Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Asia-Pacific Oil & Gas Sectors : A Company and Industry Analysis (August 2008)” report to their offering.
This report updates the previous Asia-Pacific oil and gas report, focusing on the markets in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea
Current Environment - Key Points
- Crude oil prices [...]

Shares of oil refiners fell, as concern grew among analysts and investors that high gasoline pump prices are putting a big crimp in fuel demand.
In a note to investors, Lehman Brothers analyst Paul Cheng cited fresh data from the Department of Energy and the Federal Highway Administration as further evidence to support his bearish view [...]

Net oil imports to the Philippines fell 2.6 percent in volume terms last year partly due to conservation measures implemented as prices soared, the government said on Sunday.
Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said the country’s net oil imports fell to 100.8 million barrels last year compared with 103.46 million in 2005.
However, the Southeast Asian country’s net [...]

BACK in 1999, when she was the head of refining at Chevron, Patricia A. Woertz told a group of energy officials that it was time to stop mixing agricultural policy with fuels policy.
In that same speech, at a fuels conference in Washington, Ms. Woertz also publicly expressed worry about the unintended consequences of a federal [...]

Agroup of Maryland grain farmers who have been trying to push ahead with plans to build the state’s first ethanol production plant can be forgiven for feeling as though they are pursuing an elusive objective.
“We thought we would be further along than we are at this time, but we are working at it,” Eastern Shore [...]