The US was the fifth-largest supplier of LNG to India in 2019, according to the Department of Energy.

Foreign direct investment (FDI), a bellwether of globalisation and economic confidence, fell by 49 per cent to $399 billion in the first half of 2020,

Japan’s previous objective was to become carbon neutral after 2050.

CNOOC’s hydrocarbon output increased from 475 mboe in 2018 to 506.5 mboe in 2019 (+6.6%).

The average LNG price for December delivery into northeast Asia LNG-AS was estimated at about $6.90 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), jumping $1.10 from the previous week.

The Asia and Pacific region is also starting to recover tentatively, but at multiple speeds. Economic activity is expected to contract by −2.2 percent in 2020, due to a sharper-than-expected downturn in key emerging markets, and to grow by 6.9 percent in 2021—0.6 percentage point lower and 0.3 percentage point higher, respectively,

The blue-chip CSI300 index ended 0.3% lower at 4,777.98, while the Shanghai Composite Index shed 0.4% to 3,312.50.

Farzad-B gas field was discovered by a consortium of three Indian companies ONGC, Oil India Limited and Indian Oil Corporation in 2008 in the Farsi offshore block of the Persian Gulf. Tehran and New Delhi have since negotiated the terms of the field’s development for years.

The goal of carbon-neutrality by 2060 will require China to kick its longstanding addiction to coal while building unprecedented amounts of intermittent wind and solar capacity.

On a quarter-on-quarter basis, China GDP rose 2.7% in the third quarter, the NBS said, compared with expectations for a 3.2% rise and an 11.5% rise in the previous quarter.

Влияние стран БРИКС на международной арене возрастает ввиду растущей экономической мощи государств-участников – сегодня страны БРИКС составляют почти четверть общемирового ВВП, больше трети мирового потребления и производства энергии.

Asia-Pacific [market] is rallying because of recovering demand, better than in October and ATC was also looking for cargoes, lending support to CPs

China should strictly control coal consumption and the expansion of coal-fired power capacity in the next five years, aiming to cap carbon emission from coal sectors by 2025 and even realise negative growth

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 3% to 4,823.16

The Nikkei 225 Index ended 0.12% lower at 23,619.69 on Friday.