Thailand’s Oil Giant Is Going on a Green Spending Spree
Thailand’s oil giant, whose sales account for about 10% of the nation’s economic output, is suddenly spending billions of dollars on electric-vehicle and renewable-energy companies and tilting its traditional businesses toward chemicals and plastics.
SOEs pour B100bn into key projects
State enterprises in the first half of the year invested more than 100 billion baht in energy infrastructure projects, under the government’s economic stimulus policy.
Thai PTTEP yet to reach agreement with Chevron on access to Erawan gas field
BANGKOK, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Thai oil and gas company PTT Exploration and Production Pcl (PTTEP) (PTTEP.BK) said on Thursday it has not yet been able to reach agreement with Chevron (CVX.N) about accessing the Erawan gas field in the Gulf of Thailand before it takes over the concession from the U.S. oil major next […]
PP Power pioneers use of napier grass
Plasma Purity Power Co (PP Power), a biogas power plant developer and operator, has announced it will be the first company in Thailand to be able to produce biogas purely from napier grass for electricity generation.
Sirindhorn Dam floating hybrid project completed
The B.Grimm Power-Energy China consortium has completed work on its hydro-floating solar hybrid project at Sirindhorn Dam for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), considered the largest of its kind in the world.
Egat to import more electricity from Laos
State-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plans to import an additional 1,200 megawatts of electricity from hydroelectric power plants in Laos under a long-term purchase contract.
PTT LNG Trading in the spotlight: Moving Forward to Energy Transition
LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is natural gas in liquid form for convenient long-distance transportation without a natural gas pipeline. It is produced from natural gas that contains methane as a main component, separated from other contaminants and elements such as carbon dioxide, mercury and sulphur. When reduced to -160°C the gas turns into liquid at […]
GPSC introduces the first ASEAN-made G-Cell battery innovation using SemiSolid technology
Leading with a vision to channel innovative energy into future power, Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has become the first ASEAN country to introduce an energy storage factory using SemiSolid technology. Located in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong Province, the new factory makes possible an annual power production capacity of 30 […]
