Gas will not flow yet from the Malampaya field, as the facility’s preventive maintenance shutdown has been extended for additional three days because of delayed repair works at its onshore platform’s flare tip. As sounded off by Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the naturally occurring...
The Department of Energy (DOE) affirmed yesterday that ‘gas production decline’ at the Malampaya field will persist next year and until the project’s end of service contract in 2024. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi specified that gas restriction had been lingering from January 2020 to...
The Unit 2 of the 97-megawatt Avion power generating facility of Prime Meridian Powergen Corporation (PMPC) is now back on commercial operation, its parent firm First Gen Corporation has announced. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the Lopez firm indicated that the plant was...
‘Red flag’ is being raised anew by Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian on the financial capacity of cash-strapped Udenna Corporation to acquire the 45 percent stake of Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) in the multi-billion Malampaya gas-to-power venture. The...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is planning to undertake competitive selection process (CSP) for a power supply agreement (PSA) that will replace the capacity of First Gen Corporation if its electricity generation will be continuously crippled by Malampaya gas field’s output...
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility of Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company Inc. (AG&P) will supply the fuel needs for electricity generation of the 1,200-megawatt Ilijan gas-fired power facility starting next year, according to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oil Industry...
Luzon grid will gain additional capacity following the commercial operation of the 150-megawatt Ingrid diesel-fired power plant, a joint venture of AC Energy Corporation (ACEN) of the Ayala group and Axia Power Holdings Philippines Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese firm Marubeni Corporation....
The recurring gas restriction dilemma of the Malampaya field significantly accounted for the higher electric bills paid for by the customers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) this year. Meralco said that of the aggregate P1.04 per kilowatt hour (kWh) rate hikes implemented in series this year, about...
The Department of Energy (DoE) will be legally accountable if it will push through with the targeted ‘midnight deal’ for the license extension of the Malampaya gas field project, that in the process will primarily benefit Malampaya Energy XP Pte Ltd, a company of Davao businessman Dennis Uy. In...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has raised alarm over the possibility that the government is entering into a midnight deal to extend the service contract of the Malampaya project with the gas field operator Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) by finalizing the transfer of its participating...
The operator of the Malampaya gas field will need to drill one well next year, but that will not be a precondition for license extension of the facility’s service contract (SC) 38. A document from the Department of Energy (DOE) furnished to the media stated that the SC 38 consortium currently led...
A more generous 70:30 royalty sharing in favor of the government is coming forth as the tenor in negotiations on the proposed license extension for the Malampaya gas field project, which is due for turnover by yearend to buyer Malampaya Energy XP Pte Ltd of Davao businessman Dennis Uy. The...
