Turkey-based 232MW rental power ship ‘Kaya Bey’ docked at Karachi Port Trust (KPT) in 2010. RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP Cambodia succeeded in negotiations to lease a 200MW Turkish power ship to meet electricity demands in Phnom Penh, amid a nearly 400MW electricity shortage nationwide, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday. Speaking at the 18th Government-Private Sector […]

HOUSTON, Texas – The United States (US) government is offering help to countries in the Southeast Asian region – primarily those wanting to extract oil and gas resources within their exclusive economic zones but investment flows are being impeded by diplomatic skirmish with Asian super power China. In his keynote address at the CERAWeek here, […]

TAGUIG CITY, Mar. 16 — The Philippines is slated to hold two important regional energy industry conferences for the next two years. Led by the Department of Energy (DOE) in cooperation with the Department of Tourism and other local energy industry stakeholders, the country will host two biennial events of the Association of Electricity Supply […]

The forum took place in South Africa’s capital Pretoria on March 14 and 15 under the co-chair of Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Cuong and South African Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Reginah Mhaule. At the forum, Vietnamese and South African ministries and sectors reviewed bilateral cooperation since their third meeting, which […]

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Indonesian Government has welcomed cooperation between Oman’s Overseas Oil and Gas (OOG) and Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina to build a new oil refinery in Bontang, East Kalimantan, with an investment worth US$10 billion. Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno LP Marsudi and her visiting Oman counterpart, Yusuf bin […]

Japan’s Tokyo Gas and the Philippines utility First Gen have received approval to build a $10 billion LNG receiving terminal in the island nation, Kallanish Energy learns. The facility will be located in First Gen’s LNG complex in Batangas Province, south of Manila. It is the first time the Japanese gas company is investing in infrastructure […]

ISRAELI firm Ratio Petroleum Ltd. wants to partner with Philippine National Oil Company-Explo-ration Corp. (PNOC-EC) to jointly explore possible petroleum reserves in the east Palawan basin. Ratio Petroleum was awarded Service Contract (SC) No. 76 covering Area 4 of Eastern Palawan, as part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) fifth Philippine Energy Contracting Round (PECR), launched in May […]

Jakarta (ANTARA News) – The US and Japanese Embassies in Jakarta collaborated with Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry to conduct the first trilateral workshop on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to promote energy partnerships in a free, open Indo-Pacific. The trilateral workshop on LNG was held in Jakarta on Tuesday and opened by President Director […]

JAKARTA — Indonesian state-owned oil and gas group Pertamina will increase cooperation with Malaysian counterpart Petroliam Nasional, or Petronas, in an agreement signed on Tuesday that ranges from exploration to renewable power. The comprehensive deal comes as demand for oil and gas is expected to remain high in Southeast Asia. Both parties will “explore the possibilities of cooperation […]

PRESIDENT Duterte is mulling over how to move forward with the country’s 29 deals with China, especially the country’s agreement on energy cooperation in oil and gas development in the West Philippine Sea. He has asked Beijing to “give me a week” to study the matter. Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua and the President had a […]