China-invested power plant in Indonesia's South Sumatra starts site leveling -- The site leveling work of China Huadian Hong Kong Co., Ltd. (CHDHK)'s coal fired power plant in Indonesia started on August 1. The project is located in Muara Enim county of Indonesia's South Sumatra province, 90 kilometers from the province’s capital city Palembang, with 2×660MW designed installed capacity. it is a mine mouth coal-fired power plant invested by CHDHK. China Energy Engineering Group Zhejiang Thermal Power Construction Co., Ltd. (Energy China ZTPC) contracted to undertake the site leveling and clearing of the living area, construction site and temporary drainage pipe laying with a construction period of 100 days.
Chinese firm commences laying of tracks at Kenya's extended SGR -- A Chinese contractor of the extended Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) on Aug. 1 announced that it has started laying tracks and rail sleepers as implementation of the mega infrastructure project gathers steam. According to the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the laying of tracks and rail sleepers is being carried out from the Rift Valley county of Narok toward the capital of Nairobi. The 120-km Nairobi-Naivasha line is the first of the three segments that make up the second phase of the SGR project that ends in Malaba town located at the Kenya-Uganda border.
China-constructed urban railway in Vietnam starts final test runs -- Vietnam's first urban railway, constructed by China Railway Sixth Group Co. Ltd, started final test runs on Aug.1. The Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban rail line in Vietnam's Hanoi capital started test runs with full electricity system on Aug. 1. Over 100 representatives from Vietnamese and foreign news agencies in Vietnam and from the Chinese contractor boarded a four-carriage train to experience and evaluate its operation. As the air-conditioned green train smoothly moved on track, passengers turned more and more excited.
CSCEC starts construction on Abidjan's bridge project -- China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd (CSCEC) started construction on a bridge project in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on July 31. The project will to some extent help to ease traffic pressure of the city. The project is part of the country's overall development strategy, Cote d'Ivoire Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly said, adding that the construction of high-quality roads and bridges will be beneficial to the development of Cote d'Ivoire. The project mainly includes the construction of one main bridge, a viaduct and ramp bridge, three overpass bridges, a toll station as well as one underpass and related roads.
China Petroleum Engineering Corporation signs overseas contract worth USD 321mln -- China Petroleum Engineering Corporation (600339.SH) announced that its subsidiary had signed an EPC contract with Oman Tank Terminal Company (OTTCO) for Oman Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park Project. The Xinhua-run www.cs.com.cn reported that the total value of the contract reached 321 million U.S. dollars (about 2.178 billion yuan).
Chinese PV company Sungrow opens factory in India -- Chinese renewable energy company Sungrow recently opened its photovoltaic inverter manufacturing factory in Bangalore, India. With a total investment of 5.5 million U.S. dollars, the factory is designed with an annual production capacity of 3 gigawatt. It's learned that the company attaches great importance to the development of the Indian market. On the one hand, India has favorable natural conditions for the development of solar power. On the other hand, the Indian government has introduced a plan for the development of clean energy, and investing in PV industry is in line with the country's industrial development policy.
China's Sinopec still major buyer of Alaska's LNG project: report -- China's oil giant Sinopec Corp. will continue to be a principal buyer of gas from a 43-billion-U.S.-dollar LNG project in the northwest U.S. state of Alaska, though it will no longer participate in the construction of the Alaskan mega energy project, a media report said Aug. 2. Sinopec is still interested in 75 percent of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from the project, despite its withdrawal from future construction of Alaska LNG pipelines, Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) President Keith Meyer told Anchorage Daily News Aug.2.
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