Review of International Energy News

◆ OPEC raised its forecast for global oil demand in 2014 to 10.9 billion barrels per day.

◆ Vostok Energy in Russia intended to team up with China to build the largeat thermal power station in the Far East at a cost of $26 billion.

◆ According to NHK television in Japan, adioactive cesium has been detected again in Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, at record high concentrations.

◆ Russia Energy Department anticipated that there would be an increase in the production of oil and natural gas in Russia in 2014.

Review of Domestic Energy News

◆ China announced it would not impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on the import of polycrystalline silicon from Europe temporarily.

◆ China Petroleum and chemical industry association (CPCIF) caculated that the demand of petroleum chemicals in China in 2014 will increase.

◆ The rectification of hidden dangers in the energy pipeline starts up in Qingdao.