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China Industry Sector Growth and Usage Energy Future
Growth of sector industry in China, the biggest in world, so that China hardly requires available of energy to support growth of sector industry. To fulfill availibility of energy inside the country, Government China does some things, for example by raw material import energy coal and source of other energy.
Australia’s Plans Natural Gas Exploration, Booming $15billion a Year LNG Export Industry
THE rapid multi-billion-dollar expansion of Australia’s second-biggest commodity export, liquefied natural gas, could stall if new investors are forced to comply with an emissions trading scheme from 2010.
The warning comes as major emitters continue to lobby for a regulated and cautious start to emissions trading in Australia, saying the credibility of the scheme could be [...]
Hassan on Petronas’ future plans
Petronas president Tan Sri Hassan Marican, in a separate interview with Azam Aris and Surin Murugiah from The Edge Financial Daily after announcing its financial results for the year ended March 31, 2007, provides an insight into the company’s operations and future plans. Here are excerpts of the interview:
FD: Another record profit year for Petronas. [...]
Malaysian, Indonesian and Saudi Arabian firms sign agreements for construction of a pipeline
Malaysian, Indonesian and Saudi Arabian firms on Monday signed agreements for construction of a pipeline that aims to divert 20 percent of oil flowing through the strategic Malacca Strait, the project owner said.
Trans-Peninsula Petroleum, the owner and promoter of the project, said it signed separate memoranda of understanding with Bakrie and Brothers of Indonesia to [...]
Uganda: Museveni to Woo Commonwealth Investors
INDUSTRIALISED Commonwealth countries should invest in their low developed counterparts to achieve development, President Yoweri Museveni has suggested.
“I will introduce a proposal during CHOGM in November to see how we can have a mechanism in which companies from the United Kingdom and Malaysia can invest in less developed member countries and help them transform. That’s [...]
Proposed $14 Billion Oil Pipeline Across Malaysia Could Cut Costs, Avoid Piracy Risks
A proposed oil pipeline project to pump oil across northern Malaysia — bypassing the Malacca Strait — could lower transportation costs and avoid risks of pirate attacks on tankers, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said Tuesday.
The proposed 50 billion ringgit (US$14.2 billion; euro10.6 billion) project would involve building a 320-kilometer (200-mile) pipeline across northern Malaysia, [...]
Other nations begin to eye coal option
We recently used this space to refute a story that led us to believe the use of coal was doomed if it couldn’t be cleaned up.
Of course, the clean burning coal issue is important to those of us in the Permian Basin as we try to land the FutureGen project and forge a new [...]
Oil from palms: scientists weigh the downside
Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared.
Now, it’s increasingly seen as an example of how well-meaning efforts to limit climate-changing carbon emissions may backfire.
Palm oil’s luster fades on biofuel scene
Only a few years ago, oil from palm trees was viewed as an ideal biofuel: a cheap, renewable alternative to petroleum that would fight global warming. Energy companies began converting generators and production soared.
Now, it’s increasingly seen as an example of how well-meaning efforts to limit climate-changing carbon emissions may backfire.
