First, the important stuff. Today is the one year anniversary demise of the King of Pop. C’mon KL, let’s roll down those car windows, and here his hits blast out across the streets! And a bit of moonwalking as well.
Back to our scheduled broadcast. A former chief minister speaks out against PETRONAS. He’s asking for a Sabahan to be appointed to the Board to look out for Sabah’s interests. Don’t know about you, but doesn’t a board of a company look out for its own interests? You would assume that Sabah will be a big contributor in the future, so if the Board was reasonably competent (and the PETRONAS senior executive team reasonably… reasonable?) Sabah’s future in the PETRONAS scheme of things is already taken care off.
Dateline 2010-06-24, though I don’t know how credible the e-newspaper is.
Kota Kinabalu: The best means of ensuring that Sabah’s interests are not ignored in Petronas’ dealings is to have a Sabahan appointed to its Board, said former Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh.
“It is believed that no Sabahan has been appointed by Petronas as a Board Member since its inception,” he said in a statement, Wednesday.
He said it was more timely now as “I understand Sabah is at the start of an oil boom after a string of successful discoveries of deep water fields”.
He believed the State’s deepwater projects like Kikeh, Gumusut/Kakap, Ubahcrest, Pisangan, Malikai Sumandak, Ambalak, etc, would propel Sabah to be the biggest producer of crude oil in Malaysia.
He said the projections are that Sabah is expected to produce 500,000 to 600,000 barrels per day compared to the current national production of only 700,000 barrels per day.
“This is not inclusive of (ex-Petronas Chairman) Tengku Razaleigh’s claim of a huge oil deposit found off Sabah, the biggest in South East Asia capable of producing one million barrels per day,” he said.
With the massive expected production from Sabah and from its operations since 1975, Harris presumed the State would be fully engaged in the industry, with major oil and gas infrastructures, downstream industries and activities.
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I want an Orang Noghri (or Sumatran) to be appointed to the Board, to ensure adat pepatih is fairly represented in legal dealings.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 