The 1337 second-long plasma record came just a few weeks after China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) set a previous world record by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1066 seconds.

Overall delivery of US LNG shipments in the first quarter of 2025 fell by 70%, according to Chinese official custom data released on Sunday.

Japan faces substantial challenges in managing its energy trade deficit and high end-user costs while aggressively pursuing decarbonization targets amidst geopolitical tensions. There are significant concerns about Japan's ability to meet its emissions targets, casting doubts on its broader 2050 decarbonization plans.

The Vietnamese Government has approved Vietnam’s revised National Electricity Development Plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 (PDP8), which now integrates the development of nuclear energy.

By 2050, Vietnam is targeting as much as 230 gigawatts of wind and 296 gigawatts of solar.

The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has awarded five oil blocks and gas blocks offshore Indonesia.

The two sides discussed cooperation within the OPEC+ framework and the energy sector, including electricity, hydropower and renewables. Three coal-fired thermal power plants will be built in Kazakhstan in the cities of Kokshetau, Semey and Ust-Kamenogorsk, and two power units at Ekibastuz TPP-2 will be renovated with the involvement of Russian specialists.

Joint Indian-Russian operators are already managing the countries second airport at Hambantota, which is being repositioned as a tourist arrivals hub from East Asia. Sri Lanka is a member of the SAARC trade bloc, and has also applied to join the BRICS.

Its target scenario sees output of 540 million tons at the end of this decade and also by midcentury, a document published Monday showed. That’s equivalent to about 10.84 million barrels a day and is only marginally above volumes in 2023, the baseline for the paper. Shipments abroad are also expected to hold steady.

The French state partly owns Engie, which used to be among the biggest buyers of Gazprom's gas. Holleaux said Russia could supply around 20-25% of EU needs, down from 40% before the war.

Current Russia-India bilateral trade is running at US$66 billion with a target to increase this to US$100 billion by 2030.

Japan will continue participating in Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on Sakhalin Island due to their strategic importance for the country’s energy security,

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. is building an 80,000 mt underground LPG rock cavern in Mangalore, which is expected to be operational by mid-2025, company and government officials said.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have all said they are considering investments in a long-delayed $44 billion LNG export project in Alaska backed by Trump.

Despite a strong start to the solar season in Europe, and record amounts of cheap new renewable capacity in Germany since the energy crisis, it’s natural gas that will increasingly decide how much households and factories in Europe’s biggest economy pay for electricity.