Moscow plans to build a new pipeline to China, which could give Russia the power to sell gas to the highest bidder, pitting Chinese and European consumers against one another.

In 2022, the country is expected to commission 2,950 MW of power capacity and to build 4,632 km of transmission lines.

China's raw coal production increased by 4.7% to 4.07 Gt in 2021 and imports grew by 6.6% to 320 Mt,

Indonesia was expected to reach a 14.5% target of renewables in its energy mix by 2021

In 2021, China imported 513 Mt of crude oil (-5.4% compared to 2020), 27 Mt of refined products (-4%), 323 Mt of coal and lignite (+6.6%) and 121 Mt of natural gas (+19.9%),

Japan has found "considerable gas shows" in a series of the country's funded drilling operations conducted by INPEX until the fiscal year 2019-20 (April-March), marking the first domestic project, which enters an exploration phase with the support of the government's geological structure surveys,

The country imported 3.862 million mt of LNG in December, down 9.3% from 4.257 million mt a year earlier, customs data showed Jan. 17.

The country's total crude imports averaged 10.3 million b/d in 2021, falling 5.4% year on year amid destocking activities.

China aims to boost its pumped storage capacity to 62 GW by 2025 and 120 GW by the end of the decade.

China aims to boost its pumped storage capacity to 62 GW by 2025 and 120 GW by the end of the decade.

The Spanish energy group Iberdrola has reached an agreement with the Philippine wind developer Triconti ECC Renewables and Switzerland's Stream Invest Holding to develop five offshore wind projects in the Philippines with a total capacity of 3.5 GW.

National oil company Sinopec expects Chinese natural gas demand to reach 395 Bcm in 2022, up 7% from an estimated 370 Bcm in 2021, according to its research arm, Sinopec Economics & Development Research Institute.

Over January-November, India's crude imports rose 5.8% year on year to 191.8 million mt, or 4.2 million b/d.

The average LNG price for February delivery into Northeast Asia rose to $48.3 per metric million British thermal units (mmBtu), up $5, or 11.5% from the previous week

Kudankulam is a long-term strategic project between India and Russia that began with an intergovernmental agreement in 1988.