Analysis

ISRAEL: GAS IS A KEY
After this summer’s war in Gaza battered Israel’s international reputation, the country’s leaders say they have a new foreign policy tool to build relations with its neighbors: natural gas.

CANADA: ONE OF THE LARGEST
Canada is one of the world's five largest energy producers and is the principal source of U.S. energy imports.

MALAYSIA: THE SECOND-LARGEST OF LNG
Malaysia is the world's second-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas and the second-largest oil and natural gas producer in Southeast Asia, and is strategically located amid important routes for seaborne energy trade.

LNG MARKET RISING
LNG investments could soon increase as the fuel could soon benefit from a rising demand for gas from the transport sector.

BRENT IS DOWN 13%
There was a time when headlines about jets bombing Middle Eastern refineries would have sent oil prices soaring.

CHINA & RUSSIA: GLOBAL LNG PRICES
The deal between Russia and China for importing some 38 billion cubic meters/year of natural gas through a pipeline connecting the two countries represents a key development not only for the two parties involved, but also for the role it will have in shaping the global price of LNG, according to Shigeru Muraki, vice chairman of the board at Japan's Tokyo Gas.

R&D UNDER THREAT
Some analysts and investors worry that oil companies will not spend enough either to sustain growth in their core businesses, or to open options in alternative energy sources for a world in which oil and gas consumption is constrained by climate policy or high prices.

YAMAL: $27 BLN INVESTMENT
The Yamal plan, a $27 billion investment to tap vast natural gas reserves in northwest Siberia, aims to double Russia's stake in the fast-growing market for liquefied natural gas.

RUSSIA LOOKS BEYOND
Russia looks beyond West Siberia for future oil and natural gas growth

CHINA: BE GLOBAL
China’s demand growth may make it globally dominant, speakers suggest

TREMOR IN THE GULF
How the Ukrainian crisis could cause tremors in the Gulf

EAST CHINA SEA DISPUTE
Unresolved territorial and maritime claims continue to hinder exploration and development in the East China Sea.

RUSSIAN POTENTIAL UP
AAPG ICE: Seismic reprocessing enhances potential for Russia’s legacy basins

SHALE COMPANIES GROW
North American shale-focused companies' financial performance has improved

WESTERN SAHARA: OIL BATTLE
Battle for oil in ‘Africa’s last colony’