(EnergyAsia, February 20, Friday) — The region’s largest mining investment event, the ‘5th Annual Asia Mining Congress 2009’, will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore from March 23 to 27. The conference will discuss global industry issues, opportunities in international partnerships, Asian mining projects and opportunities in junior mining sector. Regulatory (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 20, Friday) — KTL Global Limited, a Singapore-based supplier of rigging equipment to the offshore oil and gas sector, has reported a 37.4% year-on-year increase in net profit after tax to S$3 million for the half-year ended December 31 2008. (US$1=S$1.5). Group revenue increased 37.7% to S$37.4 million, boosted by strong demand for (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 19, Thursday) — The Asia Business Forum will be hosting the ‘Health, Safety & Environment for Oil and Gas’ conference at the Novotel Clarke Quay hotel in Singapore from March 24 and 25. The conference will be discussing cutting-edge techniques and best practices for the oil and gas industry and will be featuring (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 18, Wednesday) — Green Power Conferences will be holding the ‘Solar Innovation and Investment Asia’ event in Shanghai, China on March 31 and April 1. The conference, which will run alongside the 4th Annual Asia Solar Expo – an event focused on photovoltaics, solar system projects and solar architecture – will provide a (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 18, Wednesday) — The ‘2nd Annual Petrochemical summit’ will be held in Beijing, China on March 12 and 13. The global financial crisis has greatly affected the petrochemical industry. Despite the economic downturn and falling demand, China recorded a GDP growth of nine percent in the first three quarters of 2008.  The conference (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 17, Tuesday) — PennWell Corporation will be holding the ‘Offshore Asia’ conference at the IMPACT Convention and Exhibition Centre in Bangkok, Thailand from March 31 to April 2. The event aims to provide key information on Asia’s expanding offshore industry as well as opportunities for industry professionals to network. PennWell Corporation said the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 17, Tuesday) — Two leading Singapore-based marine fuel companies have announced the appointment of senior executives. Global Energy International said it has appointed Andrew Cheah as general manager for business development and marketing from February 1, 2009. The company said: “His extensive knowledge in products trading and global marine fuels supply over the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 10, Tuesday) — Australia’s Mission NewEnergy Limited said it will start up its second biofuel refinery in Kuantan city in Malaysia next month. The 250,000-tonne-per-year plant, located near an existing 100,000 t/y refinery, will require debt funding for completion.   The Australian Stock Exchange-listed company said it expects to operate profitably in 2009 (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 6, Friday) — Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, said it has been chosen to develop and implement four large-scale, fully digitised nuclear control rooms, equipped with the latest simulation technologies, critical control and safety systems for two new nuclear power plant sites in China. The agreement is (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 6, Friday) — While most Australians are taking care to shield themselves from the harsh summer heat, scientists from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship are working on ways to harness the sun’s warmth to cool homes and offices. CSIRO is Australia’s largest scientific research agency. The leader of the flagship’s solar cooling research (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 5, Thursday) — A major regional conference closed in Bangkok, Thailand last week with an urgent call for businesses and governments in the Asia Pacific region to make climate change adaptation central to their core operations. The “Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2009/Climate Game Change – Innovations and Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation” brought together (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 5, Thursday) — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) said it has received an order for an 800 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) power generation system from ENMAX Green Power Inc, a subsidiary of Canada’s ENMAX Corp. The power generation system is destined for the Shepard Energy Centre to be (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 4, Wednesday) — USONYX, a leading Asian web hosting service provider, and Japan’s NEC Asia, have teamed up to help raise the energy efficiency of data centres. Developed with the goal of introducing powerful and precise yet environmentally-friendly products into data-centre markets, they said the NEC Express5800/iModel servers feature 1U rack optimised size (more…)

(Energy Asia, February 4, Wednesday) — India’s Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) said it has developed ethanol-powered lanterns and stoves. The appliances come with cylinders for low-grade ethanol that provide a supply of up to 25 days. In their application, the ethanol cylinders can be reused and will function like the widely-used cylinders for liquid (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 3, Tuesday) — Demand for direct current (DC) systems is rapidly growing across Southeast Asia, especially in the low and medium power-level segments. The booming telecommunications sector is one of the primary contributors to this momentum. Widespread deployment of high-speed Internet transmission in wireline applications and the huge rollout of wireless applications in (more…)

(EnergyAsia, February 2, Monday) — Black & Veatch, a leading engineering, consulting and construction company, said that its patented PRICO® liquefied natural gas (LNG) process is helping bring natural gas supplies to customers in rural China. The first LNG facility, in Erdos, Inner Mongolia, attained full production capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year last (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 29, Thursday) — August Energy Pte Ltd will be holding a workshop on ‘Bunkering Principles, Management & Operations’ in Singapore on February 24 and 25. The course, endorsed by the Maritime Port and Authority of Singapore (MPA), will feature overviews of the bunker and shipping industries in Singapore and Asia. Topics covered include (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 29, Thursday) — Green Power Conferences will be holding the ‘BioPower Generation Asia’ conference in Singapore on March 25 and 26. The conference aims to serve as a platform for participants to discuss issues as well as gain insight into market movements, policy frameworks, financial opportunities, new technologies, supply chain solutions and CDM (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 28, Wednesday) — Global Pacific and Partners will be holding its highly anticipated ‘14th Annual Asia Upstream 2009’ in Singapore from February 24 to 27. The conference will review upstream ventures, acreage opportunities, corporate strategies of the majors and independents, national oil companies and governments. It will also discuss issues related to investments, (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 23, Friday) — Indonesia’s PT Apexindo Pratama Duta Tbk said it has landed a US$2 million contract to lease a rig to VICO Indonesia for three months. Vico will deploy rig 8 to support its three-month drilling programme in Semberah in East Kalimantan. Apexindo has already leased out three other rigs to Vico. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 22, Thursday) — China’s CNOOC Limited said it expects to raise its net oil production to 225 to 231 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) this year, up from last year’s estimated 195 million BOE. In announcing its business strategy and development plan for the year, the company is projecting 2009’s crude price (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 22, Thursday) — Ecospec Global Technology Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based research and technology company specialising in advanced water and oil treatment technologies, said it has developed a new green technology that will remove greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from ships. These emissions contribute to global warming and degradation of the ocean environment. Ecospec (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 21, Wednesday) — Coaltrans Conferences’ ‘22nd International Coal Supply Contracts and Transport Logistics’ will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Singapore from March 9 to 13. The course aims to provide delegates with a complete overview of the coal supply chain – from mining and movement of coal to its end uses. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 20, Tuesday) — ‘Designing and Building Fuel Cells’ is a hands-on guide for the design, modelling, and construction of fuel cells that perform as well or better than existing products on the market today. Written by Colleen S. Spiegel, the book features complete information on stack design, the latest fuel cell modelling techniques, (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 20, Tuesday) — The ‘Global Sustainable Feedstock, Biofuels and Biochemical Summit’ will be held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from March 3 to 6. The conference will address critical issues including global demand for biofuels, challenges and opportunities, sustainable feedstock, cellulosic ethanol, waste-to-biofuel, as well as biochemical products. Issues (more…)