Rites set for P2-billion gas project Manila Bulletin - Tuesday,...

Rites set for P2-billion gas project

Manila Bulletin -

Tuesday, August 25Send IM Story Print
Pagbilao, Quezon -

The ground-breaking ceremony for a P2-billion ($400 million) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal and a power plant of the Energy World Corp. (EWC) is set 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 in Barangay Ibaba Polo here.

Expected to attend the ceremony are Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes, Quezon Gov. Rafael Nantes, Quezon first district Rep. Mark Enverga, EWC chairman and CEO Stewart Elliott, Pagbilao Mayor Venus Portes, and Ibaba Polo Barangay Captain Wilfredo Martinez.

Former Governor Eduardo Rodriguez said that the initiator of the LNG terminal is expected to finish the project before the end of 2010, while the 300-megawatt LNG power plant will be completed in the middle of 2011. The LNG project is the first of its kind in the Philippines.

Stewart Elliott, head of EWC, was formerly with Hopewell which constructed the power plant in this town during the provincial administration of Rodriguez more than a decade ago.

EWC is an Australian exploration company whose principal activities are exploration, development, and production of gas and oil, design, construction, operation and maintenance of gas, processing plant and gas pipelines; development, design, construction, operation and maintenance of power stations, and development and production of liquefied natural gas, design, construction, operation and maintenance of LNG plants and road transport of LNG.