Commentary / World Mar 13, 2018
by Robert Samuelson
The real obstacle to dealing with climate change is the world's vast dependence on oil, natural gas and coal.
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Business Feb 26, 2018
Billionaire miner and Japanese utilities plan Australia LNG import plant
Billionaire miner Andrew Forrest and two of Japan's biggest power utilities plan to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Australia by 2020. The terminal could process as many as 2 million tons of LNG a year in New South Wales, the country's most ...
Business Apr 10, 2017
Japan to conduct second test to produce gas from methane hydrate
The trade ministry said Monday it has begun preparations for a second production test to extract methane gas from methane hydrate deposits off Japan's central coast. The test is the first since Japan achieved the world's first extraction of gas in 2013 from offshore deposits ...
Business Apr 10, 2017
Russia turns iffy on Japan gas future as Abe heads to Moscow
by Stephen Stapczynski and Elena Mazneva
Russia's Gazprom PJSC isn't confident in Japan's future as a growing natural gas user, which may damp prospects of a proposed pipeline between the countries as Premier Shinzo Abe travels to Moscow later this month. "The demand situation in Japan is not clear yet for ...
Business Nov 9, 2016
Diet members push study of $6.7 billion Russia gas pipeline ahead of Putin visit
Japanese lawmakers are revisiting a plan to build a $6.7 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia ahead of a visit by President Vladimir Putin to Japan next month. A group of about 80 lawmakers from the ruling parties will ask the government by the end ...
Business Sep 23, 2016
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs. The industrial city on the shores of ...
Business Aug 21, 2016
Iran woos Japan with huge natural gas endeavor but commitments elude
by Yoichi Kosukegawa
After about a half-hour drive on an almost straight road by car from an airport in Assaluyeh on the Persian Gulf coast in southern Iran, high stacks emitting orange flames of burning natural gas begin to come into view against a backdrop of mountains. The ...
Business Jun 17, 2016
Nebraska utility to shutter aging, smallest U.S. nuclear plant
The Omaha Public Power District voted Thursday to shutter the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, which is the nation's smallest nuclear power plant. The board decided it was in the best financial interest of the utility and its customers to close the plant by the end ...
Business May 23, 2016
Japan, the world's biggest buyer of LNG, paid the lowest price in about 11 years for the fuel last month amid a global oversupply. The average price of LNG shipments into the country was about $6.32 per million British thermal units in April, the least ...
Business May 13, 2016
Smallest U.S. nuke plant not economically viable, should be scrapped: Nebraska utility head
The head of a Nebraska utility recommended shutting down the nation's smallest nuclear power plant by the end of the year, saying Thursday that it doesn't make economic sense to keep it open. Tim Burke, the president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District, ...
Business / Corporate Jan 20, 2016
Mitsubishi bolsters U.S. LNG ties with gas marketer purchase
Mitsubishi Corp. bolstered access to natural gas supplies for its North American export projects by taking full ownership of oil and gas marketer Cima Energy Ltd. Mitsubishi, which already held 34 percent of Cima, took control of the Houston-based company, it said Wednesday, without providing ...
Business Dec 3, 2015
The nation is probably set to receive more LNG than it needs, potentially forcing some purchasers in the world's biggest user of the fuel to resell cargoes and add to a glut. Liquefied natural gas volumes contracted by Japanese buyers may exceed their combined demand ...