Japan

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.

Japan's Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui Chemicals will join Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) and state-owned PetroVietnam to build a JPY600bn oil refining and petrochemicals complex... 2008-04-01

Indonesia and Japan have come to an agreement over the extension of liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts due to expire in 2010 and 2011. Having been negotiating for years, both parties... 2008-03-31

The construction of Indonesia's planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal Sereno, which is to be located in Sulawesi, is likely to be delayed due to ongoing gas price re-negotiations... 2008-03-17

Japan's Mitsui has announced that it has acquired a 20% interest in the Rovuma Offshore Area 1 block in Mozambique. Newly-created unit Mitsui E&P Mozambique Area 1 bought... 2008-02-08