(EnergyAsia, March 3, Tuesday) — Asia Business Forum’s conference on ‘Facilities and Maintenance Management for Industrial Plants’ will be held at the Park Royal Hotel in Singapore on March 2 and 3. The event will feature a presentation by Kapar Energy Ventures turnaround manager Luk Chau Beng on ‘Effective shutdown and turnaround strategies for industrial (more…)
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — The Oxford Princeton Programme will be holding a course on petrochemical economics in Singapore from March 16 to 18. The ‘Petrochemical Markets and Economics – The Impact of Feedstocks and Costs on Competitiveness and Business Strategy’ will provide a fundamental understanding of petrochemical economic and the feedstock-price inter-relationships affecting market (more…)
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — The ‘Commercial Fundamentals of the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry’ conference, organised by Neoedge Pte Ltd, will be held at the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel & Towers in UAE from March 1 to 4. The conference, which comprises six modules, will provide delegates with a practical and in-depth understanding of (more…)
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — Signs of oil demand, supply cuts and credit flows are keeping oil prices supported strongly at the $40 per barrel level basis US WTI.While US, European and Japanese oil demand have plummeted, the emerging countries are still showing growth. Government efforts to unfreeze the credit markets could show results later...
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — China’s Suntech Power recently announced that its PV cell and module production capacity in Wux city has exceeded 1GW. The company also opened its new headquarters in the city that incorporates a 1MW grid-connected building integrated solar facade, said to be the largest in the world.“We are very proud to...
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — Japan’s Kyocera Corp said it has begun building a new solar module manufacturing plant in Tianjin city in China that will boost the group’s solar cells production capacity to 650MW by March 2012.The production capacity of subsidiary Kyocera (Tianjin) Solar Energy Co Ltd will be raised to 240MW by 2011,...
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — Meiya Power Company Limited (MPC) said that it has acquired a hydro power project in Shangri-la in China’s Yunnan province through its joint venture investment holding company, Xiangtou International.MPC’s JV unit bought a 90% interest in Shangri-la Minhe Hydropower Development Co Ltd established to develop small hydro clusters in the...
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — In the space of a few weeks, China’s globe-trotting leaders unveiled several multi-billion-dollar deals to secure long-term oil and gas supplies from major producing countries around the world. The deals contrasted starkly against a backdrop of gloom over the state of the world economy as the US and Europe were...
(EnergyAsia, March 2, Monday) — Suzlon Energy Limited, India’s largest wind turbine maker, said its subsidiary, Suzlon Energy Australia Pty Ltd, has landed a large order to supply 54 units of its S88 2.1MW wind turbine generators to AGL Energy of Australia this year. To be deployed on AGL’s wind farms, the generators have a...