Cooking fuel will come heavier on the budgets of households this week as the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will go up by P0.27 to P0.30 per kilogram (kg) for the month of March, as announced by the industry players. Leading player Petron Corporation, in particular, implemented LPG price...
Gas field operator Prime Energy Resources Development B.V. (Prime Energy) has announced the award of a contract to US firm subsidiary One Subsea of the Schlumberger group, for the supply of equipment for phase 4 drilling in the extended Malampaya project. The supply of equipment, according to the...
Razon-led Prime Energy is sorting out ‘rigorous routine maintenance inspections’ and plant shutdowns at the Malampaya facility as a preparatory step for planned fresh round of exploration and drilling activities for the extended production life cycle of the gas field. “For a facility with...
Gas supply from the Malampaya field has resumed and started feeding to the gas plants on Friday (February 23), , as affirmed by the gas-offtakers (buyers) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The four-day zero gas production from February 19-23 had earlier prompted full shift to liquefied natural...
The Department of Energy (DOE) and Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are advancing on their ‘courting stage’ for capital flow on energy projects that shall be installed in the region. On top of that, the...
Gas-fired power plant operators have raised concerns over the ‘zero’ gas production rate at the Malampaya gas field which started last February 19 (Monday), because the shift to alternative fuels may trigger surge in electricity rates in the forthcoming billing cycles. A source from the...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will refund P0.05 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in March billing to customers, which accounts for the charges it passed on from the new gas sale and purchase agreement (GSPA) that its power supplier First Gen Corporation had sealed with the Malampaya...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be undertaking this year the first bid round to woo prospective investors for energy infrastructure developments in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The department announced that the launch of the planned auction for conventional...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is requiring power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to file a formal application for the pass-on of fuel charges that shall be reckoned from the new gas sale and purchase agreement (GSPA) that First Gen Corporation had signed with the Malampaya...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will refund the ‘generation charge overbilling’ that it has passed on in the February electric bills that had been invoiced by its power suppliers feeding on liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as components of capacity generated from the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has clearly stipulated that clearance shall be secured first before Manila Electric Company (Meralco) can pass on costs relating to procured supply from plants running on liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and that is primarily applied to its contracted...
Roughly 8.0 million customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will live through financial torment when they receive their February bills, as the overall rate of the country’s biggest power utility will rise by P0.5738 per kWh. On account of that, Meralco announced that the all-inclusive...
