Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has recently called for Japan to work to restart its idled nuclear power reactors and to look into an expansion of nuclear energy as the country tackles a crisis of tight power supply and demand.

Since then, the public has been skeptical about nuclear power and Japan has made strict safety updates at plants throughout the country.

The Philippines built a nuclear power plant in the late 1970s, but the project was stopped in 1986, and fuel was not loaded into it.

Russia is now China’s top supplier of the fuel, supplanting Indonesia after the Southeast Asian nation deterred buyers by raising prices.

Russia's crude exports rose by 140,000 b/d on the month to average 3.36 million b/d from Aug 1-16 to remain above pre-war levels for the fifth month in a row,

According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 274.8 billion cubic meters of gas from January 1 through August 15, 2022. This is a decrease of 13.2 per cent (or 41.7 billion cubic meters) versus the same period of last year.

India currently has 22 operating nuclear reactors, totalling some 6795 MWe of capacity. A further eight units, totalling just over 6000 MWe, are under construction, and the Indian government is committed to growing nuclear capacity as part of its massive infrastructure development programme.

China's crude stocks stood at an 11-month high of 945 million barrels in May, accounting for 63% of the country's crude storage capacity

"Sakhalin-1 is a valuable non-Middle East source for Japan, which depends on the Middle East for 90% of its crude oil imports," said Haguida, the minister for economy, trade and industry.

The areas of potential cooperation include upstream and downstream businesses, engineering and construction, oilfield services, carbon capture and hydrogen.

Indeed, by 2025, companies in the steel, building materials, petrochemicals, non-ferrous metals, consumer goods, equipment manufacturing and electronics sectors with an annual revenue of CNY20m (US$2.9m) or more will have to cut their energy use by 13.5% from 2020 levels.

Now the increase in Russian coal is pushing out US, South African, Australian, and some higher CV Indonesian coal.

India's coal based generation accounted for 69.9% of the country's overall electricity generation of 1,490.277 billion units in fiscal year 2021-22 (April-March), a growth of 9.5% from a year ago.

The company boosted coal production by 6.2% to 300 million tons and increased sales to 390 million tons.

Steady inflows have lengthened waiting times for Very Large Gas Carriers to discharge at India's terminals,