(EnergyAsia, June 27, Friday) — Australia has entered its biggest ever era of petroleum exploration as energy prices and demands for liquid natural gas escalate. “We are in a unique position to reap enormous rewards from our resources,” says APPEA CEO Belinda Robinson, who will chair the first day of SEAAOC, northern Australia’s largest and (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 27, Friday) — ‘Indonesia Power Conference 2008’ will be held at the Hotel Mulia Senayan in Jakarta, Indonesia from August 27 to 28. The conference will feature a keynote address from Indonesia’s director general for electricity and energy utilisation in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Indonesia has a large base of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 27, Friday) — ‘Fuel Oil and Bunker Trading’, an international oil supply and trading seminar, will be held in Singapore from July 24 to 25. The course aims to provide a clear understanding of the oil markets including oil refining economics and product quality, price structure, supply, trading and transportation fundamentals. Issues related (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 26, Thursday) — ‘Petrochemicals in Nontechnical Language’ is an authoritative book that has been re-written and expanded to include extra chapters on methyl tertiary butyl ether and higher alcohols. Packed with diagrams and tables, the third edition of this book will provide a clear and comprehensive primer for anyone seeking to understand the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 26, Thursday) — ‘Oil Refineries in the 21st Century: Energy Efficient, Cost Effective, Environmentally Benign’ is a practical guide for engineers, managers and consultants involved in the refining industry. The book provides a detailed approach to the methodology, information and criteria necessary for analysing energy use, economics and the environmental impact of refineries (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 26, Thursday) — ‘Renewables-Based Technology: Sustainability Assessment’, the first book in the ‘Wiley Renewable Resources’ series, covers a range of sustainability assessment methods and their uses. Sustainability is a key driving force for industries in the energy, chemical, food, packaging, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors. These days, company reports incorporate quantitative sustainability indicators. This (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 25, Wednesday) — The ‘National Photovoltaic Conference 2008 (NPVC 2008)’ will be held at the Putrajaya Marriott Hotel south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 14. The conference, in line with the national objective of promoting the use of solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels, will provide a platform for policy (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 24, Tuesday) — The ‘15th Africa Upstream’ will be held at the Imax Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa from October 8 to 10. More than 70 officials and executives from government agencies, state oil companies and private companies will be speaking at the region’s largest exploration and production event. ‘15th Africa Upstream’ (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 24, Tuesday) — ‘Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development’ is a collection of papers from a conference held at the University of Liverpool in June 2002. Wiley has published them as a book to reflect the interchange of ideas on the theory, technology, tools and methodology on what constitutes sustainable development. It discussed (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 24, Tuesday) — ‘Tanker Ownership, Chartering and Operations’, a course offered by the Oxford Princeton Programme, will be held in Singapore from October 8 to 10. The course, presented in association with maritime economics and business consulting firm Richardson Lawrie Associates, will cover the crude oil, petroleum products, chemicals and gas transportation sectors. (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 23, Monday) — Oiltanking Singapore Limited has announced that it will be constructing another 120,000 cubic metres of storage capacity for clean oil products on Singapore’s oil, gas and chemicals hub on Jurong Island. The new tanks, to be added to the company’s terminal located along Jurong Island Highway by mid-2009, will boost (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 23, Monday) — Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of India’s Wipro Limited, said it has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems.  Wipro’s green IT initiatives extend from energy efficient data centres to eco-friendly product engineering designs and PC (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 20, Friday) — Canada-based Red Hill Energy Inc said it has engaged Australia-based consulting and engineering firm Minarco-MineConsult (MMC) to prepare a comprehensive pre-feasibility study on its fully-owned Ulaan Ovoo coal project in northern Mongolia. The study will complement earlier analysis produced by US-based Behre Dolbear Inc’s scoping study and several transportation and (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 20, Friday) — KIC Group-controlled Asia Petroleum Hub Sdn Bhd (APH) last week officially launched its new RM50 million fabrication and supply base in the southern Malaysian state of Johor. The base is designed to support the construction of APH’s RM1.5 billion petroleum hub on the nearby 100-acre reclaimed island in Tanjung Bin (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 20, Friday) — Global Petroleum Show (GPS) 2008 set a record breaking attendance with nearly 62,000 registered attendees, making it the most attended GPS in the show’s 40-year history. About 100 countries were represented at the Calgary event in Canada’s Alberta province which attracted more than 2,000 exhibiting companies. The year’s GPS launched (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 19, Thursday) — CSIRO, Australia’s leading science agency, said its newly commissioned flow loop facility will help researchersfind solutions to predict and control gas hydrates formation in offshore oil and gas production pipelines. The only one of its kind in Australia, the facility can simulate gas-liquid flows at high pressures and low temperatures (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 18, Wednesday) — Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities provider, has reached an agreement with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to manage and operate the Chemical Process Technology Centre (CPTC). Owned by the EDB, CPTC is a world-class technical training centre located on Jurong Island, Singapore’s oil and gas hub. CPTC (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 18, Wednesday) — The following is an excerpt of the interview conducted by Australian conference organiser IIR. Mr Henderson will open the South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference (SEAOOC) in Darwin, Australia on July 16 to 18. The interview can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8klXD6-_E. 1. With crude oil passing $130 a barrel, natural (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 16, Monday) — Consultant Purvin & Gertz has announced the release of its ‘Global LNG Outlook’, a new service providing analysis on the short-term world LNG market. The cornerstone of the service is a quarterly publication that will assess the impact of changing LNG market fundamentals and provide an in-depth perspective of the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 11, Wednesday) — Two green lobbies have charged that US refiners will produce much more greenhouse gases processing Canada’s oilsands than if they used ‘traditional’ crude oil. The Washington DC-based Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Toronto-headquartered Environmental Defence Canada (EDC) said the emissions production increase would be the equivalent of 16 new refineries (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 11, Wednesday) — An affiliate of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company said it has signed US$6 billion worth of financing arrangements for 15 years with a group of banks and financial institutions to finance part of the cost of its new complex in Jubail Industrial City. The (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 10, Tuesday) — Proserv Far East Pte said it has signed a strategic agreement with Malaysian firm Tanjung Offshore Services Sdn Bhd as part of its expansion in the highly active Malaysian oil and gas market. Proserv said it is positioning its abandonment and decommissioning unit to undertake work in removing mature and (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 9, Monday) — The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, said it has formed two new Japan Work Groups as well as a formal relationship with The Green IT Promotion Council. In response to industry and government demand, The Green Grid said (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 9, Monday) — Flowserve Corporation, a leading global provider of fluid motion and control products and services, said it will supply main steam isolation valves for the first two Westinghouse Electric Company AP1000T nuclear power plant projects in China as part of a multi-million dollar (USD) contract. The Flowserve valve is the first (more…)

(EnergyAsia, June 6, Friday) —  ‘Carbon Finance Asia 2008’, an event by Terrapinn, will be held at the Grand Hyatt from October 7 to 10. Under the Kyoto Protocol and other policies to combat climate change, projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases also generate a valuable new commodity. The sale of emission reduction units (more…)