Energy for transport
(Oil)
Royal Group in talks with China, Indonesia on proposed oil pipeline
Cambodian conglomerate the Royal Group is in talks with two foreign state-owned petroleum companies to conduct feasibility studies for an oil pipeline that would run from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh, a government official has confirmed. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and ...
In Arakan State, resource control fuels conflict
In a new report, Arakan Oil Watch has urged Myanmar’s incoming government to amend the Constitution in an effort to quell tensions between the military and the country’s ethnic armed groups. “Breaking the Curse,” released on 22 March by the environmental non-government organization, describes the “decentralization of ...
Cheap oil fuels woe over consumption
Thailand’s energy policymakers have expressed concern that the low oil price is encouraging motorists to be careless with energy consumption. The government is looking at raising the tax on fuel to increase its fund for campaigning for alternative fuels, said Areepong Bhoocha-oom, the Energy Ministry’s permanent-secretary. Keep ...
Vietnam Coast Guard seizes armed Thai ship for oil smuggling
A Thai ship has been caught selling oil illegally to a Vietnamese fishing boat in southwestern waters, the Vietnam Coast Guard said in a statement. V.Lucky with five Thai crewmen was carrying 170,000 liters of diesel and pumping the oil to a Vietnamese fishing boat that ...
