(EnergyAsia, November 8 2013, Friday) — Supreme Group, a Dubai-based provider of logistics services in challenging environments around the world, said it has secured a UK defence contract to supply aviation fuel and refuelling services to mostly military aircraft in 96 international civilian airports. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 In a statement, Supreme Group will serve mostly Royal Air...

(EnergyAsia, November 7 2013, Thursday) — Australia’s Linc Energy said it has received “strong” approval from shareholders to leave the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in favour of a listing on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Singapore Energy Series: http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59&product_id=270 Energy Map of China 2013: http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 Following yesterday’s vote at the company’s extraordinary general meeting in Brisbane,...

(EnergyAsia, November 7 2013, Thursday) — Australia’s mining giant BHP Billiton has agreed to sell a coal mine in the US state of New Mexico to a company owned and operated by the Navajo Nation tribe for US$85 million. Established earlier this year, Navajo Transitional Energy Co LLC (NTEC) expects to complete the acquisition of...

(EnergyAsia, November 6 2013, Wednesday) — China Metallurgical Group Corporation (CMTCC) said it has started up a coal-washing facility in the far western region of Xinjiang. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 The washery was built as part of the group’s 2.4-million tonnes/year coking coal project undertaken by subsidiary Xinjiang Fukang Yongxin Coalification Company. The project’s contractor, Northwest Company of...

(EnergyAsia, November 6 2013, Wednesday) — Finland’s Wartsila said it has secured an order from Indonesia’s state-owned PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk to supply a 184MW gas-fired power plant for construction in Aceh in Sumatra province. PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk, a government-owned company and one of Indonesia’s biggest construction contractors which placed the order,...

(EnergyAsia, November 5 2013, Tuesday) — Singapore Exchange (SGX) plans to offer electricity futures trading in the second half of next year, enabling consumers and producers to hedge as well as lock in their energy costs. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 SGX said it is working with six of the country’s main power-generation companies, YTL PowerSeraya Pte Ltd, Senoko...

(EnergyAsia, November 4, 2013, Tuesday) — Resources giant Rio Tinto will focus its Australian coal operations on the Kestrel and Hail Creek coking coal mines following the proposed sale of its majority stake in the Clermont thermal coal mine, all located in Queensland state. Ten days after a ceremony marking the US$2 billion extension of...

(EnergyAsia, November 4 2013, Monday) — Leighton Contractors Pty Limited said it has secured a three-year contract worth A$249 million to provide mining, operating and maintenance services for the Isaac Plains coal project in Australia’s Queensland state. (US$1=A$1.05). http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange Limited, the company said it was awarded the...

(EnergyAsia, November 1 2013, Friday) — State energy firm Sinopec is planning to invest 183 billion yuan in a massive project in China’s Xinjiang region to convert coal into natural gas for use in the country’s eastern provinces. (US$1=6.1 yuan). http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 Located in the Zhundong area of the region’s Changji Hui autonomous prefecture, the plant...

(EnergyAsia, October 31 2013, Thursday) — Sitting atop the world’s third largest natural gas reserves, Qatar has grown rapidly to become the largest global liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, but it will be challenged later this decade by Australia, East Africa and North America, predicts UK-based research firm Business Monitor. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 In response, Qatar is...

(EnergyAsia, October 30 2013, Wednesday) — A think-tank has advised Canada to temper its excitement over prospects that the nascent liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in British Columbia (BC) could generate C$1 trillion in revenue, create more than 100,000 new jobs and deliver the province to debt-free nirvana by 2046. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 In describing BC as...

(EnergyAsia, October 30 2013, Wednesday) — The Australian developers of two large separate natural gas projects in Queensland state have agreed to swap product and share infrastructure to speed up implementation as well as save hundreds of millions of dollars in construction, operating and maintenance costs. The operators of the Santos GLNG and Australia Pacific...

(EnergyAsia, October 29 2013, Tuesday) — Wartsila, a leading solutions provider to the marine industry, said it has won contracts to supply propulsion systems for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier vessels and four ocean rescue vessels now under construction in separate shipyards in China. http://energycontents.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=301 The Helsinki, Finland company will also supply its proprietary...