(EnergyAsia, April 23, Wednesday) — Engineering giant Foster Wheeler Ltd said its UK-headquartered subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, has been awarded a contract by the Bahrain National Gas Company (BSC) (BANAGAS) to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the revamp and expansion of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) facilities in Bahrain. The expansion (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 23, Wednesday) — ‘Cogeneration Asia 2008’ will be held at the Plaza Athenee Bangkok Hotel in Thailand from June 26 to 27. Cogeneration offers end users one of the best possible solutions to deal with rising fuel prices, increasing amounts of greenhouse gases and threats of depleting energy sources. The benefits of combined (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 22, Tuesday) — The book contains 30 articles that examine new supplies including unconventional sources of gas, hydrates and coal-bed methane, Nabucco and Nord Stream pipelines as well as LNG, LPG and gas-to-liquids. The book which includes world gas reserves and production statistics and a global gas map also analyses the likely demand (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 21, Monday) —- ‘Basin Analysis Asia 2008’ will be held at Hotel Imperial Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from May 12 to 13. The conference aims to provide a deeper understanding of the development of hydrocarbon reserves.   Delegates will learn about reservoirs developments through a case study, the usefulness of stratigraphic trap risk (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 21, Monday) — NYSE-listed AES Corporation said it has completed the $930 million purchase and transfer of assets of the 660 MW Masinloc coal-fired thermal power plant on Luzon Island in the Philippines. AES and its eight percent minority partner International Finance Corporation (IFC) paid the full purchase price upfront to complete the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 21, Monday) — The recently released ‘World Energy Atlas 2007’, a great source of cartographic information for the oil and gas industry, containing 139 mapping plates over 280 colour pages. The Atlas includes details of major oil and gas fields and pipelines, deepwater fields, oil refineries, underground gas storage and processing facilities, LNG (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 18, Friday) — The ‘5th MidEast Upstream 2008’ conference will be held at the Madinat Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai from May 27 to 28.The conference follows the success of last year’s event which featured presentations from 30 leading experts who addressed more than 150 participants from the world that included representatives from government (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 18, Friday) — The ‘3rd Renewable Energy Finance Forum China’ will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing, China from May 14 to 15.As China evolves beyond a speculative venture into a well established investment opportunity, revisions to the renewable energy promotion law are being drafted to encourage the growth of (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 18, Friday) — ISO said it has approved the creation of a project committee mandated to develop an international standard on energy management.The standard will provide all types of organisations and companies a practical and widely recognised approach to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve their environmental performance by addressing both the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 17, Thursday) — World renowned energy publisher Petroleum Economist has released three books: Encyclopedia of LNG, LNG – A Glossary of Terms and Fundamentals of Gas to Liquids. For more information on these books, please contact Admin@EnergyAsia.com. Encyclopedia of LNG The liquefied natural gas business has embarked on a sustained period of unparalleled (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 17, Thursday) — ‘China Nickel 2008’ will be held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Shanghai, China from May 28 to 29. As China continues to grow, its demand for metal has escalated and despite the fall in nickel price, the country’s demand continues to soar with consumption rising six-fold since 2000. ‘China (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 16, Wednesday) — Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries said subsidiary Sembcorp Gas has signed an agreement to import 90 billion British thermal units (Btu) per day of natural gas from Indonesia.Sembcorp Gas signed the conditional US$5.5 billion agreement with producers Premier Oil, KUFPEC, Hess and Petronas for the supply and delivery of natural gas piped (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 14, Monday) — Population growth and globalisation has helped boost energy use throughout the world. As demand for oil and gas continues to escalate, the world’s energy thirst has to be met through traditional and unconventional sources. Experience shows that price volatility and alternating boom and bust cycles are harmful to both the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 15, 2008, Tuesday) — With oil, gas and coal prices at record levels, conference organiser Informa IBC Asia is looking at a busy year ahead. On March 24, two of the group’s senior executives sat down with EnergyAsia for a filmed interview giving an overview of their plans ahead. Rebecca Wolfe, who looks (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 15, Tuesday) — EnergyAsia has released filmed interviews with four participants at the Third Annual ‘World Renewable Energy Summit’ (WRES) at the JW Marriot hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from March 27 to 28. The filmed interviews with Dr Wolfgang Palz, Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, Ms Nguyen Thanh Phat (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 14, Monday) — EnergyAsia’s filmed interviews with Rotary Engineering, Woodside, Australian High Commission and Shell Global Solutions on the state of the energy industry on www.EnergyAsia.com. Rotary Engineering chairman and managing director Chia Kim Piow shares his thoughts on the oil and gas industry in the face of rising costs, the global competiton (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 14, Monday) — The ‘Middle East Petrochemicals 2008’ conference will be held at the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel from June 15 to 17. More than 40% of the global petrochemical capacity will be built in the Middle East by 2011. This would make the region the petrochemicals hub of the world offering the industry (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 14, Monday) — The McCloskey Group, a leading energy market news and information services company and the global leader in coal market news and price reporting, has launched a new publication entitled ‘McCloskey’s NuclearBusiness’. As nuclear power is once again viewed as a likely leading provider of future global energy needs, there is (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 11, Friday) — Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) said it is launching the world’s first clearing service for over-the-counter benzene swaps to serve growing demand for credit risk mitigation in the petrochemical market. SGX AsiaClear will launch the service on May 5. Including this new product, SGX will have 13 energy contracts. The size (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 10, Thursday) — ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc, a subsidiary of the US major, said it and Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas, will be extending their work together under a new 25-year production sharing contract to ensure sustainable energy supplies for the country. The contract includes commitments to implement significant enhanced oil (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 8, Tuesday) — Developing Asian economies will register solid growth in 2008 despite a coincident slowdown in major industrial economies, surging food and fuel prices and a simmering credit crisis in the US, said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) says in a new major report. Its flagship annual publication, Asian Development Outlook 2008 (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 7, Monday) — Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation are planning to conduct a joint biofuels demonstration flight in the first half of 2009 to identify sustainable fuel solutions for the aviation industry. Continental is the first major US carrier to announce plans to highlight technological advancements in sustainable biofuels that can help (more…)

By Sophie Nappert * Background (EnergyAsia, April 7, Monday) — The policies adopted by the Russian Federation in dealing with its energy resources, notably in its gas pricing dispute with Ukraine and, more recently, its draft law on foreign investment in strategic industries , are the subject of worldwide publicity and comment. Russia has signed (more…)

(EnergyAsia, April 4, Friday) — The Lubrizol Corporation has launched a 10-year phased investment plan to upgrade and increase global capacity in its additive business. This will be achieved through an extensive debottlenecking program at its existing facilities and a greenfield investment in China.To meet the evolving demands of the global lubricant and fuel additives (more…)