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Death toll in China mine blast rises to 37
The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in China has risen to 37, with another 10 people trapped, authorities said Friday, in one of the country's worst mining accidents of the last year.
31 August 2012
Australia sees China chance in Chevron gas exit
Australian officials on Tuesday welcomed Chevron's decision to bow out of Woodside Petroleum's massive Browse liquefied natural gas project as a chance for Chinese investors to buy in.
22 August 2012
Author of US fracking study had gas industry ties: watchdog
A university study that claimed fracking for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a US professor with financial ties to the gas industry.
29 July 2012
Kyrgyzstan gas debt to Kazakhstan is complicated and growing
KyrgyzGas finds it had to collect the debts from its Kyrgyz users of gas.
26 July 2012
Australian gas rush set to overhaul Qatar's lead
Australia is set to become the world's biggest liquefied natural gas producer, with analysts predicting it will overtake Qatar by 2020 as it unlocks reserves that could last more than a century.
25 July 2012
Naftogas and Rompetrol to build 700 petrol stations in Ukraine
Naftogaz of Ukraine and Rompetrol signed a memorandum of intent to create a joint company for oil products marketing in Ukraine.
17 July 2012
Putin refuses to cut price of Russian gas for Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not budge Thursday during talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych aimed at easing a dispute over the price of Russia's gas.
15 July 2012
KazTransGas assigned the role of the sole national operator of gas supplies
Among other things, the Company will be in charge of developing the master plan of gas supplies network, exercising the pre-pre-emptive right to purchase all crude and tank gas and managing gas supplies facilities.
11 July 2012
IMF urges Ukraine to hike gas prices for consumers
The International Monetary Fund again urged Ukraine Friday to raise gas prices for consumers, a sticking point in the resumption of an IMF bailout.
07 July 2012
Kyrgyzstan prolonged contract on gas supply from Kazakhstan
KazTransGaz has prolonged the contract to supply 70 million cubic meters of gas to Kyrgyzstan, Deputy Director General of Kyrgyzgas, Yevgeny Orlenko said.
01 June 2012
Kazakhstan to drastically boost gas production by 2030
According to Vice Minister of Oil and Gas, through secondary recovery a total of 109-110 billion cubic meters could be produced.
23 May 2012
Nazarbayev set new terms for use of oil and gas fields
Nursultan Nazarbayev offered foreign oil and gas companies to develop Kazakhstan’s alternative economy in repayment for rights to develop natural resources.
23 May 2012
Kyrgyzstan will pay gas debts to Kazakhstan by end of spring
Kyrgyzstan is promising to pay $2 million of gas debts to Kazakhstan in hopes for a new fuel supplies contract.
16 May 2012
Kyrgyzstan owes Kazakhstan $31.2 million
The actual debt for gas supplies makes up $7.5 million plus $12.5 million injected by the Kazakh side into the KyrKazGas JV.
08 May 2012
Kazakhstan mulling gas imports from Turkmenistan for the forthcoming heating season
In the heating season of 2011-2012 Almaty and Zhambyk oblasts in the South of Kazakhstan experienced gas shortages due to disrupted gas supplies from Uzbekistan.
08 May 2012
Kazakhstan in talks with Russia on decreased gas supplies to launch a gas processing facility of its own
Kazakhstan plans a gas processing facility of its own in the West of the country to process gas from Karachaganak oil and gas field.
02 May 2012
Kazakhstan will suspend gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan on May 1
Kazakhstan is going to stop gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan for debts.
17 April 2012
Aktobe oil company fined 500 million tenge for emissions
Kazakhoil Aktobe reimbursed the state with 445 million tenge ($3 million) for the environmental damaged caused by excessive gas flaring.
02 April 2012