Asia Energy

With large, easily accessible oil and gas discoveries long since picked over, a continued decline in petroleum production has encouraged a heavy reliance on foreign imports. While new exploration blocks offered up in 2013 could provide potential for more technically challenging opportunities in the coming years, the majority of the coveted offshore areas remain off-limited due to acrimonious...

With a wealth of untapped geological resources, including the world’s richest jade and ruby mines, Myanmar is set to attract a flood of foreign investment into its high-potential mining sector. In the decades to come, mining is expected to be one of the top drivers of Myanmar’s economic development. Current growth is being driven by a number of smaller projects in metals and by a boom in tin...

Myanmar has already hit its investment target of $4bn-5bn for the 2014/15 fiscal year six months ahead of schedule, thanks in part to the energy sector, which attracted $800m of investment in the first half of the fiscal year. As of December 2014 revenue from foreign investments in the oil and gas sector came to more than $15.1bn, second only to the power sector, which stood at $19.3bn. This...

Plans to complement domestic production by undertaking international exploration support the Sultanate’s target of reaching an output of 650,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2035. Downstream, the government is investing in development of its petrochemicals sectors. The country today is primarily an exporter of liquefied natural gas, which is shipped to Japan, South Korea and Malaysia,...

The near future will bring positive change for the energy sector and the economy as a whole, as the investment and construction phase of the $19bn Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project winds down and the first shipments of gas begin to flow. Progress is also being made in the utilities sector, with major power generation projects and the expansion of water and sewage networks....