LNG

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), the leading Chinese refiner and importer of LNG from Australia, the US and Qatar and with expanding import facilities and storage infrastructure, is pushing ahead with more offshore output in the East China Sea and onshore shale-gas and shale-oil production.

Royal Dutch Shell has sold a minority stake in a Queensland Curtis LNG export plant subsidiary in Queensland, the first coal-seam-gas-to-LNG facility to come on stream in 2014 and whose other project shareholder include China National Offshore Oil Corp.