Key oil and gas investors from across Asia will gather in Singapore this September to grow their portfolios during the 2nd Oil & Gas Investor Summit Asia. With more than half the world’s population residing in Asia, demand for power surpasses what the rest of the world requires to support its robust economy. Asia is […]
Continue ReadingFoster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. (Samsung) for a waste heat recovery unit for PTT Public Company Limited’s (PTT) Power Generation and Heat Recovery project at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Complex in Thailand. Samsung is […]
Continue ReadingA seminar on a new electrical generating plant planned for Krabi attracted 600 people on Saturday (July 28), but villagers most likely to be affected by the plant have asked for more information relating to health and pollution impacts. The new 800-megawatt Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) facility is planned in connection with the […]
Continue ReadingVisit http://www.cleanenergyexpoasia.com for further information With its abundance of natural resources, governments across Asia are putting in place strategies to decrease reliance on fossil fuel and promote the development of clean energy sources. Despite the uncertainty over economic growth and policy priorities in developed economies, global new investment in renewables rose 17 percent to a […]
Continue ReadingThe move comes amid discussions on whether it will maintain operations in Ayutthaya’s flood-prone Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate. James Phillips, the managing director of Ecco (Thailand), said the new factory in Saraburi is scheduled to be completed in September 2013. The 55-rai plot in Hemaraj Industrial Estate is 5.5 metres above sea level and […]
Continue ReadingThe oil and gas industry has had the highest number of prosecutions for bribery in the UK compared to any other sector in recent years. Five (almost 20%) of the 26 cases of bribery and graft prosecuted since 2008 were in the oil and gas sector. Other top offending sectors were construction, medical goods and insurance […]
Continue ReadingParliament will invite more bidders to vie for the contract to construct the new building in the Kiakkai area for a budget of 12 billion baht, he said. The project has so far attracted only four bidders _ Italian-Thai Development Plc, Syntec Construction Plc, Power Line Engineering Plc and Sino-Thai Engineering & Construction Plc. Construction […]
Continue ReadingGovernment-led consortium will join race to participate in Thailand’s water management project A government-led consortium plans to jump into an international bidding war to participate in a large-scale water management project in Thailand, which Seoul officials say could become the first case of exporting Korea’s own four-river restoration project. The Ministry of Land, Transportation and […]
Continue ReadingThailand’s largest energy firm, PTT Pcl, said on Tuesday it planned to invest US$ 2-3 billion in a Burmese oil refinery, coal mines and a power plant, as part of its drive to expand in Southeast Asia. Nattachat Charuchinda, the chief operating officer for PTT’s petroleum business, told reporters in Bangkok the company planned to set […]
Continue ReadingLeading Thai companies are ready to outlay more than Bt28.5 billion setting up businesses in Myanmar following a meeting with President Thein Sein in Bangkok yesterday, amid expectations that a Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), Thailand’s biggest agro-industrial conglomerate, is set to invest US$550 million or Bt16.53 billion in Myanmar within the next three years. CP […]
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