(EnergyAsia, July 9 2012, Monday) — US-based Intergraph said it has expanded its Kuala Lumpur office in Malaysia to support customers in implementing SmartPlant® and SmartMarine® Enterprise suites of engineering solutions. Boosted by a vibrant oil and gas industry with a strong international presence, the Malaysian economy has experienced strong growth in recent years. Intergraph (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 9 2012, Monday) — Through wholly-owned subsidiary Therma South Inc (TSI), Philippines’ Aboitiz Power Corporation has signed several contracts worth a total of US$546 million to build a 300-MW circulating-fluidised-bed coal-fired power generation plant in the country’s southern Mindanao province. The mix of local and foreign contractors will build the plant in Barangay (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 6 2012, Friday) — Wartsila, the Finland-based marine solutions and services provider, said it has received an order to supply fully integrated power generation and propulsion packages for three vessels being built for Pacific Radiance Ltd, a Singapore-based company specialising in offshore service activities. Wartsila said its packages will help meet Pacific Radiance’s (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 6 2012, Friday) — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he has taken note of a huge international lawsuit filed against his government for allegedly failing to honour the terms of UK-based Churchill Mining Plc’s investment in a coal project in Kalimantan province as set out under a bilateral investment treaty between the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 6 2012, Friday) — Praxair China said it has started up a large air separation plant in Wuwei in Anhui province to supply oxygen, nitrogen and clean air to a coal-based chemicals plant in nearby Jiangsu province. Located 100 km from Nanjing city in eastern China, Anhui HuaYi Chemical Co Ltd’s plant converts (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 6 2012, Friday) — Australia’s Cougar Energy Limited said it has extended its agreement for the use of a proprietary underground coal gasification (UCG) technology from Canadian technical partner Ergo Exergy Technologies Inc. Cougar said it signed the extension for the use of the Montreal-based company’s ?UCGTM Technology just as it is “aggressively (more…)

Map of Batang in Java, IndonesiaSources: Adaro Energy, J-Power, Itochu Corp (EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — Greenpeace activists staged a march through Jakarta city yesterday in protest against plans by a consortium to build Southeast Asia’s largest coal-fired power plant in the coastal district of Batang on north central Java. Stopping at the Maritime (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — Singapore-based Good Coal Pte Ltd has been awarded an exclusive technology licensing agreement to develop, deploy and market a proprietary clean coal technology in Southeast Asia. US-based Clean Coal Technologies Inc which owns a 45% stake in Good Coal said the newly established company will promote its Pristine-M technology. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 5 2012, Thursday) — NYSE-listed InterOil Corp said it is separating the roles of chairman and chief executive and added two members to its board including a former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The company, which is focused on developing oil and gas projects in Papua New Guinea, said Rabbie Namaliu, who (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Canada’s Erdene Resource Development Corp said it has agreed to separate its domestic and Mongolian mineral and coal assets into two companies. Erdene will sell off its 25% interest in the Donkin coal project in Cape Breton in Canada’s Nova Scotia province to another Canadian firm, Advanced Primary Minerals (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Aspire Mining Limited said it and rail giant JSC Russian Railways (RZD) are discussing the possibility of extending the Trans-Mongolian Railway across northern Mongolia that would help deliver coking coal from the Australian firm’s Ovoot mine. The discussion is provided for under a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — Brent crude rebounded above US$100 a barrel July 3 for the first time since June 11 on worries that oil supplies could be affected by the growing tensions between Iran and the West, strike action by Norwegian oil workers, and possible work disruption in the Gulf of Mexico with (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 4 2012, Wednesday) — China’s energy use and production growth are showing signs of slowing down. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s electricity production grew by just 4.7% to just under 3,900 billion watt-hours in the first five months of the year, with thermal power output rising by just 4.1%. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Following on the Queensland state government’s announced support for the expansion of two major coal mining areas, Australia’s QR National said it is evaluating a joint proposal for an integrated rail proposal after awarding a A$76-million contract for a new loop section to the Wiggin Island project. (US$1=A$0.97). Australia’s (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Japanese trading house Sojitz Corporation said it has agreed to pay RMB30 million for a 10% stake in Inner Mongolia Zhongmeng Coal Co Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China’s Inner Mongolia Erdos Group, which is involved in Mongolia’s resource business. (US$1=RMB6.36). As Japan’s third largest coal trader, Sojitz, which (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 3 2012, Tuesday) — Australia mining giant BHP Billiton said it will invest US$845 million to expand its Appin metallurgical coking coal mine, south-west of Sydney, to replace production from its nearby West Cliff mine. The company expects the new 3.5-million-tonne site to be operational in 2016 in time to maintain its production (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 2 2012, Monday) — Australia’s resources and energy commodity export earnings are forecast to reach a record A$209 billion in the financial year ending June 30 2013, said the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). The agency did not give an estimate for the country’s export earnings for the last financial year (more…)

(EnergyAsia, July 2 2012, Monday) — Australia’s International Coal (ICX) said it has concluded a farm-in and joint venture agreement with Queensland Coal Investments Pty Ltd (QCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL), with respect to various tenements in the Maryborough basin. Located in a well-known and highly prospective hard coking (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 29 2012, Friday) — Malaysia’s state-owned energy company Petronas has agreed to purchase Canadian gas producer Progress Energy Resources Corp for C$5.5-billion, and to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal in the coastal town of Prince Rupert. (US$1=C$1.03). The proposed acquisition will build on the companies’ previous announcement to develop a portion (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 29 2012, Friday) — The Shah Deniz consortium, led by UK’s BP and Norway’s Statoil, has concluded its evaluation of potential gas export routes towards Southeastern and Central Europe. In a statement, the consortium operator BP said the Nabucco West project with a route running from the Turkish-Bulgarian border to Baumgarten has been (more…)