(EnergyAsia, September 11 2012, Tuesday) — Prophecy Coal Corp, a Canadian company focused on coal and power projects in Mongolia, said wholly-owned subsidiary Prophecy Power Generation LLC has submitted its power purchase agreement proposal to the Mongolian government. The proposed agreement details the terms under which Prophecy Power would be prepared to supply power to (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — Bunker fuel spilled into the sea off Singapore’s Jurong Island at about 2 pm yesterday (September 9) following a collision between two vessels. Less than 60 metric tonnes of bunker fuel leaked from the tank of a South Korean-registered liquefied petroleum gas carrier, DL Salvia, after it collided with (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — Foster Wheeler AG said it has been awarded a contract by Shell Global Solutions International B.V. to develop a basic engineering package (BEP) for a world-scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) facility at Ras Laffan in Qatar. Foster Wheeler did not reveal the value of the contract that was secured by (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — South Korean engineering firm Daelim said it has secured a US$345 million contract to build a coal-fired power plant in the Mekong River Delta for a subsidiary of state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). Daelim plans to deliver the 330MW unit of the O-Mon Thermal Power Plant to Can Tho (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 7 2012) — Royal Dutch Shell has signed to become the first customer to use a pioneering terminal now under construction in the Netherlands to store, break-bulk and distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG). The terminal at the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam port is being developed by gas infrastructure company NV Nederlandse Gasunie and liquid (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 7 2012, Friday) — Asia’s three largest economies share a common threat from increasingly insufficient and unreliable domestic power supplies to meet demand growth. For now, Japan and India, the region’s second and third largest economies, are the most threatened as companies have been forced to reduce or shut down operations with the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 6 2012, Thursday) — Shell said it and its partners will invest a total of C$1.3 billion to build the world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation located in Canada’s Alberta province. (US$1=C$0.99). The Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca oil sands project (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 6 2012, Thursday) — Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard is mocking those predicting the top of the mining boom by citing a well-worn Mark Twain quote in response to false rumours that he had died. “Reports of the mining boom’s death have been exaggerated,” Ms Gillard told the 8th Australian Association of Mining (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 5 2012, Wednesday) — Ship engine exhaust emissions make up more than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions generated in Australia, according to a recently-published study by CSIRO and the Australian Maritime College in Launceston. Nitrogen oxide is a non-greenhouse gas, unlike similarly named nitrous oxide. The remainder comes from road and air (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 5 2012, Wednesday) — Energy media groups Platts and Argus have expanded their coal pricing and reporting services. Platts, a McGraw-Hill unit, said it has expanded its power sector pricing references for India, China and Asia with its launch of a new price assessment for Indonesia-loaded thermal coal cargoes. Known as Platts Kalimantan (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 5 2012, Wednesday) — Brazilian mining company Vale SA said it has resumed production at its Carborough Downs coal mine in the Central Bowen Basin in Australia’s Queensland state. Citing safety reasons after detecting abnormally high levels of carbon monoxide, the company declared force majeure and stopped work at the metallurgical coal mine (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 4 2012, Tuesday) — In Indonesia, a Thai independent power producer, Electricity Generating (Egco Group), has acquired a 40% stake in a coal mine project, while India’s National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) has cancelled a coal supply deal for its captive power plant. Egco said it paid US$197 million for the 40% stake (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 4 2012, Tuesday) — Australia is unlikely to achieve the government’s model carbon price of A$29 a tonne by 2015 from linking it to Europe’s emissions market, said carbon analysis firm RepuTex. (US$1=A$0.98). The company gave this assessment in response to the announcement by Australia’s Minister for Climate Change & Efficiency, Greg Combet, (more…)