Non-renewable energy production

Singapore-listed oil and gas firm KrisEnergy Ltd is moving closer to finalising its deal with the Cambodian government that will pave the way for extraction from the Block A offshore oil field once negotiations over a technical strategy and fiscal regime have been finalised. Tanya Pang, ...

Malaysia’s Southeast Asia-focused oil and gas group Mitra Energy has reached a sales and purchase agreement with Japan’s Teikoku Oil to acquire a 30 per cent interest in Vietnam’s oilfields in the Nam Con Son basin. Meanwhile, Songkla Canning, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thai Union ...

The largest environmental story to break this month has been The New York Times‘ exposé of the Mississippi-based Kemper Project’s mismanagement, delays, inflated costs, and alleged fraud, making a mockery of the NCPO’s plans to convert Thailand from natural gas to ‘clean coal’. The Thailand Power ...

There would be more auctions of shares from oil and gas companies in the second half of 2016 under the directives of the government on equitisation of state-owned firms. On July 15, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung told the first half meeting of the PetroVietnam ...

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand has confirmed it will complete six new coal-fired power plants by 2025 and boost its share of the power supply market to 50% from 37%. The six new coal-fired plants are expected to have a combined capacity of 4,390 ...

Thailand could face a power shortage in 2020 and 2021 if newcomers win the upcoming petroleum auctions and current gas producers cut their investments prior to the handover, a senior energy official has warned. Prasert Sinsukprasert, deputy director-general of the Energy Policy and Planning Office, told ...

Authorities in Mon State for the first time visited a Thai cement factory where a coal power plant was built without informing locals or authorities, said local sources. The Mawlamyine Cement Limited factory officers said that they intended to use coal power if the government could ...

Nearly half of a massive 700-megawatt coal-fired power plant with the $383 million joint venture project that will fuel the country’s biggest industrial park and feed the national grid is set to be completed by the end of the year, according to officials at the Ministry ...

Canadian mining firm Angkor Gold has entered into a joint exploration agreement with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp to explore Angkor’s Oyadao South licence in Ratanakkiri province, the company said in a press release on 14 June.Keep reading ...

Nguyen Ngoc Toan – Deputy Chief of the Management Board of Nhon Hoi Economic Zone – said local officials had met with Thailand’s PTT Group on the progress of the Nhon Hoi (Victory) petrochemical project. Binh Dinh officials and the investors discussed with representatives of the ...