‘Inclusive growth’ has become the current buzzword. Some say it’s a myth, others say that the country is a long way from it. The Philippines’ robust economy would have made it easy to believe that middle-class comforts are now within the reach of the majority of Filipinos. Studies tell otherwise. There are more and more […]
DENR-Mimaropa and the Mindoro Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc. formalised its partnership with a Memorandum of Agreement in working towards environment protection and conservation in the province of Mindoro. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mimaropa (DENR) and the Mindoro Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc. (MBCFI) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on July 15, 2013, formalising their […]
[Puerto Princesa City, Palawan] – Fifty Eight (58) Bridging Employment through Skills Training (BEST) scholars received their NCII certification in different industrial trades at a graduation ceremony held in Puerto Princesa, Palawan on June 19, 2013. Officials from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Puerto Princesa School of Arts and Trade (PPSAT), Puerto Princesa […]
Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) has given its support to Wawa Elementary School in Calapan City in Mindoro Oriental, as the school was chosen to be this year’s recipient of its adopt-a-school project under the National Schools Maintenance Week or Brigada Eskwela program of the Department of Education. Jolly Ann Belina, head teacher of Wawa Elementary […]
Twenty-nine scholars of Malampaya Foundation, Inc.’s (MFI) Bridging Employment through Skills Training (BEST) programme have just completed the five-month technical-vocational course at the Keppel Shipyard in Bauan, Batangas. The scholars from Mindoro began their training in December of 2012. Prior to the training, the scholars were supervised by the Technical Vocational School of Baco, Oriental […]
Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) and the provincial government of Oriental Mindoro recently held five-day intensive reef-check training in the town of Puerto Galera. Ten volunteers from the public and private sectors underwent the training that is aimed at arming members of the local community with the skills needed to monitor and conduct sea surveys, particularly in […]
A “Strike Steel” ceremony was held by the Malampaya Joint Venture Partners to commemorate the start of construction of the substructure and topside modules of the Depletion Compression Platform (DCP) at the Keppel Subic Shipyard in Subic, Zambales. The event signifies the construction stage of Malampaya Phase 3 (MP3), the next phase of development of […]
The Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI) made a donation to the victims of the recent flooding in Metro Manila and Central Luzon, giving a total of Php 2 million to the relief operations headed by the foundations of the country’s top television networks GMA and ABS-CBN. The cheque handover was held August 14 at the ABS-CBN […]
The Service Contract 38 (SC 38) Consortium, composed of Malampaya Joint Venture Partners Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX), Chevron Malampaya LLC, and the Philippine National Oil Company Exploration Corporation (PNOC-EC), hosted an “Energy Breakfast” series last June 7, June 28, and June 29, at the Han and Tang Meeting Room of the Tower Club, at […]
Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX), operator of the Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project, supported the Department of Energy (DOE) in staging the “Philippine Upstream Petroleum Task Force Forum on Maritime Industry and Support Services (PUPTF-MISS)”. The forum brought together both government and the private sector to discuss relevant Upstream concerns and challenges on maritime support services […]
Silonay Elementary School in Calapan City is Malampaya’s Brigada Eskwela recipient for 2012. The project is part of Malampaya’s strong education thrust for its stakeholders in Oriental Mindoro. Brigada Eskwela or National Schools Maintenance Week is headed by the Department of Education (DepEd), and is a nationwide clean-up and repair programme aimed at […]
SPEECH-ACCENT or the special language enhancement training course sponsored by the provincial government of Oriental Mindoro and the Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI) has been extended for another year after the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the two parties last May 15, 2012 in Calapan City. Karen Agabin is being briefed by Olive […]
Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI), together with the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro and environmental non-governmental organisations, partnered to stage the Environmental Youth Action Camp in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro. The three-day event brought together selected high school students from the three coastal towns of Baco, Puerto Galera and San Teodoro, and the city of Calapan. […]
Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) staff and guests visited The Mind Museum at Taguig on March 2 and 8, 2012. Shell is a donor of the museum, and SPEX was among those invited for a sneak peek before it formally opens to the public on March 16. The Mind Museum makes science come to life […]
Manila, 9 December 2011 – The Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project marks 10 years of natural gas production since commencing operations in 2001. Fueling three gas-fired power stations generating a total of 2,700 megawatts, the country’s reliance on imported fuel for power generation has been reduced by approximately 30%, with natural gas from Malampaya currently meeting […]
Forty-two residents from different barangays in the town of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro participated in a comprehensive five-day Integrated Farming Bio-System (IFBS) training which gave them the necessary skills and knowledge in modern organic farming, animal husbandry, and vegetable farming. A project of the Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI), IFBS is part of its sustainable development thrust […]
Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) held its first ever Neighbourhood Emergency Services Team (NEST) Olympics last September 16, 2011 at the Batangas City Coliseum grounds which was participated by the residents from 11 barangays in the city. The successful event was in cooperation with the Batangas City Government, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Batangas, Bureau […]
Traditionally the livelihood of men, farming was not the obvious choice for Irene Pablo, a pure-blooded Mangyan woman from a remote tribal village in the mountains of Oriental Mindoro. But since taking the five-day educational seminar known as the Integrated Farming Bio-System (IFBS), Irene, 24, has broken the old stereotype by personally cultivating her family’s […]
Batangas City– President Benigno Aquino III kicked-off the next-phase development of the Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power project with a visit to its Onshore Gas processing Plant in Batangas on August 9, 2011. During the visit, President Aquino witnessed the signing of the first contract awarded for the project by the Service Contract 38 (SC38) consortium. A […]
Malampaya has recently been granted a continuous certification to ISO 14001 for its facilities at the Asian Star Building in Alabang, the Malampaya Onshore Gas Plant in Batangas, the Batangas Supply Base, and the Malampaya Shallow Water Platform off Palawan. ISO 14001 is a certification of compliance to environmental standards, the aim of which is […]
