Middle East & South Asia

      Mideast Crude Tanker Rates At Near 3-month Low As Trade Slows

      LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Crude oil tanker earnings on the major Middle East route fell to their lowest in nearly three months as...

      Bahrain Refinery Contract Goes to Technip

      Technip was awarded by The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) a significant (1) contract on a reimbursable basis to develop the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)...

      Pressure Grows on Israel’s Leviathan to Finalise Gas Deals

      The group developing Israel's giant Leviathan gas field is running out of time to clinch binding major supply deals with Egypt and Jordan to...

      China’s Sputtering Economy Crimps Gas Demand, Cuts Spot LNG Buys

      China's gas demand growth is expected to ease to its slowest in three years in 2014 and dip again next year, as a slowing...

      Japan’s Tepco Signs 17-year LNG Supply Deal with BP Unit

      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Friday it has signed a 17-year deal to buy up to 1.2 million tonnes per year of...

      Industries Qatar Shelves Multi Billion Dollar Petrochemicals Project

      Industries Qatar, the Gulf's second-largest petrochemicals firm, said on Thursday it had put its multi billion dollar Al Sejeel petrochemical complex project on hold...

      Japan’s Mitsui Restarts Naphtha Cracker After Repair

      Japan's Mitsui Chemicals Inc said on Tuesday it restarted the 612,000-tonne-per-year naphtha cracker at its Ichihara plant in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Monday...

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