Japan

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... 2008-08-13

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... 2008-08-05

Japanese state-run Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) is expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petróleos... 2008-07-22

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... 2008-07-07

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.

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.

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... 2008-05-08

Russia and Japan have agreed to jointly develop the Severo-Mogdinsky Block in eastern Siberia. A joint venture (JV) will be formed between Russia's Irkutsk Oil, which will take... 2008-04-29

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... 2008-04-18

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.