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China’s natural gas production increased 12.9% year/year in May to 14.4 billion cubic meters (bcm), according to data by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Despite souring Sino-U.S. trade relations, executives with two state-owned Chinese companies reportedly plans to honor agreements with their American counterparts, including an $83.7 billion memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop shale gas and chemical manufacturing projects in West Virginia.

Three Chinese companies tentatively have stepped forward to help finance Alaska’s costly and long-stalled natural gas export dreams.

Affiliates of China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) are acquiring a 15% interest in Progress Energy Canada Ltd.’s gas reserves in northeast British Columbia (BC) and in the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG Ltd. (PNW LNG) export terminal on Canada’s West Coast.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) said Monday it has "made significant breakthroughs" in shale gas exploration…

Apache Corp. late Thursday pulled off what many analysts had not thought probable, selling a one-third operational stake in strife-torn Egypt for $3.1 billion in cash to China’s Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corp.

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) wants to hire a “state regulatory and legislative affairs manager” based in Washington, DC, who would to focus on natural gas. The manager would ” assist in organizing and managing efforts to enact a comprehensive set of regulations and reforms in key natural gas producing states,” with emphasis on the…

A unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc has inked a milestone agreement with Chinese officials to use its technical know-how to develop shale gas in a first-ever production sharing contract (PSC).

It’s early days in Chevron Corp.’s shale natural gas and oil program, but it is “an area of significant long-term growth” with opportunities in the United States, Canada, Argentina, China and Europe — in liquids and dry gas — an executive said during the company’s analyst day Tuesday.