Every two years the gas industry of the Western Pacific holds an information exchange conference called GASEX. GASEX was originally established as a joint Japanese-Australian initiative about 20 years ago.The next GASEX will be held in Bali on 9-11 October 2012. The Australian Gas Industry Trust is sponsoring six delegates to this year’s conference. I will […]

I’m looking forward to giving a half day course on LNG next week at University College London (Australia). It is part of Professor Paul Stevens new course on Political Economy of Oil and Gas.

What is the appropriate noun and verb for a fracture stimulation? Frac or frack? Frack looks ugly (I’m sure American) but Google lists millions of entries for frack but only thousands for frac so I guess we had better fall into line too.

Julia Gillard is in Vladivostok for the APEC meeting. It’s interesting that Australia exports twice as much to China (around US$74 billion in 2011) than Russia does (around US$34 billion in 2011). Australia also exports more to Japan and South Korea. This is notwithstanding Russia’s closer proximity to all of these countries. I think this […]

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Daniel Yergin is well-known as a global energy guru, founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and author of The Prize, the Pulitzer Prize winning history of the oil industry. He has now produced an even more ambitious book, The Quest. Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. This latest work covers not […]

Looking forward to the World Gas Conference 4-8 June in Kuala Lumpur where I’ll be chairing the session: Asia Gas Market No. 1? http://www.wgc2012.com/conference/conference-programme/technical-programme-day-by-day.html

Domestic gas development is not likely to get much of a look-in at this week’s APPEA Conference. The focus is likely to be on Australia’s progress towards becoming the world’s largest LNG exporter. However one domestic issue that is clearly on the mind of APPEA Chairman and Santos CEO David Knox, and Michael Fraser AGL […]

There is a useful article on hydraulic fracturing risk in the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology. http://editiondigital.net/publication/?i=104913 Sub titled: “What every politician, environmentalist, regulator, reporter, investor, university researcher, neighbour and engineer should know about hydraulic fracturing risk”.

In a recent survey by LNG Global asking the question, “Will the United States be a top 5 LNG exporting nation in the year 2020?”, the responses were:  Yes:  53% No:   47%