(EnergyAsia, October 26 2010, Tuesday) — PowerSeraya Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s YTL Power International Bhd, has officially started up its new 800 megawatt (MW) combined-cycle power plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island. The natural gas-fired plant simultaneously generates electricity and steam to service growing demand from the over 95 petrochemical companies on the island. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 25 2010, Monday) — Award winning integrated logistics specialist Agility is targeting the oil and gas industry and its operations in Asia to spur its growth. Early this month, the company walked away with the prestigious ‘Logistics Award’ for the third consecutive year at the Lloyd’s List Asia Awards ceremony. Attended by 300 (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 21 2010, Thursday) — OSEA, one of Asia’s leading offshore oil and gas events, will focus on health, safety and environmental (HSE) issues this year. OSEA will launch its inaugural Leaders’ Summit to discuss the growing HSE threats resulting from oil and gas companies taking on risks as they push the boundaries of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 19 2010, Tuesday) — The flagship event of Singapore’s process industry, ProcessCEM Asia 2010, was declared opened by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Lim Hng Kiang, amid growing optimism for its prospect in the coming years. Organised by the Association of Process Industry (ASPRI), this second edition of the event featured the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 18 2010, Monday) — Shell has installed Metso’s new intelligent valve technology at its largest petrochemicals project, the Houdini complex in Singapore, which officially started up in May 2010. Technology company Metso said it was awarded the contract to install the new parts in the complex’s pneumatically operated on-off valves. Metso said its (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 11 2010, Monday) — Integrated business hub Mapletree Business City (MBC), a 1.7-million-square-foot mixed development of Singapore-based Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, has received the Trane “Energy Efficiency Leader Award” for its use of innovative methods to monitor, control and reclaim waste energy. Mapletree said the complex features energy-efficient infrastructure systems which require 34% (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 8 2010, Friday) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) said it has established MHI Industrial Engineering and Services Private Ltd (MIES) in Singapore to handle the company’s machinery and steel structures business. MHI said its subsidiary will function as a marketing and service base for environmental and chemical plant projects in the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 7 2010, Thursday) — Due to declining international feed-in tariff rates and increased local incentives, China has begun transitioning from exporting the bulk of its finished solar products to installing them locally. Energy sustainability has become increasingly important, and as a clean, safe and economical energy source, solar power is attracting more attention (more…)

(EnergyAsia, October 6 2010, Wednesday) — Complex marine riser systems expert 2H Offshore, a member company of the UK subsea engineering specialist group Acteon, has opened a regional base in Perth, Australia to better serve its Asia Pacific customers. The Houston, Texas-based company specialises in the analysis, design, procurement and integrity monitoring of complex marine (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 30 2010, Thursday) — The following is an edited version of the speech delivered by Lawrence Wong, chief executive of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA), at the World LNG Series (Asia-Pacific Summit) in Singapore on September 21. As countries worldwide strive to decarbonise their energy mix, natural gas will be an important part (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 29 2010, Wednesday) — Mott MacDonald, a UK-based global management, engineering and development consultancy, hosted a one-day seminar at the Grand Park Esil Hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan on September 21. More than 40 representatives from oil and gas, government and investment organisations attended the seminar, which helped raised Mott MacDonald’s profile in the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 24 2010, Friday) — Singapore-based TUV SUD PSB, a leading service provider for a comprehensive and integrated suite of product testing, inspection and certification services, was a gold sponsor at the SGBC Green Building Conference held earlier this month at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands. With its theme of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 22 2010, Wednesday) — By Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx. Those seeking to create multibillion dollar businesses in electric vehicles, their components, intellectual property and services should look at the world’s largest market – Asia. This region of the world purchases about 56% of the global market value of electric vehicles for land, (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 21 2010, Tuesday) — The Hanlong Group, a Sichuan, China-based industrial conglomerate involved in solar power generation, wastewater treatment, infrastructure development and mining, last week announced plans for its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sichuan Zhonghan Solar Power Co Ltd, to set up its international headquarters in Singapore. Along with the new regional office, Zhonghan Solar (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 21 2010, Tuesday) — Australia is now well and truly on the world pipelines map, with an increasing amount of attention from other countries on the development of our major coal seam gas-to LNG projects, said Peter Cox, President of the Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA), last week. “It really is an unprecedented (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 17 2010, Friday) — The 9th Asia Pacific Mining Conference and Exhibition (APMCE), organised by the ASEAN Federation of Mining Association (AFMA), will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta on October 13 and 14. APMCE, the association of mining groups in Southeast Asia, expects more than 550 executives representing a range (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 17 2010, Friday) — Global climate solutions specialist Trane has opened its first Asia Pacific centre of excellence for energy efficiency as part of its effort to lead in green energy concepts and reducing carbon emissions. The company said the centre will support the development of energy-smart solutions for urban structures, offer guidelines (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 16 2010, Thursday) — OSEA 2010 International Conference will be held at Suntec Convention and Exhibition centre in Singapore from November 30 to December 3.  The conference will feature an array of topics and panel discussions from the areas of exploration to production, and gas technology and recovery. The OSEA Leaders’ Summit will (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 14 2010, Tuesday) — Global electronics giant Hitachi Limited, held its environmental sustainability event, the Hitachi Eco Conference 2010, in Singapore early this month through its Singapore-based subsidiary, Hitachi Asia Limited. Entitled “Conserving Biodiversity through Effort by Public and Private Partnerships”, the conference aimed to raise awareness of Hitachi’s contribution to the biodiversity (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 13 2010, Monday) — Singapore-based NR-X Pte Ltd said it has successfully executed the first physical delivery of a marine fuel cargo transaction Internet-based physical commodity procurement and trading system at www.nr-x.com. The deal was transacted between an unidentified major European shipping firm and an Asia-based oil supply company at the port of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 6 2010, Monday) — Coal Trading Asia 2010, organised by the Asia Business Forum, will be held at the Grand Park city Hall hotel in Singapore from October 25 to 26. The conference aims to provide an update on coal supply and demand trends in and around major Asian markets, and latest developments (more…)

(EnergyAsia, August 30 2010, Monday) —Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), the first pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange, said it will begin trading on August 31. The first phase of product launches will include a gold futures contract with physical delivery in high-security vaults in Singapore, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, Brent-Euro crude oil (more…)

(EnergyAsia, August 30 2010, Monday) — Dutch oil logistics giant Royal Vopak N.V. said Eelco Hoekstra, president of its Asia division, will be succeeding John Paul Broeders as chairman of its executive board on March 1 2011. Mr Broeders has been appointed chairman of the board of SHV Holdings. Having worked with the company since (more…)

(EnergyAsia, August 25 2010, Wednesday) — POWER-GEN Asia, the conference and exhibition for the power generation and transmission and distribution industries, will be held at the recently opened Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore from November 2 to 4. Organised by Pennwell Corporation, the event, will be a headline event for the Singapore International Energy (more…)

(EnergyAsia, August 13 2010, Friday) — PEC Limited, a Singapore-based specialist engineering group servicing the oil, gas, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, has received a record seven awards from the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council. Classified under the Safety and Health Award Recognition for Projects (SHARP) category of the WSH Awards 2010, the awards recognise (more…)