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Sri Lanka renews Indian Oil Corp petroleum license for 20-years

The 20 years will start from January 2024

October 26, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka seeks investors for 200MW floating solar plant on Samanalawewa

Cabinet nod to call proposals from private investors to build a floating solar plant on the Samanalawewa reservoir

October 24, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka energy minister justifies latest tariff hike; warns of worse 2024

Sri Lanka has raised electricity tariff more than double since August last year

October 23, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka AG may clear electricity reform bill next week: Minister

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October 23, 2023 1 min read
Sri Lanka's Hambantota port, Sinopec adds HSFO to ship fuel range

.Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) and Marine Gas Oil (MGO/MDO) already available

Sri Lanka to have 90 min power cuts on Feb 10 and 11 after coal plant outage

The power cuts will start around 1530 pm and end at 1000 pm in four separate time slots of 90 minutes each.

Sri Lanka President says investors, deeper study, needed for new power projects

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya had called for new investors for the power generation but foreign investments must come t...

December 13, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka to double fuel storage, start India-Japan tripartite LNG plant in 2020

Power and Energy Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has said Sri Lanka's crude oil tank capacity will be doubled by 2020, while...

December 13, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka to abolish fuel price formula

Sri Lanka will end monthly cost based pricing of fuel, newly appointed State Minister of Energy Rohitha Abeygunewardena ...

November 30, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka says approved US$36n in FDI with US$24bn refinery

Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency has approved a 24 billion dollar refinery and petro chemical complex taking tota...

November 14, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's CEB to buy from small solar power at Rs14.24 a unit

Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Electricity Board is to purchase power from a small solar power plant at 14.24 rupees a un...

November 11, 2019 1 min read

Dimo-Siemens Consortium win Rs4.5bn power grid deal

Sri Lanka's Dimo (Pvt) Ltd and Siemens Ltd of India has won a 4.59 billion rupees deal to upgrade the section of a power...

November 9, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's ACL Cables gets Rs789mn CEB deal

Sri Lanka ACL Cables Plc, had won a 789.45 million rupee deal to supply cables to state-run Ceylon Electricity Board.

November 7, 2019 1 min read

Swiss Singapore Overseas gets Sri Lanka long-term coal supply deal at US$60.71

Swiss Singapore Overseas Enterprises Pte. Ltd., a commodity trader, has won a Sri Lankan government long-term contract ...

November 6, 2019 1 min read

Adani Global wins Sri Lanka coal spot tender

Singapore-based Adani Global Pte Ltd. has won a Sri Lankan government spot tender to supply coal to the island's Lakvija...

November 6, 2019 1 min read

Costly oil-based Sri Lanka power generation up sharply in first seven months

High-cost oil-based power generation rose sharply in Sri Lanka in the first seven months of 2019 from a year ago, accoun...

November 5, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Litro Gas emergency LPG supplies on way

Sri Lanka's state-run Litro Gas Plc had made an emergency purchase of 12,000 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas, i...

November 3, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka awards Murban crude deal to BB Energy of Singapore

Sri Lanka has awarded a contract to supply 8.4 million barrells of Murban grade crude to Singapore based B B Energy (As...

October 30, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's IOC unit Sep profits grow on low crude prices

Net profits at the Sri Lankan unit of the Indian Oil Company grew 150 percent to 517.4 million rupees in the September q...

October 25, 2019 1 min read
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Sri Lanka unit of Chevron profits grow in Sep with higher sales

Sri Lanka's Chevron Lubricants Lanka Plc posted 622.3 million rupees in profits for the September quarter, up 20 percent...

October 25, 2019 1 min read

Two year struggle by Sri Lanka investment agency to get land for refinery

Sri Lanka now has almost 10 billion US dollars in committed investments, including in two oil refineries, but to get lan...

October 24, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's LTL Holdings could be listed to stop tug-o-war, COPE told

Sri Lanka's LTL Holdings, a 63 percent owned unit of state-run Ceylon Electricity Board could be listed to end a stalema...

October 22, 2019 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Laugfs plans two 10MW floating solar power plants

Sri Lanka's Laugfs Gas group has sought approval through its power subsidiary to set up two floating solar energy plants...

October 21, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Laugfs Gas to list power subsidiary

Sri Lanka's Laugfs group is to list its renewable energy subsidiary Laugfs Power Limited with a reference price of 8.80 ...

October 17, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka power ministry raked over the coals on Turkey deal at COPE

A parliamentary committee on state enterprises took Sri Lanka's power ministry to task over failed deal to buy electrici...

October 10, 2019 3 min read

COPE chief faults CEB in audit battle over Sri Lanka's LTL group

The head of a parliamentary committee probing Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Electricity Board, who is waging a battle to ...

October 9, 2019 2 min read