by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Commodities, Energy & Trading, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRJurong Island was created by amalgamating seven small islands through land reclamation, producing a single industrial site hosting refineries, petrochemical plants and specialty chemical producers. It is one of the world’s largest integrated energy...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Commodities, Energy & Trading, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore is one of the world’s three main oil trading centres alongside London and Houston, and the pricing point for Asian refined products. It holds no oil reserves. The position rests on refining capacity, storage, bunkering demand, a benchmark...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s media sector combines a state-owned broadcaster, a newspaper group restructured into a not-for-profit entity receiving public funding, and a regulatory framework that includes licensing, content rules and a law against online falsehoods....
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore is one of the world’s most important submarine cable landing points, with dozens of international cables terminating there and plans to substantially expand landing capacity. That physical connectivity is the reason the country hosts data...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore paused new data centre approvals in 2019 because the sector was consuming an unsustainable share of national electricity in a country with no domestic energy resources. The pause was lifted in 2022 with a capacity allocation process, and a...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Telecom, Media & Data Infrastructure
⚡ TL;DRSingapore’s telecommunications market moved from a state monopoly to full competition in stages, with three main mobile operators, a fourth entrant, numerous virtual operators and a structurally separated national fibre network owned by a listed...
