Southeast Asia ramps up LNG import capacity

AsianOil - Asia Oil & Gas
GLNG - Global LNG
By Newsbase analysts 27 September 2026
Southeast Asia is leaning into LNG use despite the risk of external shocks a new report revealed.

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and GasEntec ink MoU to develop small-scale LNG

AsiaElec - Asia Power
AsianOil - Asia Oil & Gas
GLNG - Global LNG
By Newsbase analysts 27 September 2026
South Korean shipbuilder and maritime engineering firm Samsung Heavy Industries and South Korean engineering firm GasEntec have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for GasEntec to license SHI’s Samsung Enhanced Nitrogen Split Expansion.
Russian LNG is drifting east, Asian buyers are bidding higher, tanker prices have gone

EU faces winter tug of war with Asia as gas stores hit lowest for date since 2011

GLNG - Global LNG
By Ben Aris in Berlin 27 September 2026
Europe is heading into winter locked in a bidding war with Asia for LNG cargoes, with EU gas stores at record lows.
Five countries make all their grid electricity from renewables and 64 now make at least half, but almost every leader depends on rivers that this year's super El Niño can run dry.

Albania, Nepal, Ethiopia lead a growing club of countries running on renewable power

REM - Renewable Energy
By Ben Aris in Berlin 27 September 2026
Five countries generated all their grid electricity from renewables in the latest year on record and 64 got at least half, according to new data from Stanford University's Mark Jacobson.
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