KUALA LUMPUR: Aneka Jaringan Holdings Bhd and Samaiden Group Bhd have entered into a joint-venture (JV) agreement to tap into Indonesia’s energy market. Samaiden said the JV would create new revenue streams for both companies via engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and power plants in Indonesia.

Onshore natural gas delivery from Myanmar to Thailand has been suspended after a leak in the pipeline was discovered in Dawei on the Myanmar side on Monday. Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), which jointly drills and delivers gas under the project, confirmed the leakage and temporary suspension in a statement.

French energy major TotalEnergies has ‘definitively’ withdrawn from Myanmar, citing the deteriorating human rights situation in the country caused by last year’s military coup. In January this year, the French firm announced its decision to exit from the Yadana field and from the associated pipeline firm Moattama Gas Transportation Company (MGTC) in Myanmar, without seeking any financial […]

Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) between Rosatom and Myanmar’s Ministry of Science and Technology cover cooperation in training and skills development in the field of nuclear energy and shaping positive public opinion on nuclear energy in Myanmar.

Petronas, the existing operator of the Yetagun gas project has handed the project over to Gulf Petroleum Myanmar (GPM), according to campaign group Justice for Myanmar.

A junta delegation discussed collaboration concerning nuclear technology with a Russian state-owned atomic energy agency while attending the country’s economic forum late last week, according to military-run media.

Myanmar citizens have invested over Ks.982 billion in Energy sector up to May 2022 and it is 4.31 percent of total national investment according to Directorate of Investment and Company Administration.  

As Myanmar braces for its crippling power and economic crises to intensify, there are fears the military regime will get tough with investors and push ahead with controversial energy projects. Military authorities in March were forced to impose countrywide power cut schedules, according to leaked documents reported by Burmese media Khit Thit. But acute shortages […]

Union Minister for Electric Power and for Energy U Thaung Han received Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Chen Hai in Nay Pyi Taw on May 13. During the call, they discussed the cross-border power lines to develop the electricity and energy sectors of Myanmar, hydropower projects, gas-fired and thermal power plant projects and further cooperation […]

Myanmar’s military regime has cancelled tenders invited under the now-ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) government for 26 solar power projects, and blacklisted the companies for breaching tender regulations. In May 2020, the NLD government invited bids for the construction of 29 ground-mounted solar projects capable of generating a total of 1 gigawatt of power […]