(EnergyAsia, February 22 2013, Friday)– Foster Wheeler AG said a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design and supply three utility package steam generators for the onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities located near Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. The contract was awarded by the joint venture comprising CH2M (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 22 2013, Friday) — Citing concerns over water management, toxic chemical disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and other community impacts, some investors in the US are demanding oil and gas companies to disclose critical information about the ways they are managing and measuring the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operations and shale...
(EnergyAsia, February 21 2013, Thursday) — Bouyed by increased production and higher oil and gas prices in 2012, Thailand’s leading upstream company PTT Exploration & Production Pcl (PTTEP), said profit surged 28% to a record 57.32 billion baht from 44.75 billion baht in 2011. (US$1=29.9 baht). Revenue was up 25.8% to 218.14 billion baht while (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 21 2013, Thursday) — Russia’s leading crude producer, Rosneft, could double its 300,000 b/d crude exports to China as part of a new ageement to raise at least US$30 billion to fund upstream projects in the Arctic and Siberian regions. Rosneft, which recently announced an upstream tie-up with ExxonMobil, has targeted to develop...
(EnergyAsia, February 21 2013, Thursday) — UAE’s Crescent Group said it plans to expand its cooperation with Russian companies this year, starting with two port and logistics investments. The group will undertake these projects through its two subsidiaries, Crescent Petroleum, the oldest private oil company in the Middle East, and non-energy firm, Crescent Enterprises, which (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 21 2013, Thursday) — Chinese companies raised their production of refined products at home and crude oil from abroad last year. Responding to rising domestic consumption, Chinese refiners processed 467.91 million tons of crude oil in 2012 for a 3.7% increase over the previous year, said the National Development and Reform Commission. The...
(EnergyAsia, February 20 2013, Wednesday) — China’s largest energy company said it missed its target to produce 120 million metric tons of oil and gas from its overseas operations by more than 13% or around 16 million metric tons. China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) blamed political unrest and military conflicts in the Middle East, Africa...
(EnergyAsia, February 20 2013, Wednesday) — US major Chevron Corp said it has decided to proceed with the US$5.6 billion development of the giant offshore Mafumeira Sul field in Angola. Due to start up in 2015, Mafumeira Sul is expected to eventually peak at a daily production rate of 110,000 barrels of crude oil and (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 20 2013, Wednesday) — China’s largest offshore oil and gas company will boost its capital expenditure (capex) by between 25% and 50% this year from 2012’s US$9.2 billion while maintaining a conservative target of producing around 343 million barrels oil equivalent (boe). With this strategy, state-owned CNOOC Limited is assuming it will face...
(EnergyAsia, February 19 2013, Tuesday) — Oil and coal accounted for 7.9% of China’s world record US$3.87 trillion merchandise trade last year. According to the country’s Customs authority, China’s import of crude and oil products last year rose 12.2% to more than US$253 billion while its coal purchases surged 37.3% to US$28.7 billion. Being a...
(EnergyAsia, February 19 2013, Tuesday) — State-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said it expects to start up a 793-km pipeline in May to deliver natural gas from Myanmar that will enable China to reduce dependence on shipping through the congested Straits of Malacca. The pipeline will have the capacity to deliver 12 billion cubic...
(EnergyAsia, February 19 2013, Tuesday) — The International Energy Agency (IEA) now expects world oil demand growth to rise by 845,000 b/d to reach 90.715 million in 2013, down slightly from its previous forecast for it to reach 90.8 million b/d. In its latest February monthly report, the Paris-based agency said world oil demand will (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 19 2013, Tuesday) — Chinese officials are pushing for the start-up of construction of a long-delayed joint-venture oil refinery between state CNPC and Russia’s Rosneft in Tianjin city later this year. Originally scheduled to start up last year, the proposed 260,000 b/d refinery was part of a wider agreement signed in 2009 in...
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2013, Monday) — Oiltanking Nanjing Co Ltd has started up a state-of-the-art railcar loading and unloading facility at its terminal in the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park (NCIP) in China’s Jiangsu province. Now connected to the park’s railway system and the national railway network, the terminal offers customers all modes of transportation including (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2013, Monday) — This article, written by Frank Wright and Isla Parsons of consulting group Douglas-Westwood, is adapted from its latest report, “Iraq and Kurdistan: Drilling & Oilfield Services Market.” * The potential scale of the Iraqi oil sector is unprecedented in recent times and represents a significant opportunity for the drilling (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2013, Monday) — The solar photovoltaic (PV) power sector is set to expand sharply across the world on growing demand for energy and rapidly improving technology provided at lower prices, said UK research and consulting firm GlobalData. In its latest report, the company predicts global installation of solar PV capacity to rise (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2013, Monday) — Singapore’s largest power company has completed a S$1 billion programme to transform three oil-fired steam plants into two gas-fired combined cycle units that will significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. (US$1=S$1.25). At a ceremony earlier this month, Senoko Energy marked the completion of its 32-month completed Stage 2 repowering (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 18 2013, Monday) — Global oil and gas transactions surged 19% to reach a record US$402 billion last year, with gains in upstream deals more than offsetting the decline in downstream buy-outs, said consultant Ernst & Young. Calling this a “staggering” amount, Ernst & Young said the industry consummated an average of more...
(EnergyAsia, February 15 2013, Friday) — Despite its reputation for having the world’s most polluted cities, China is making progress in cleaning up its environment faster than many people realise, according to a UK energy consultant. Jonathan Lane, GlobalData’s head of consulting for power and utilities, has compared China’s current air pollution levels to some (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 15 2013, Friday) — Canada’s Challenger Deep Resources Corp said its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Bestindo Energy, has signed an exclusive contract to mine and market coal from a project in central Kalimantan province in Indonesia. The agreement with Indonesian firm, Kara Elmas Madenleri (KEM), “gives Challenger the exclusive right, for a period (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 15 2013, Friday) — With a total of 230 fuel outlets, Singapore’s Puma Energy has laid claim to becoming Australia’s largest independent fuel retailer with its planned buy-out of Ausfuel from Archer Capital. The company made its first investment in Australia last month when it acquired Neumann Petroleum’s retail portfolio of more than...
(EnergyAsia, February 15 2013, Friday) — The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects the nation’s delivered coal prices to continue rising over the next two years. After averaging US$2.39 per million British thermal unit (BTU) in 2011, US coal prices edged up a penny to US$2.40 last year. The agency expects prices to rise to (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 15 2013, Friday) — The floods and heavy rainfalls that hit Australia last month directly impacted coal mines and rail networks that account for 78 million tonnes of production for the export market this year, said consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. One week of lost production from these mines equals to about 1.5 million...
(EnergyAsia, February 14 2013, Thursday) — Australian miner Hodges Resources Limited said it expects to advance a major coal project in Botswana to the feasibility phase following the positive outcome of recent mine scoping and power integration studies. Declaring itself “extremely pleased with the outcome” of the studies, Hodges said the feasibility phase studies will (more…)
(EnergyAsia, February 14 2013, Thursday) –A Seattle-based think tank said it is releasing a report to show that Australia’s Ambre Energy has “little potential to deliver on promises” to create jobs and major economic benefits with its plan to build two coal export terminals on the Columbia River in Washington state. The company is envisioning (more…)