Philippine Energy Policy Wiki

Topic: Fuels

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Map of Content for the fuel supply side: indigenous gas, oil, and coal, the imports that fill the gaps, the statutes and contracts governing extraction and sale, and the emerging low-carbon fuels. This page links out to existing concepts/, entities/, and programs/ pages — it moves nothing and duplicates nothing.

Belongs here: a page about a fuel, its supply chain, or the regime governing its extraction, import, or sale. Electricity generated from these fuels belongs in Topic: Power Market ; emissions accounting and transition finance belong in Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance ; shifting transport off liquid fuels belongs in Topic: Energy Efficiency and Clean Transport .

Pages

  • Natural Gas (Philippines) — the domestic fossil fuel designated a transition fuel by RA 12120, wholly supplied from Malampaya and heading for depletion around 2039, with the statute granting DOE exclusive regulatory authority and setting a supply priority of indigenous over aggregated over imported gas; the page to read on the gas sector’s legal framework and its VAT asymmetry.
  • Malampaya Gas Field — the country’s only significant domestic gas source, its Service Contract 38 renewed in 2023 for fifteen years against 147 BCF of remaining reserves and a deep-water drilling obligation, whose decline is the supply-side driver behind the offshore wind and nuclear targets; the page to read on the field’s contract history and production trajectory.
  • Philippine Downstream Natural Gas Industry (PDNGI) — the statutory term for gas transmission, distribution, and supply downstream of production, with Own-Use and Third-Party-Access permits requiring no legislative franchise, aggregation blending indigenous and imported gas, and the first stranded-asset risk tracking in Philippine energy law; the page to read on who may operate a terminal or pipeline and under which permit track.
  • LNG Imports as Transition Fuel — the designated bridge filling the Malampaya gap, with seven approved projects totaling about 22 MTPA, growing to the largest single generation source by 2050 under the Reference Scenario while the Clean Energy Scenarios substitute offshore wind and nuclear for most of it; the page to read on the tension between near-term dispatchability and a long-run emissions liability.
  • Downstream Oil Industry — the fully deregulated import, refining, storage, and retail sector under RA 8479, with free entry, a uniform tariff, criminal penalties for cartelization, and a single remaining refinery after two competitors converted to import terminals; the page to read on who may import or sell fuel and how violations are prosecuted.
  • Petroleum Service Contracts (PSCs / SCs) — the PD 87 instrument granting rights to explore and produce indigenous petroleum, licensed through the Conventional Energy Contracting Program, with service fees, cost recovery, and the Filipino Participation Incentive Allowance; the page to read on how an upstream petroleum right is obtained and what it pays.
  • Upstream Coal Sector — indigenous coal exploration and production under Coal Operating Contracts, which continued through the moratorium because coal still supplied about 60% of generation, with domestic output covering under half of consumption and imports overwhelmingly from a single country; the page to read on domestic coal supply and import concentration.
  • Coal Moratorium (2020) — the DOE advisory halting endorsements for new greenfield coal plants while exempting existing and already-approved projects, which cut the pipeline by over 70% in two and a half years. Cross-listed on Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance as a mitigation measure; here it is the supply constraint on new coal, and the page to read on exactly what the moratorium does and does not reach.
  • Voluntary CFPP Retirement and Repurposing — early coal plant retirement as a voluntary supply-side measure, driven by a modeled 40-year technical life rather than mandate, with repurposing to gas or renewables-plus-storage and the ADB-led Energy Transition Mechanism as financing. Cross-listed on Topic: Climate, Transition and Finance as blended finance; here it is what happens to the coal fleet, and the page to read on retirement volumes by scenario.
  • Biofuels Industry (Philippines) — biodiesel and bioethanol production under RA 9367, with a statutory blending schedule whose minimums became a permanent floor, a food-security override protecting sugar supply from feedstock demand, and a roadmap raising biodiesel to B5 by 2026; the page to read on blend mandates and domestic production capacity.
  • Hydrogen and its Derivatives — hydrogen and ammonia at the R&D and policy-formulation stage with no domestic production targets, a national framework still pending, ammonia co-firing under feasibility study, and cooperation agreements with four countries; the page to read on how far hydrogen policy has actually got.
  • Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) — the renewable jet-fuel substitute with no domestic production as of 2023, confined to feedstock identification and R&D, framed as the instrument for aviation decarbonization under the Philippines’ CORSIA commitment; the page to read on the aviation decarbonization pathway and its early stage.
  • Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) — the GOCC created during the oil crisis, now a holding company whose exploration arm holds a Malampaya stake and multiple service contracts while its renewables arm develops solar, hydro, and waste-to-energy and holds ESCO accreditation; the page to read on the state’s own commercial position across the fuel chain.
  • Philippine Upstream Petroleum Task Force (PUPTF) — the EO 60 multi-agency body chaired by the DOE Secretary that streamlines procedures for petroleum operations and resolves inter-agency service-contract issues, funded from the Malampaya Fund; the page to read on how upstream petroleum support is coordinated, as distinct from EICC’s infrastructure permitting.
  • Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (PH-EITI) — the Philippine implementation of the global extractive-transparency standard, run by a tripartite Multi-Stakeholder Group that reconciles petroleum and geothermal revenue flows including the Malampaya Fund’s government share; the page to read on what extractive revenue is disclosed and how it is verified.

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