Asia

A geothermal blowout in Japan

He often tweets about mud volcanoes, but today Mark Tingay retweeted a message from a Japanese user of Twitter who filmed a violent eruption of steam – possibly mixed with…

Interest from majors shows that Bangladesh is still on the exploration map

Gas is the dominant energy source for power generation in Bangladesh; it has fuelled the nation’s rapid economic growth during the last several decades. However, dwindling domestic production, mostly from…

“All the Beautiful Domes”

Royal Dutch Shell owed its origins to Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New…

Attention for Andaman

In Southeast Asia, industry attention in recent months has been very much focused on the deep-water Indonesian portion of the Andaman Sea. This is a consequence of the Harbour Energy…