Russia takes over as top oil supplier to China; Technology alliance for China’s energy internet established

（2015/06/22-2015/06/28）

Review of International Energy News
——Russia is now the largest supplier of crude to China, having passed Saudi Arabia in May of this year when China imported more than 3.9 million metric tons of Russian crude but imports from Saudi Arabia plummeted by 42% from April.
——The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is considering the option of China as a transit route for low-enriched uranium (LEU) to the planned international fuel bank in Kazakhstan, a Kazakh government official has told local journalists.
——Global power generation will experience five dominant trends over the next 25 years, putting unprecedented pressure on energy companies, utilities and policy-makers, according to the New Energy Outlook 2015, published on 23th June 2015.
——The Diet in Japan on 17th June enacted a law that will separate electricity generation from transmission in April 2020, as the final step of a drastic, three-stage shake-up of the nation’s power sector.

Review of Domestic Energy News
——Gong-Shan Zhu, Chairman of Golden Concord Holdings Limited (GCL), represented 10 institutions like GCL Group and Tsinghua University to established the technology alliance for China’s energy internet.
——From 10th June to 15th June, the sea trials for the first time at the depth of over 3000 meters deep seabed, on the seabed 60 meters drilling, indicated that China has the ability to deep-water seabed sampling of our country after the United States, Germany, Australia, to master the fourth technology of the country.
——According to China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), since 2004, the first West-East gas pipeline project in China has supplied 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas, from which 400 million people have benefitted.