July 20, 2016 | Malaysia
Finland-based technology provider Valmet will deliver automation technology to Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd’s (SESB) Patau-Patau power plant on the island of Labuan, Malaysia. The plant`s existing automation system will be replaced...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR)
Sunlabob Renewable Energy has completed the construction and commissioning of a 90 kWp roof-mounted solar PV system in Vientiane, Laos. The project is the first-ever commercial grid-connected solar system in Laos. The system has...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR)
Construction work on the Yuxi-Boten railway tunnel linking China and Laos was started on June 22, 2016. The cross-border tunnel is 9.68 km long, of which 7.17 km lies in China and 2.51 km in Laos. The planned construction period...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR)
Thailand is planning to buy electricity from the Sekong-5 hydropower plant (HPP) in Laos. The Sekong-5 plant in Laos is being implemented by LLC Inter RAO Engineering. The Thailand government has tentatively confirmed its...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR)
Lao’s state-owned power company Electricite du Laos (EDL) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth $416.5 million with Thailand’s SCI Electric Public Company Limited. The scope of the work...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
Nokia has inked a deal with the nationwide Indonesian infrastructure provider FiberStar for the deployment of a new dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone network to accommodate bandwidth requirements of the...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
Telecommunication provider XL Axiata has closed an agreement to sell 2,500 units of its telecommunication towers for Rp 3.57 trillion ($267.2 million) to Profesional Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Protelindo). According to the...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
State-owned Hutama Karya expects the government to secure Rp 11.3 trillion ($858 million) from the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to fund its trans-Sumatra toll road project. The funding will be used...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
French renewable energy company Akuo Energy has inked an MoU with state-owned Perusahaan Daerah Provinsi Bali for the construction of 100 MW of photovoltaic (PV) power plants on the Indonesian island of Bali. As part of the...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
London-based oil and gas company BP (formerly known as British Petroleum) has submitted its final investment development decision to expand the Tangguh LNG facility (the Train 3 project) in West Papua, Indonesia. Construction is...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
JBIC is providing around JPY 120 billion for financing an Indonesian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project being developed by a Japanese consortium. The financial institution inked a contract with a JV of Mitsubishi Corporation,...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
P LN has announced plans to take over the construction of a 2,000 MW coal-fired power plant, Jawa 5, in Serang, Banten. PLN will build the power plant itself after the cancellation of the tender for the project. The project,...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company, PLN is likely to finish the work on the 275 kV line associated with the Java-Sumatra interconnection project by 2017. The work on the 500 kV line associated with the interconnection...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
Korea Gas (Kogas) and Indonesia’s Perusahaan Daerah Pertambangan dan Energi (PDPDE) have signed an MoU for the construction of two gas pipelines for $600 million. As per the MoU, Kogas will build, own and operate the 363 km long...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
British consultancy company Amec Foster Wheeler has won the engineering and project management services contract to conduct the basic engineering design study for the upgrade of the Cilacap refinery in Central Java. The contract...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
Indonesia’s state energy company PT Pertamina and Russia’s Rosneft have signed a cooperation agreement to construct a new oil refinery at Tuban, East Java. The two companies may invest $12 billion to $13 billion in the refinery...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Indonesia
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed to provide $2.05 billion for the construction of a 2 GW coal-fired power plant in Batang Regency, Central Java. The plant will be built and operated by Bhimasena...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Cambodia
Reportedly, Vietnam’s Viettel is considering selling its stake in Cambodia’s telecom firm Metfone to raise capital for its other global ventures. Viettel would offer no more than 49 per cent of Metfone’s operations, leaving the...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Cambodia
The China Railway 16th Bureau Group has completed the pre-feasibility study of the 50 km long Phnom Penh southern railway line that will link the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port with Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces. The company...
Read MoreJuly 20, 2016 | Cambodia
Thailand-based power producers Sahacogen (Chonburi) Pcl and Saha Patthana Inter Holding Pcl have entered into a joint venture (JV) to build biomass power plants in Cambodia. The details of the power purchase agreement (PPA) with...
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