Myanmar is reportedly planning to open *fresh* bids for its oil and gas blocks to international companies. In last few years, the Myanmar government has taken.
Demand for Myanmar's industrial zones beyond Yangon is bound to grow but poor transport and energy infrastructure have held back investments, a major ...
Writing is an essential tool, the way sister theologians in Myanmar can share their thoughts and ideas with people around the world and ensure the diversity of ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is unfortunate that Myanmar has failed to create a congenial atmosphere to take back the Rohingyas yet, despite an ...
US industrial and manufacturing giant General Electric Co (GE) is stepping up its investments in manufacturing technology and digital innovation with the first ...
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Myanmar angered China in 2011 when its former quasi-civilian government suspended the $3.6 billion Myitsone hydro-power dam in the country's north ami..
Any rise in electricity rates to be announced this year will take into account the needs of ordinary people, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of ...
China's National Energy Administration is advising the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on a white paper for hydropower policy at the same time as its ...
YANGON, Feb 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Catholic leaders are lending their support to protesters against a Chinese-backed dam project in Myanmar, ...
The fledgling democracy is opening up to the world – leading to a transformation in how it monitors earthquakes.
EDOTCO Myanmar Limited, an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, reinforces its commitment to championing sustainable ...
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[NAYPYITAW] A top Myanmar investment official on Tuesday suggested alternatives such as scaling back or relocating a stalled Chinese-backed dam project ...
India and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday exchanged memorandums of understanding (MoUs) after talks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown ...
The island Pataw Pahtet, just north west of Myeik City, is a bustling industrial shipyard surrounded by warehouses, cold storage facilities and crab farms. Go on ...
Sources have told Frontier that the Chinese government is advising the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on a white paper for hydropower policy.
February 21 (Renewables Now) - Indian green energy infrastructure developer EverSource Capital is holding talks to buy a minority interest in domestic sect.
Reading news reports coming out of Myanmar, I am always taken with the debate over the impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Of particular interest ...
Malaysia will host Shell Eco-marathon Asia in 2019 as part of its global Make the Future Live programme. Held at Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur, ...
The government of Myanmar has announced that it will begin importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help meet the growing energy demands of the country.
TheTribune: For the first time since the global oil shock of 1973, India's faltering steps towards energy security have given way to a holistic oil diplomacy that lays ...
DRIVEN by its vision to become an innovative leader in Myanmar's growing energy sector, locally-owned Parami Energy Group of Companies plans to invest ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 27, 2018--The "Myanmar Energy Weekly Brief" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. An overview of ...
Home to one of the world's oldest oil and gas industries, oil exploration in Myanmar began in the early Bagan era. During the reign of King Anawrahta in the ...
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The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) is drafting a renewable energy law to develop the sector, said U Maung Maung Kyaw, Chief Engineer from the ...
The United Kingdom will assist Myanmar in implementing renewable-energy projects. a senior UK official said.
U.K. developer Lightsource BP – in which oil and gas giant BP has a significant minority stake – and its Singapore fund partner EverSource Capital are ...
Since sanctions by the United States (US) and European Union (EU) were lifted, Myanmar has enjoyed relatively strong economic growth. According to the ...
Myanmar's government has announced new oil and gas tender plans just as green shoots are being sighted in Southeast Asian upstream investment. But the ...
Thailand-based Modern Energy Management (MEM) says it has teamed up with an undisclosed investor to develop a 130 MWp solar PV project in Myanmar.
India plans to set up an LNG terminal in Myanmar as part of New Delhi's energy diplomacy strategy.
On August 30 the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) announced it would be opening *fresh* rounds of bidding for oil and gas blocks in the first half of next ...
New bids for oil and gas exploration and development rights on a series of blocks, along with reforms to joint-venture requirements, are expected to stoke ...
As the scramble for more power sources intensifies, focus has centered on tapping Myanmar's gas fields to meet demand. But can the country afford its own ...
Toyo Thai Power Myanmar Co Ltd (TPMC) plans to invest between US$350 million (K471 billion) to US$500 million to set up a liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
Myanmar's high growth in electricity demand — rising by around 13 percent annually — is a challenge for the government. Demand is estimated to reach 4,500 ...
Investors include cross-border crowdfunding platforms Crowdcredit (Japan) and Trine (Sweden) SolarHome, a Singapore-based company that brings ...
After announcing high-profile gas-fired power projects earlier this year, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy is now focusing on a string of hydropower dams ...
The Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University was selected among participants from 182 countries as this year's winner of the Energy Globe Award in Japan.
Parami Energy will accelerate the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) next year, CEO U Pyi Wa Tun said yesterday. He said in a press conference that ...
Myanmar's national electrification process is still on hold one year after the new administration took office. The replacement of the Minister of Energy in early ...
Myanmar has increased Electricity production rate of over 470 megawatts more within a month, raising the total to 3430 megawatts, according to Ministry of ...
Appraisal well Shwe Yee Htun-2 has been successfully drilled with formation evaluation results indicating a gas column and net pay thickness that substantially ...
Myanmar's government recently gave the go-ahead to some of the largest power projects in recent years, but it now faces a major short-term challenge.
By THOMAS KEAN | FRONTIER. The Ministry of Electricity and Energy has issued a notice to proceed to the developers of the 60-megawatt Deedoke ...
With 5.5 percent annual growth of gross domestic product, Myanmar was one of the fastest growing countries in ASEAN during 2011-2015. The growth of ...
The country's first solar power plant will start operating in November, U Maung Maung Kyaw, chief engineer of the Electric Supply Enterprise, said.
Business leader Serge Pun weighed into the debate on the country's energy tariff reforms at the Myanmar Global Investment Forum in Nay Pyi Taw on ...
THE BUSINESS TIMES Companies & Markets - SEMBCORP Industries on Wednesday announced that its 225-megawatt gas-fired Sembcorp Myingyan ...
BANGKOK -- Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of Thailand's national oil and gas conglomerate PTT, plans to greatly expand its in.
Myanmar's political and economic development has become more fragile. International headlines are dominated by state-directed violence against the cou.
With an offshore oil and gas tender on the horizon, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy says it is reviewing the fiscal terms in its production sharing contracts to ...
New Delhi: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has held a meeting with H.E. U Win ...
YANGON (Reuters) - Opposition to a planned $3 billion coal-fired power plant in eastern Myanmar is highlighting the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi's ...
Arrangements have been made to prepare sufficient electricity to meet rising demand next year, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE).
Electrification is increased by nine per cent in 2018 in compared with the number of households which accessed to national grip in 2015-16 FY and reached to ...
Given that nearly 70 per cent of the population in Myanmar lacks access to electricity, the government must optimise its abundant natural resources to implement ...
Improved trade and investment will bring many benefits to both countries says leaders and members of the business community in Myanmar and India.
New Delhi: Myanmar has joined the India-initiated International Solar Alliance (ISA), becoming the 68th member of the grouping that is aiming at optimum ...
The International Finance Corporation and government of Myanmar have released a draft strategic environmental assessment intended to help guide ...
In 1807, when he patented the first hydrogen-powered engine, François Isaac de Rivaz could have been forgiven for thinking he had found the future of transport ...
With more than four out of ten people in Myanmar without access to electricity, the nation's economic development relies on the government's willingness to ...
Hong Kong-listed VPower Group inked a deal with the government to operate a rental power project in Mandalay Region. The company signed a power ...
Posco Daewoo, the trading unit of Posco, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a solar plant that it will build for free of charge on an island in Myanmar in hopes ...
Renewed interest in coal in Myanmar carries broad risks for the government. But while greener energy is desirable, renewables come with their own problems.
A 145-megawatts natural gas-fired power plant will be built in Kyaukse of Mandalay Region, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy.
Changes in a petroleum law in Myanmar could help the Southeast Asian country attract investment in to the oil and gas sector, while reducing the growing strain ...
Myanmar is raising efforts to draw foreign direct investments (FDI) into the country after its economy took a beating in recent quarters, hit by the slide of the kyat ...
YANGON -- When Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy was swept into power in 2015, economic development was a key priority and the fledglin.
September 4 (Renewables Now) - Thailand-based renewable energy consultancy Modern Energy Management (MEM) has joined hands with an unnamed ...
By Dane Chamorro and Tom McNulty. There has been an almost never-ending stream of negative news about Southeast Asia's energy market, once one of the ...
As the National League for Democracy-led government is half-way through its five-year term, the empty hotel rooms, plight of small businesses and falling ...
EATON CORPORATION PLC, a multinational power management company with 2017 sales of US$20.4 billion globally, expanded into the Myanmar market last ...
Myanmar is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials told Reuters on Wednesday, ...
Even though Myanmar managed to bring down its trade deficit by US$500 million to $1.3 billion during the period between April 1 and September 30 from the ...
Set-listed PTT Exploration and Production Plc (PTTEP) is proposing that Myanmar's energy policymakers develop and operate a large gas-fired power plant to ...
Despite the relaxation of regulations for foreign investors to enter the fuel import and distribution business in Myanmar, no new companies have entered the ...
Electricity-starved Myanmar is looking to overhaul its long-term power strategy, aiming to hike the planned share of hydropower in its energy mix at the cost of ...
An agreement has been signed by Magwe regional government and Infra Capital Myanmar-ReEx to carry out feasibility studies for a wind power project in the ...
Myanmar has some of the lowest electricity rates in the world. However, connecting and supplying power to the millions of people who will drive Myanmar's ...
Can Myanmar take a path to sustainable development that avoids the pitfalls of the orthodox development paradigm? This report argues that this is not only ...
Opportunities to invest in Myanmar oil and gas are emerging on the back of a string of changes and restructuring efforts now taking place in the sector.
The Philippines-based energy company has signed the share purchase agreements to acquire a 15% stake in two Thai companies, which are building a 220 ...
By THOMAS KEAN | FRONTIER. YANGON — The Ministry of Electricity and Energy is reviewing the fiscal terms of its production sharing contracts ahead of an ...
Frontier's Thomas Kean interviews Mr Yacine Chouabia, business development director for Asia, Électricité de France about the Shweli-3 hydropower project in ...
The Indian central government will initially spend Rs 700 billion (70,000 crore) to spread gas pipelines across the country. It is also working out plans to expand ...
By Moe Moe 1 August 2018. Naypyitaw — Myanmar's people have the lowest access to electricity in Southeast Asia, according to U Myo Myint, an energy expert ...
With *fresh* oil and gas reserves at Myanmar's offshore blocks now approved for commercial activities, the Ministry of Energy and Electricity (MOEE) will invite ...
The government is now more than half way through its term and time is running out for it to make good on its promise to double Myanmar's supply of electricity ...
Despite grave warnings over the environmental costs, Myanmar is pushing ahead with a number of coal-fired power plants. The villagers who will suffer the most ...
US-listed power management company Eaton Corporation announced its expansion into the Myanmar market through a partnership with Myanmar Golden Rock ...
YANGON -- Two and a half years after the Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy, led by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, took the reins of go.
Parami Energy Group of Companies, a local firm, will distribute liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Myanmar under its own brand, CEO U Pyi Wa Tun told The ...
Key View: Myanmar's energy sector will benefit from PTT's overseas expansion strategy, as the state-owned looks to diversify away from the mature and ...
MYANMAR has been focusing on coal and large hydropower projects and is not on track to develop renewable energy sources, local and international civil ...
The Myanmar government must undertake reforms in its hydropower sector to prevent dam projects from negatively impacting rural ethnic minority communities ...
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) last week issued a Notice to Proceed for the Shweli-3 hydropower project on the Shweli River, near Moemeik town ...
Author: Aiko Shimizu, Bloomberg New Energy Finance Myanmar is on track to be a major player in Asia's energy security. It has an abundance of untapped.