Energy & Mining
PPA repurposing ports to accommodate OSW projects
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), at the urging of the Department of Energy, has started the engineering design and other plans needed to repurpose priority ports into units capable of handling offshore wind energy projects.
Dimalanta suspension exposes electric cooperatives to more expensive power rates
Impaired operations at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) resulting from the suspension of a key official leave a number of electric cooperatives exposed to higher power rates obtained at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM).
First Gen awards LNG contract to Shell
First Gen Corp. has awarded its most recent liquefied natural gas tender notice to Shell Eastern LNG.
Vivant unit divests 32.24 percent take in solar firm Buskowitz Energy to Singapore firm Aurora
Vivant Corp. said Thursday its wholly-owned subsidiary of its unit Vivant Energy Corp. is selling its 32.26 percent stake in Buskowitz Energy Inc., a solar development, engineering, procurement and construction company.
BOC catches shipside fuel transfer, colloquially known as “paihi,” at Navotas Fish Port
The Bureau of Customs on Thursday seized fuel tankers loaded with P20.35 million worth of fuel, for their involvement in alleged illegal fuel transfer, or “paihi” in colloquial language, at the Navotas Fish Port.
