March 4th, 2010 | Viewed : 55 times
The Vestas Services Philippines Inc. is scheduled to be inaugurated this evening and will eventually hire 200 local employees by 2011 with an initial start this year of 100 hirees. They currently have 25 employees already in their stable.
The site will support Vestas global operations providing backend support for the operation of 11,500 turbines worldwide. Their tasks include surveillance, service desk and programming. Vestas already has similar facilities in Denmark, Singapore and the US.
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March 4th, 2010 | Viewed : 66 times
Manuel V. Pangilinan, a director of MERALCO and most importantly heads Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) and telecoms giant PLDT said that he had encouraged MERALCO to look into clean energy power generation so as to improve its bottom line along with providing a full spectrum of energy to consumers.
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March 3rd, 2010 | Viewed : 42 times
Barely into the summer season and a few weeks from announcing the hottest day in the Metro. A new record high for 2010 was set for the hottest day in the capital as Metro Manila registered a 35.5 C temperature reading in the mercury.
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February 27th, 2010 | Viewed : 72 times
Forum Energy, who owns the service contract (SC 72) of the disputed Oil Rich Reed Bank has allotted $3M for exploring the oil resource in the said area. Forum Energy has 70% ownership of SC 72, while Philex Mining in 2008 acquired 65% ownership of Forum Energy.
Exploration stage is projected to last seven years that will be broken down into 4 phases.
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February 27th, 2010 | Viewed : 50 times
In the continuing saga of the shortage of CNG for Buses, the operators of CNG buses in Metro Manila accused the Dept of Energy and Shell Philippines of collusion to ensure that the pilot CNG program for buses be declared a failure so that the operators will revert back to diesel.
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February 25th, 2010 | Viewed : 90 times
According to PAGASA, yesterday Feb 24 2010 was the hottest day of 2010 in the Philippines wherein the temperature reached 34.5C at around 1:50 PM. However, with it only being February the country could expect still warmer days ahead with the onset of summer.
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