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JERA’s new contract with Petronas foretells smaller, shorter LNG deals

TOKYO/KUALA LUMPUR / Reuters Malaysian state energy company Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, signed a three-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with JERA Co, with smaller volumes and for a shorter period than its previous deal with the biggest LNG buyer in Japan. JERA, the fuel purchasing joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, will buy ...

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Venezuelan oil cargoes to US ports plunge as sanctions bite

Bloomberg Venezuela’s biggest market for crude sales — the US — is becoming a harder and harder place for the socialist nation’s oil producer to do business as sanctions and diminishing quality controls discourage would-be buyers. Oil sales to US buyers have fallen for two straight months and now are 56 percent lower than their 2016 average, according to ship-tracking ...

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Ban on new onshore wind farms may cost UK $1.3bn

Bloomberg The UK’s subsidy ban for new onshore wind farms could tack 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) onto power bills over five years by eschewing one of the cheapest forms of clean energy. Generating power from new onshore wind farms would be 100 million pound a year cheaper than doing so from new nuclear reactors or biomass plants, and at ...

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