Setting up gas distribution network

December 13, 2016

I like the photo accompanying the article. Were the reporters give a heads up to pose?

Dateline 2016-11-02, Borneo Post:

The state government plans to introduce legislation on the distribution and reticulation of gas in Sarawak either at the next State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting this Nov 21 to 30, or the one after that.

Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem said the proposal was made in view of the distribution and reticulation of gas in the state for consumers’ usage not being properly regulated.

“There appears to be a vacuum and there’s no proper law with regard to the distribution and reticulation of gas in the state. This is a state power within Sarawak and we intend to introduce the legislation in the coming DUN sitting, or the one after that,” he said during a press conference held after the signing of contract on ‘E6 Field Development Project (Fabrication of E6DP – A Substructure and Topsides) for Sarawak Shell Bhd’ between the management of Shell Companies in Malaysia (Shell) and Brooke Dockyard and Engineering Works Corporation (Brooke Dockyard) at a hotel here yesterday.

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Sarawak says ‘not in picture’ over Petronas’ oil production share with foreign firms

October 15, 2016

Dateline 2016-08-28, Malay Mail Online:

The Sarawak government said it is in the dark about Petronas’ production sharing contracts (PSCs) award to Thai and Kuwaiti companies to jointly explore a block of petroleum resource off the state’s coast.

Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem repeatedly said he did not have any knowledge of the matter when questioned about Block SK410B, said to be located in shallow waters off the state’s coast, The Borneo Post reported today.

“I don’t know about this matter, so cannot make any comments,” he told a news conference in Kuching yesterday, even after being informed that Thailand’s PTTEP HK Offshore Ltd and Kuwait’s Kufpec Malaysia Sdn Bhd would hold 42.5 per cent respectively, while Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd would hold only 15 per cent of the PSC.

The award was reportedly inked on July 21.

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Sarawak seeks to regulate Petronas activities within state

July 24, 2016

Dateline 2016-06-15, Malay Mail:

Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem announced today the state government’s plans to regulate the seabed and subsoil activities of national oil company Petronas and its contractors within its territory.

He said Sarawak’s regulatory framework would be based on relevant state laws to which Petronas and its contractors would have to abide.

“Petronas, a corporation having rights to prospect and mine petroleum both offshore and onshore under the Petroleum development Act, 1974, will have to be regulated and abide by the provisions of the Oil Mining Ordinance of Sarawak and the Land Code in regard to the use and occupation of State Land within the boundaries of Sarawak for the prospecting and mining of petroleum,” he said when winding up the debate in the state assembly here.

He said the Land Code of Sarawak, which came into effect on January 1, 1959, defines “state land” to include the seabed and subsoil which forms part of the continental shelf by virtue of an Order made by the British Queen while Sarawak was still a Colony.

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Sarawak to ease demands on oil royalty in light of price slump, says Chief Minister

February 27, 2016

Dateline 2016-01-11, Malay Mail:

Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem said he will delay pushing Putrajaya to increase oil royalty payments to his state, after the falling price of the commodity forced the federal government to revise its Budget for the year.

“The present oil price is now under US$35 per barrel against US$115 per barrel over a year ago, so we have to go slow in our demand until the price has gone up to a certain level,” he said at the signing of a contract agreement between Talisman Malaysia Limited and OceanMight Sdn Bhd.

The contract is for the engineering procurement construction of a wellhead platform for the Kinabalu redevelopment project here.

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Bar Petronas execs from entering Sarawak to end royalty impasse, state DAP tells Adenan

May 31, 2015

Ah, click bait. And is he asking to ban GST execs as well?

Dateline 2015-04-27, TMI:

Sarawak DAP chief today suggested that Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem to use the state’s immigration powers to bar Petronas executives and managers from entering the state to break the deadlock on demand for an increase in oil and gas royalty.

Chong Chieng Jen, who is also Kota Sentosa assemblyman, also urged Adenan to cancel work permits of those employed in the offices of Petronas, Malaysia Liquefied Natural Gas (MLNG) and their subsidiary companies in the state.

In urging the state to resort to strong arm tactics against the national oil and gas company, Chong said that the state “needs to use more drastic and harsher means” to push its demands for the increase in royalty.

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Adenan admits spectacular failure of oil talks

May 1, 2015

Spectacular as “we lost a pocket lining income pipeline”, or “we managed to get hit with GST on the royalty?”

Dateline 2015-03-19, FMT:

Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem, just back from a visit to Sabah from where he came away “impressed”, has disclosed that oil talks with Petronas and the Federal Government have failed and spectacularly at that. “We don’t want people to take away our oil and gas with us being onlookers,” said Adenan. “We want an equal partnership.”

“We don’t want to be spectators. We want to be active participants.”

He pledged that the Sarawak Government would pursue the revised oil royalty demand until “we achieve what we want”.

The talks, based on an unanimous resolution passed by the Sarawak Assembly, was about raising the oil royalty to a respectable 20 per cent cash payout. Sabah and Sarawak, at present get a measly 5 per cent.

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Sarawak wants higher oil royalty

November 18, 2014

Dateline 2014-08-27, Free Malaysia Today:

Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem has confirmed that he will seek an upward revision to the present 5 per cent oil royalty “to spur its development under the 12th Malaysia Plan”.

He disclosed that the Sarawak government was still engaged in talks with the Federal government and Petronas, the national oil corporation, on the quantum of increase.

“We are not satisfied with the present five per cent,” he reiterated in a statement after an Aidilfitri gathering in Sebuya near here yesterday.

“Increasing the revenue from oil royalty would be one of the thrusts in the Sarawak government’s development planning.”

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Adenan misleading Sarawakians on oil royalty

October 26, 2014

Dateline 2014-08-22, Free  Malaysia Today:

Sarawak DAP has warned the people that Chief Minister Adenan Satem is trying to pull wool over their eyes by linking a measly 10 per cent stake in various gas projects, the latest being in MLNG.4, with the 20 per cent oil royalty demand.

Sarawak DAP Chief and DAP National vice-chairman Chong Chieng Jen urged Adenan to come clean on his recent talks with Petronas on the oil issue.

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Sarawak’s oil royalty poser

August 3, 2014

Dateline 2014-06-10, Malaysia Chronicle:

SARAWAK Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem, just 100-odd days in office, has made a demand for an increase in oil royalty to the state from 5% to 20% a key agenda of his administration.

Last month, the state assembly passed a resolution to this effect and Adenan repeated it last week, in the presence of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in Miri.

Najib said the federal government would consider the matter.

Those who are familiar with how the formula of royalty payment to the oil producing states of Sabah, Sarawak and Terengganu works are astounded by the demand, especially asking for a 15% increase, which is ridiculously high.

It calls into question whether the Sarawak state government understands the formula, which I must add here, is rarely explained to the public by Petronas.

Hence public ignorance of the oil royalty issue.

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Adenan sets oil royalty as priority

April 18, 2014

All hail the new CM. 5% of gross?

Dateline 2014-03-16, The Star:

New Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem is showing signs he will speak up on contentious issues and take a different stand from his predecessor.

In an interview with The Star, Adenan spoke assertively on the Malaysia Agreement, but even more surprising were his views on the oil royalty for Sarawak.

“I would like to have 20% royalty, sure,” he said, “but what was agreed before was 5% of gross. I will ask the Federal Government if they can accommodate us but let us be realistic”.

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