14 • Sustainability Report 2012
New Energy Businesses
ECO Environmental Investments Limited (ECO), our
environmentally-friendly energy arm, has grown
actively in recent years with the implementation
and operation of a number of pioneering activities
in the world of clean energy. Starting with just two
projects in 2000, it is now involved in 22 businesses
both in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
ECO is active in the energy-related logistics and
infrastructure sector. Operating gas filling stations,
it provides cleaner fuel for vehicles both in Hong
Kong and mainland China. It also constructed
and operates the ECO Aviation Fuel Facility (EAFF)
which serves the fuel needs of the Hong Kong
International Airport. With its throughput of 6
million tonnes of fuel a year, it is one of Hong
Kong’s largest energy infrastructure facilities.
Moreover, the construction of a logistic port in
Jining, Shandong province to link an upstream coal
transportation railway with a nearby downstream
canal connecting Beijing and Hangzhou is nearly
complete.
With a liquefied coalbed methane (LCBM) facility
plant in Shanxi province as well as a coal-based
methanol plant in Inner Mongolia, ECO continues
to pioneer the transformation of renewable, waste
and low value resources into useful and high-
value energy. This portfolio will be expanding yet
again in view of our growing interest in methanol
processing and in conversion prospects for coke
oven gas, tar oil, and biomass energy.
During 2012, we also extended our facilities in
the upstream energy sector during the year, with
the acquisition of an oilfield in Thailand. This oil
exploration and production facility is our first
overseas oilfield project.
