Australian gas exporters argue that their projects are not contingent on Chinese buyers in a growing Asian market.

The Vietnamese oil and gas company PetroVietnam (PVN) has started producing gas from the Sao Vang-Dai Nguyet field off the country’s southern coast.

South Korean refiners have sharply increased intakes of Middle East crude since May as they started to reduce imports of US grades due to expensive WTI compared with Dubai-linked Persian Gulf grades.

RCEP covers 30% of the global economy and 30% of the global population, joining for the first time Asian powers China, Japan and South Korea. It aims in coming years to progressively lower tariffs across many areas.

The natural gas produced in October was 11.6% higher from September and up 11.9% from a year ago, data released Nov. 16 by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.17% on Tuesday, a day after hitting its highest level since launching in 1987.

The pressure on Energy Solution Providers has been building for quite some time. Instead of backing coal, new finance is getting behind renewable energy and putting shareholder pressure on forcing decisions on those still involved in the fossil fuel areas.

The government will spend 1.2 trillion rupees ($16.1 billion) on the latest stimulus program in addition to the 1.45 trillion rupees announced on Wednesday,

President Xi Jinping said China's carbon emission will peak by 2030 and it will attain carbon neutrality by 2060, and thus make a huge contribution to the global fight against climate change.

"India is set to nearly double its energy consumption over the long-term," Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the virtual forum. "Our energy sector will be growth-centric, industry friendly and environment-conscious."

The average contract price for spot LNG cargoes shipped to Japan in October rose to $6 per million British thermal units (mmBtu)

On a barrels-per-day basis, the imports dropped 15.1% from the 11.85 million b/d in September

Chinese blue chips gained 1.3%, aided by talk a Biden White House might ease back on trade war tariffs.

The rise in imports came despite India's LPG consumption edging down 0.26% on month to 2.267 million mt in September after several consecutive months of increase, although it was up 4.8% year on year, the PPAC data showed.

Total US feedgas deliveries stood at 9.85 Bcf/d on Nov. 2, down from 10.02 Bcf/d the day before and 10.37 Bcf/d on Oct. 31