(EnergyAsia, January 19, Monday) — The ‘3rd Negotiating Successful Gas and LNG contracts’ workshop will be held at the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel and Towers in Dubai, UAE from February 23 to 26. Workshop organiser NeoEdge Pte Ltd said the advance course will provide detailed training that will enable participants to gain insight into the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 16, Friday) — IBC Global Conferences will be holding its Floating LNG (FLNG) event at Hotel Russell in London, UK on February 17 and 18. The event will provide delegates with an opportunity to meet over 150 representatives from the sector and at the same time assess the latest developments on current and (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 15, Thursday) — Pennwell’s fourth edition of ‘Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language’ provides  readers with a basic understanding of the industry by providing a detailed overview of key refining topics by using relevant analogies, graphs, formulas and illustrations. Written by William L. Leffler, the book contains information on the nature of crude oil (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 15, Thursday) — The ‘China Offshore Summit’, organised by the Global Leaders Institute, will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Beijing, China from March 18 to 20. The conference will address issues on the global offshore oil and gas industry, international cooperation, integration of global resources, development of deepwater technologies, and offshore (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 13, Tuesday) — US-based Solar Power Inc (SPI) said it has signed a one-year agreement to purchase up to 60 megawatts of its six-inch polycrystalline photovoltaic (PV) cells from China’s JA Solar Holding Co Ltd. The cells will be used for the ongoing production of SPI’s solar modules and to meet growing demand (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 9, Friday) — The Australian government has announced that it will bring forward the full amount of its A$1.4 billion Renewable Energy Fund by half billion dollars over the next 18 months. (US$1=A$1.4). Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said A$100 million will be available to be spent in 2008-09, and A$400 million will be (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 8, Thursday) — Malaysian state upstream company Petronas Carigali, ConocoPhillips of the US and Anglo-Dutch major Shell have signed a production sharing contract with state Petronas to appraise and develop four discovered natural gas and condensate fields in waters off the northwest coast of Sabah state. The Kebabangan, Kamunsu East, Kamunsu East Upthrown (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 7, Wednesday) — The Philippines has started up its first ethanol plant, a 27,000 litre/day facility in Leyte. The 300-million-peso plant, a converted sugar mill, is a joint venture between Philippine Agribusiness Development Corp (PADC) and India’s Praj, which provided the technology. (US$1 =47 peso). Praj supplied the distillation column and injected 33 (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 2, Friday) — The Oxford Princeton Programme will be holding the ‘Fundamentals of Energy Futures’ workshop in London, UK on January 26. The same course will be held in Singapore on May 18. This introductory course on energy futures, contracts and markets is a highly interactive workshop which includes a trading simulation and (more…)

(EnergyAsia, January 2, Friday) — UK-based KBC Advanced Technologies plc (KBC) said it has been appointed technical consultant for a major project for Hyundai Oilbank (HDO) in South Korea. KBC will be providing front-end engineering design (FEED) supervision services over the course of the 10-month contract for Hyundai Oilbank which is undertaking a multi-billion dollar (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 30, Tuesday) — This article, written by DNV is a Norway-based global provider of risk management services to enhance business performance, has been edited for publication.   Norway’s DNV said it is now developing a standard methodology for characterising, selecting and qualifying proper sites for geological storage of carbon dioxide – both offshore and (more…)

  Admin@EnergyAsia.com. (EnergyAsia, December 30, Tuesday) — Oxford Princeton’s ‘Energy Risk Management’ will be held in London, UK from January 28 to 29, and in Singapore from May 20 to 21. The course will provide delegates with a forum on how to maximise hedging efficiencies and limit price risk exposure. Delegates will learn to build (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 29, Monday) — The ‘Bulk Materials Handling Asia’ (BMH 2009) conference will be held at the M Hotel in Singapore from February 16 to 19. BMH Asia 2009 is the first event in the region that caters to the mining, cement, agriculture, fertiliser, chemical, ports, bulk logistics, coal fired power plant companies as (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 23, Tuesday) — The gC ICE Newcastle coal futures contract, developed jointly by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and globalCOAL, has begun trading on ICE Futures Europe. The first trade of the new contract on December 5 was financially settled against the globalCOAL NEWC Index, the leading price benchmark for seaborne thermal coal in the Asia-Pacific (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 22, Monday) — The Oxford Princeton Programme will be holding its ‘Derivatives Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management’ course in Perth, Australia from January 19 to 20. The course aims to provide delegates with a comprehensive overview of energy derivatives instruments and markets as well as an introduction to current best practices in pricing, (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 22, Monday) — Oxford Princeton’s workshop, ‘Overview of Physical Crude Oil Trading and Operations’, will be held in Singapore on February 17 to 18. The introductory workshop will provide delegates with an understanding of the physical crude oil trading market. The course will explore the linkage between well production, marketing, transportation, storage, refining (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 18, Thursday) — While East Asian countries have entered the current crisis substantially better prepared than they were for the 1997 Asian financial crisis, none have been spared the full fury of the global economic storm, said the World Bank. In its latest six-monthly assessment of the East Asia and Pacific region’s economic (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 18, Thursday) — The ‘14th Annual Asia Upstream 2009’ conference will be held in Singapore from February 24 to 27. Focusing on oil, LNG, and exploration and production activities in Asia, the conference will review upstream ventures, acreage opportunities, corporate strategies of the majors and independents, national oil companies and governments. It will (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 17, Wednesday) — Terrapinn’s ‘2nd Annual Transmission and Distribution Asia Congress 2009’ will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore from March 30 to April 2. The conference will address current regulatory developments, cross border transmission opportunities, the impact of renewable energy on current grid system, and the effectiveness of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 16, Tuesday) — 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, December 15, Monday) — Karachi Electric Supply Company Ltd (KESC) has ordered 64 Jenbacher gas engines from US-based GE Energy to supply 180 MW of urgently needed power to the local grid in Karachi city in Pakistan. The milestone contract was signed Nov 22 by the company’s new management team. KESC expects the first (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 11, Thursday) — UK’s dcarbon8 has been awarded the project to measure and manage the carbon footprint for the new Masdar City development in Abu Dhabi, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. This visionary project, driven by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC), a wholly owned company of the government of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 10, Wednesday) — US-based Air Products (APD) said it has signed a turnkey gas supply contract to provide on-site gases, liquid bulk gases, specialty gases and gas equipment to China‘s Best Solar Hi Tech Co Ltd, which is building a new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Wuzhong Economic Development Park in China. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 9, Tuesday) — Elf Gas Saigon, a joint venture of France’s Total (85%) and Vietnam’s Saigon Construction Corp (14%), has acquired Saigon Gas Holdings Corporation. Total said the acquisition will secure its position as one of the leading LPG suppliers in Vietnam, with an increase in gas market share to approximately 15%. It (more…)

(EnergyAsia, December 5, Friday) — ‘Solar Technologies for Buildings’ by Ursula Eicker provides an overview solar technologies relevant to the built environment, including solar thermal energy for heating and cooling, passive solar energy for daylighting and heating supply, and photovoltaics for electricity production. The book provides practical examples and calculations that will enable component and (more…)