French energy giant Total officially opened its regional headquarters at Frasers Tower yesterday. The Cecil Street office, which occupies six floors and houses around 500 employees, will be its base for managing its business across the Asia-Pacific region.

KrisEnergy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, has started the development of facilities for a wellhead platform off Cambodia.

Myanmar is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, and is grossly unprepared to deal with the consequences, warns historian Thant Myint-U. The author and conservationist was in the United States recently to speak on his latest book, The Hidden History Of Burma, which examines race, capitalism […]

YANGON- Under Japanese sponsorship ,Myanmar will be carrying out preservation of water waste and to generate energy from rubbish in Yangon, says Yangon Mayor Maung Maung Soe at the press conference held in Yangon City Hall yesterday.

The world’s most polluting companies could be sued for their contributions to global warming, a major human rights inquiry has found in what has been described as a “landmark victory for climate justice”. The head of a Philippines Commission on Human Rights panel, which has been investigating climate change for three years, revealed its conclusions […]

PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has suggested tapping the potential of using “waste” from oil palm to generate electricity as a cleaner alternative to fuels like coal. MPOB director-general Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir said oil palm biomass, including empty fruit bunches, mesocarps fibres and kernel shells which are by-products from the oil extraction […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): Langkawi’s electric system, now fully automated, will be further enhanced through the installation of a 26.5km submarine cable that will deliver energy from the National Grid to the resort island. Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) chief grid officer Datuk Ir Husaini Husin said the effort to expand the 132 kilovolt (kV) submarine […]

AT THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Informal Senior Officials’ Meeting in Langkawi, senior officials deliberated the forum’s policy agenda for the incoming year, marked by strategies that emphasize inclusion as much as growth. “APEC 2020 will focus on redefining the role of trade and investment from one that is solely for wealth creation to one […]

LYNAS Corp Ltd (Lynas) has selected Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, as the location for its new cracking and leaching plant, marking its first step in establishing a critical minerals hub in the Goldfields region. The cracking and leaching plant will upgrade the Lynas Mt Weld rare earth concentrate which is currently exported to the company’s rare-earth […]

KUCHING: Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) has launched the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) to encourage development and consumption of sustainable energy in the state. It will be awarded to individuals or corporations as proof that they are utilising energy generated from renewable sources such as solar, wind power or hydropower.