Malaysia’s upstream O&G sector capex to near US$60b over 5 years, says Najib


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Malay Mail, dateline 2014-03-25:

The capital expenditure in Malaysia’s oil and gas sector’s upstream business is forecast to near US$60 billion (about RM198 billion) over the next five years, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today.

He said the amount contributed significantly to the total upstream spending in South East Asia, which was expected to receive one-fifth of the global upstream spending in the next decade.

“While global upstream spending in the oil and gas sector is expected to remain set at around US$700 billion (about RM2.31 trillion) over the next decade, close to 20 per cent of this spending will be here in South East Asia,” said Najib, who is also the Finance Minister, at the opening of the inaugural Offshore Technology Conference Asia 2014.

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