(EnergyAsia, September 13 2012, Thursday) — The following is an edited version of the speech by Teo Eng Cheong, chief executive of IE Singapore (IES), the country’s trade department, at the 4th Asia Pacific Summit of the World LNG Series held this week. IES is the government agency responsible for promoting Singapore’s trade as well (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 13 2012, Thursday) — The following is an edited version of a comment by consultant EnerData on the recent massive power blackout in India. India’s Black Tuesday of July 31 marked the greatest power outage in history: the blackout occurred in 20 of the country’s 28 states and affected three of its five (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 13 2012, Thursday) — BHP Billiton said its equal joint-venture operation with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp would cease production at its Gregory open-cut coal mine near Emerald in Queensland state from October 10. BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) made the decision following a continuing operational review of the Gregory Crinum operations, which determined that (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 12 2012, Wednesday) — Russian mining and metals company Mechel OAO said it signed two agreements at last week’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the seaport of Vladivostok. The NYSE-listed company has agreed to supply coal to Russia’s RAO Energy Systems of East, and to cooperate with South Korea’s STX Group (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 12 2012, Wednesday) — Dubai consumed more electricity than it produced in the second quarter compared with the same period last year. According to utilities monopoly Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), the emirate’s peak electricity consumption grew 3.8% to 6,165 MW while production rose by 3% to 9,605 Gwh. The agency did (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 12 2012, Wednesday) — Australian science agency CSIRO has issued a statement rejecting the claim made in a television commercial that ‘CSIRO [and government studies] have shown that groundwater is safe with coal seam gas.” CSIRO said that it has never made such a statement nor do the results of its research support (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 11 2012, Tuesday) — Prophecy Coal Corp, a Canadian company focused on coal and power projects in Mongolia, said wholly-owned subsidiary Prophecy Power Generation LLC has submitted its power purchase agreement proposal to the Mongolian government. The proposed agreement details the terms under which Prophecy Power would be prepared to supply power to (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — Bunker fuel spilled into the sea off Singapore’s Jurong Island at about 2 pm yesterday (September 9) following a collision between two vessels. Less than 60 metric tonnes of bunker fuel leaked from the tank of a South Korean-registered liquefied petroleum gas carrier, DL Salvia, after it collided with (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — Foster Wheeler AG said it has been awarded a contract by Shell Global Solutions International B.V. to develop a basic engineering package (BEP) for a world-scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) facility at Ras Laffan in Qatar. Foster Wheeler did not reveal the value of the contract that was secured by (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 10 2012, Monday) — South Korean engineering firm Daelim said it has secured a US$345 million contract to build a coal-fired power plant in the Mekong River Delta for a subsidiary of state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). Daelim plans to deliver the 330MW unit of the O-Mon Thermal Power Plant to Can Tho (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 7 2012) — Royal Dutch Shell has signed to become the first customer to use a pioneering terminal now under construction in the Netherlands to store, break-bulk and distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG). The terminal at the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam port is being developed by gas infrastructure company NV Nederlandse Gasunie and liquid (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 7 2012, Friday) — Asia’s three largest economies share a common threat from increasingly insufficient and unreliable domestic power supplies to meet demand growth. For now, Japan and India, the region’s second and third largest economies, are the most threatened as companies have been forced to reduce or shut down operations with the (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 6 2012, Thursday) — Shell said it and its partners will invest a total of C$1.3 billion to build the world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation located in Canada’s Alberta province. (US$1=C$0.99). The Quest project will be built on behalf of the Athabasca oil sands project (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 6 2012, Thursday) — Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard is mocking those predicting the top of the mining boom by citing a well-worn Mark Twain quote in response to false rumours that he had died. “Reports of the mining boom’s death have been exaggerated,” Ms Gillard told the 8th Australian Association of Mining (more…)

(EnergyAsia, September 5 2012, Wednesday) — Ship engine exhaust emissions make up more than a quarter of nitrogen oxide emissions generated in Australia, according to a recently-published study by CSIRO and the Australian Maritime College in Launceston. Nitrogen oxide is a non-greenhouse gas, unlike similarly named nitrous oxide. The remainder comes from road and air (more…)