tanks at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Fujian province. The company said it began construction of tanks number 3 and 4 on January 14 in response to the country’s growing demand for clean burning fuel. The two tanks will be ready by 2011. CNOOC said it expects to complete the main part of...
severe freak snow storm that has caused widespread disruptions to fuel, power and food supplies across a large part of the central and southern regions. Fearing this is turning into a political crisis, Beijing has appointed Premier Wen Jiabao to take charge of relief efforts following two weeks of harsh wintry conditions that have claimed...
Chinese subsidiary, Liaoning GaoKe Energy Group, has obtained a licensing agreement to produce and sell Fuhrlander AG’s 2.5 MW series wind turbine in China. Fuhrlander will also assist GaoKe in developing a plant in Shenyang city modeled after Fuhrlander’s plant in Germany, with completion expected in mid-2008. Fuhrlander will help ensure the wind turbines are...
Ltd (MRPL), a subsidiary of upstream giant ONGC, said its latest quarterly net profit surged 194% to Rs3.47 billion. (US$1=Rs40). MRPL said revenue for the October-December quarter rose 11% to Rs93.2 billion. Refining throughput fell 10% to 3.02 million tonnes due to a shutdown for maintenance of its secondary refining units in the last two...
trucks queue up outside fuel outlets in key cities awaiting fresh supplies. Shortages of diesel and kerosene have spread throughout the country, hitting the impoverished economy further. This week, oil traders told owners of cars, buses and trucks that fuel supplies were no longer available in most fuel outlets, forcing the nation’s major highways to...
certain types of biofuels that it claims are actually harming the environment. Green groups have successfully lobbied the EU to consider banning the use of biofuels produced from crops grown on scarce rainforests, wetlands and grasslands. The 27-member powerful EU bloc has been confronted with growing evidence that plantation owners are engaged in unsustainable environmental...
by 78.6% to S$508.3 million on strong demand and high margins for its refined products. (US$1=S$1.42). Revenues rose 2.2% to while basic earnings per share shot up by 78.5% to 98.78 Singapore cents. Chairman Choo Chiau Beng said: “SPC chalked up a historic Profit After Tax and Minority Interests (PATMI) of S$508.3 million in 2007. This...
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(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), said it has completed the construction of its second jackup drilling rig for Gulf Drilling International Ltd (GDI), a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Japan Drilling Co Ltd (JDC).At a ceremony...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — Pakistan’s energy supply shortages will likely worsen this year as oil companies do not have enough funds to pay for imports, in particular diesel.The oil companies said they are unable to participate in buying tenders for March and April, raising the spectre of a fuel crisis by the end of...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — Japan is paying record prices for its imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from Australia, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia as it struggles to meet rising demand to make up for power shortfalls at its nuclear plants. The recent spot purchases will lead to higher LNG prices for the rest of...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — China’s Suntech Power said it is participating in a solar-energy system constructed for the roof of the town hall in Genk in Belgium.The project was engineered by Netherlands-based Oskomera Solar Power Solutions (OSPS) in collaboration with Belgium-based ENECO Energie. The system consists of approximately 1,260 Suntech solar modules with a...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — BP will supply feedstocks to Jurong Aromatics Corp (JAC) and buy back the finished products in a US$10 billion agreement.The feedstock from the Middle East will be used in JAC’s new US$2 billion aromatics plant due to come onstream on Jurong Island in 2011. Construction is expected to start in...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — Japanese oil refiner Nippon Oil has agreed to become an ‘emergency’ crude oil supplier to New Zealand under a special deal recently signed with the Wellington.The agreement allows New Zealand to buy supplies from Japan through a ‘ticket contract’ system which provides the government with an option to purchase crude...
(EnergyAsia, January 30, Wednesday) — India’s Essar Shipping Limited has announced a plan to re-organise and consolidate the business of other businesses within the Essar group.It is exploring the option of merging its port and terminal assets with the drilling and exploration business of Essar Oilfields Services Limited.The ESL board has passed a resolution to...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — Indonesian state oil and gas firm Pertamina plans to invest US$2.2 billion this year to boost crude output and upgrade its refineries. The bulk or 62% of the funds will be spent on upstream projects with the remainder to be invested in the downstream and refining business. Indonesia, an OPEC...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country’s largest crude oil producer, is laying the foundation for future growth with investments in four large refinery projects this year. The plants at Dalian, Fushun, Dushanzi and Qinzhou will provide the company with more than 40 million tonnes of refining capacity. The first...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — China is offering to build a direct rail link to supply oil products to the energy-starved Himalayan nation of Nepal. The link would extend the Tibet railway system from Lhasa to the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. In Nepal, hydropower helps meet the bulk of domestic electricity demand. But only a...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — Essar Energy Overseas Ltd, a subsidiary of India’s Essar Oil Limited, has agreed to acquire 50% of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL) which owns a four-million-metric-tonne-a-year oil refinery in Kenya’s Mombasa city. The Kenyan government holds the other 50%. Essar said it will acquire the stake from existing shareholders Shell...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — Africa’s oil refiners will meet at the third annual meeting of the African Oil Refiners (ARA) event in Cape Town in South Africa from March 10 to 12. They will discuss product quality and health issues, and focus on meeting the challenges of competition from new refineries in India and...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — Expect oil prices to remain strong this year as world demand growth continues at a brisk pace while inventories decline further and production struggles to keep pace, said the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Paris-based oil watchdog for the industralised world said oil consumption in China, India and the Middle...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said his government will freeze soaring energy prices in the near term to check an 11-year-high inflationary rate caused by rising food and oil costs. Prices of fuel, oil products, natural gas and electricity along with water tariffs and public transportation fees would be frozen,...
(EnergyAsia, January 29, Tuesday) — The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), India’s biggest commodity exchange, has become the first in Asia and among a few around the world to launch futures trading in carbon credits (ECX-CFI MiniSM). Carbon credits are generated by organisations and companies in the developing world using cleaner technologies, thus reducing their greenhouse...
(EnergyAsia, January 28, Monday) — OCBC Investment Research Pte Ltd has rated the stock of Singapore-listed oil and gas engineering firm Federal International as a buy, despite lowering its fair value price to S$0.81 from $1.02 previously. (US$1=S$1.43). OCBC said weaker market sentiments around the world will increase volatility in share prices. As market and...
(EnergyAsia, January 28, Monday) — China’s upstream company CNOOC expects to start up its new 12-million-tonne-per-year refinery in Huizhou in southeastern Guangdong province later this year. The plant is capable of producing 7.3 million tons of oil products to meet the demand of the province’s fast growing oil market. The company is planning on building...