Energy

Investors have put concerns about political uncertainty in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to one side, encouraged by the keen interest buyers are showing in the country’s natural gas blocks and major new finds.

Aiming to sustain its impressive economic growth of recent years, Ghana is increasingly focusing on improving its electricity infrastructure. Rising demand, together with inconsistent input supply, is putting pressure on the government and key players to bolster the country’s production and transmission capacity.

Dado que la producción petrolera mexicana continúa con su tendencia hacia la baja, parece cada vez más probable que las nuevas reformas puedan abrir el sector, incluso más, a la inversión privada.

The construction of a geothermal power plant in Sabah has massive potential to boost the Malaysian state’s economy, while paving the way for other major developments in renewable energy.

Annual figures for Ghana’s nascent hydrocarbons sector – which has spurred a wave of capital spending in the country in recent years – have come in for 2011, bringing with them mixed news. While production levels fell short of expectations, output is expected to rise closer to targets within the next 18 months as technical adjustments begin to pay off.

Saudi Arabia is accelerating efforts to take its industrialisation process to the next level, moving from the processing of feedstocks – particularly hydrocarbons – towards utilising the resulting petrochemical materials for the manufacture of finished products. Rising demand on both the national power grid and on raw materials, however, could have an impact on the rate at which new developments are realised.