As an aftermath of severe storm Quinta’s devastation, massive swath in 15 provinces groped in the dark due to power outages caused by damages in various power facilities. According to the Department of Energy, the estimated cost of damage to the power facilities of the electric cooperatives (ECs)...
Anchoring it on the ‘right to match’ provision of the joint operating agreement (JOA) under Service Contract (SC) 38, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi indicated that Udenna Corporation of businessman Dennis Uy may likely have an edge in acquiring the 45-percent stake being unloaded by Shell...
To allow the entry of investors in the upstream petroleum sector, primarily China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), President Rodrigo Duterte has already lifted the moratorium on seismic as well as oil and gas drilling activities at the West Philippine Sea (WPS), a disputed territory....
State-run Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) has inked a deal with American firm New Fortress Energy LLC (NFE) for the setting up of liquefied natural gas (LNG) installation in the country. In a statement to the media, the Department of Energy (DOE) qualified that the memorandum of...
With the service contract of the Malampaya gas field expiring in four years, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi sounded off that the next best option for the country is to take the course of liquefied natural gas (LNG) importation. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi In his keynote message at the 9th...
The forthcoming maintenance schedule of the Malampaya gas production facility next month is expected to trigger hikes in the electricity bills that will be dispatched to Filipino consumers around Christmas time. The Malampaya gas field uses an innovative and sustainable deepwater technology for...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will have to shell out additional cash on their electricity budget as the overall rate of the utility firm would be higher by P0.1212 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in their October billing. With the upward adjustment, the rate of Meralco this month will be...
Oil firm Cleanfuel bucked the trend even as most of its competitors have implemented slight upward adjustments in pump prices this week to the tune of P0.10 per liter for gasoline products, and P0.20 per liter for kerosene products. MB file photo. (Mark Balmores) Cleanfuel, which is among the...
Given electricity demand increase in the Luzon grid last month, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is anticipating marginal rate hike to be reflected in their customers' October bills. MERALCO logo “Initial data suggest that generation charge costs for October will have a...
The commercial operations of the country’s Renewable Energy Market (REM) for on-grid installations had been re-scheduled to June next year -- factoring in a one-year delay because of the continued pummeling of the health crisis, according to the Department of Energy....
The country’s Malampaya field logged its all-time high gas production at 155.495 billion standard cubic feet (scf) last year, according to data from the Department of Energy. The Malampaya gas field uses an innovative and sustainable deepwater technology for recovering natural gas from the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is scheduled to issue an advisory or order that will direct power utilities, like the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), to extend for at least 30 days the bill payments of customers in line with the prescription of Republic Act 11494 or the Bayanihan Act-2....
