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08.07.18China’s Gas Tariffs Are a Permian-Size Problem for Oil
Bloomberg
The latest bit of America’s energy sector to feel the over-the-shoulder lash is the liquefied natural gas-export business. On Friday, LNG joined the list of goods that China will hit with tariffs in retaliation for U.S. ones. This...
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02.12.18Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills More Than 100 in China This Year
New York Times
Gas poisonings in southern China have left at least 104 people dead and hundreds hospitalized.
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12.12.17Need Stretchy Pants? China's Energy Squeeze May Mean Higher Prices
New York Times
Homes, businesses and even hospitals across northern China are running short of natural gas. Some schoolchildren are shivering. And in the chemical industry — well, the spandex supply is getting tight.
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12.06.17China’s Drive for Cleaner Energy Is Causing a Gas Shortage for Winter
CNBC
China's push to clean up its environment may have had an unintended consequence: a shortage of heating fuel supply is hitting some regions in the dead of winter, sending prices of domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a three-year high.
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10.06.17Exclusive: Russia’s Rosneft Aims for Big Boost in Oil Exports to China - Sources
Reuters
Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) wants to boost its supplies of oil to China through Kazakhstan to as much as 18 million tonnes (36,000 bpd) per year from around 10 million tonnes in 2017, three industry sources said on Friday.
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10.04.17China’s Putting the Brakes on Coal for Heating Millions of Homes This Winter
Quartz
China might start to see better air this winter as it prepares to heat heat millions of houses for the first time by gas, and continues a clampdown on coal to battle its deadly pollution.
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02.08.17‘Irrational’ Coal Plants May Hamper China’s Climate Change Efforts
New York Times
A certain coal plant near the rugged Kazakhstan border and others like it undermine China’s aim of being a global leader on efforts to limit climate change.
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10.17.16Escaping China’s Parent Trap
Bloomberg
Think Chinese SOEs' have little incentive to stray beyond China? That's far from the case. Just look at Britain's utilities
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06.24.15Gas Leak Raises Fears Over China Network
Financial Times
A brand new natural gas pipeline operated by CNPC in Yunnan sprung a leak, raising worries about the safety of China's network of oil and gas pipes.
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05.19.15
Why Xinjiang’s Economy Is Sputtering
It has been almost one year since a terrorist bombing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, shocked the nation and brought economic woes and social conflicts in the largely Uighur-populated area into the spotlight again.I arrived by train...
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09.04.13
China’s Shale Gas Development Goals Just Pipe Dreams
China wants to reap the benefits of a shale gas revolution similar to the one in the United States, but there are many obstacles to this happening, experts say.In the first half of 2013, fifty-six shale gas wells were in the exploratory phase in the...
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08.13.13Chinese Foot-Dragging
New York Times
The South China Sea is one of the world’s most strategically important waterways. China has fanned hostilities with other nations with sovereignty claims and confrontations over disputed islands and even specks of rock.
Environment
03.13.13
Chinese Fracking Plans Prompt “Water-Grabbing” Fears
from chinadialogue
China has become one of Asia’s leaders in expanding unconventional shale-gas extraction in the name of energy self-sufficiency and national autonomy. Experiences of “fracking” worldwide, however, suggest the costs to China of joining this revolution...