 2012-05-16

BMI View: Japanese trading houses Mistui and Mitsubishi have agreed to buy a 14.7% stake in Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project for US$2bn. The deal reflects strong Japanese demand... 2012-05-01

BMI View: ExxonMobil's decision to lessen its exposure to the Japanese downstream represents a strategic retreat. Indeed, despite spiking oil demand in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake,... 2012-01-31

The Ichthys FID paves the way for Australia's most expensive LNG development to date. The project has been plagued by cost over-runs as a number of competing projects vie for limited... 2012-01-13

Inpex's Ichthys LNG project has benefited from rising long-term Japanese gas demand, with Japanese buyers signing up for 70% of the project's output. While the demand picture for Australian... 2011-12-06

BMI View: Petrobras' willingness to bring a new Asian partner into its Okinawa refinery in Japan makes sense both for Petrobras' strategy and the future of the refinery. It would help... 2011-11-02

With strong Japanese demand for Ichthys LNG supplies, we see an increasing likelihood of project operators Inpex and Total taking a final investment decision on the project as planned... 2011-09-07

Japanese power companies stepped up the use of fossil fuels between April and June 2011 in an effort to counteract lost nuclear generation capacity in the wake of the Tōhoku... 2011-08-15

Brazilian national oil company (NOC) Petrobras is considering offloading a stake in its Japanese refining subsidiary Nansei Sekiyu Kabushiki Kaisha (NSS).

Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) is considering demothballing five of its oil-fired thermal power stations in order to make up for lost nuclear power generation... 2011-08-10