PKR promises to scale down and move RAPID project to Kertih

November 2, 2012

You know which box to tick.

Dateline 2012-10-05:

PKR said today it plans to scale down Petronas’ RM60 billion petrochemical project and move it from Pengerang in Johor to Kertih in Terengganu if it wins in the coming general election.

Critics of the controversial Refinery and Petrochemicals Development (RAPID) project have said that it will cause thousands of villagers in Pengerang to lose their homes and livelihoods.

“Why (do we) need to take the land of villagers in Pengerang when we have enough land in Kertih?” Wong Chen, PKR’s chairman of investment and trade bureau, asked at a press conference at the party’s headquarters here.

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Pengerang residents to rally in protest of petroleum complex project

October 21, 2012

Money well diverted can always solve these problems.

Dateline 2012-09-25:

Pengerang residents will hold a rally on Sunday to protest the development of the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC) in Johor, in which about 30,000 residents affected by the project will be relocated under a new settlement scheme.

Pengerang Everlasting Green Rally chairman Anis Afida Azli said the development of the PIPC was a 22,500-acre land grab that would lead to loss of sustainability among villagers and was detrimental to the environment.

“The PIPC project involves more than 10 traditional villages that have been in existence for more than 100 years. A total of 28,050 villagers will be affected by the project,” she told reporters outside Parliament today.

She added many villagers were fishermen and farmers who relied on natural resources for a living, and that their relocation to neighbouring villages was not suitable to extend their normal activities.

“Many farmers own farms that need to be harvested and it will take them a very long time to regrow their crops,” she explained.

“The fishermen are also unable to go down to sea because the density of fishermen there (following relocation) will be shifted.”

Anis Afida also said Pengerang’s reputation as a tourist destination will be affected drastically.

“It (Pengerang) is full of natural resources, sea life and unique landform that cannot be found anywhere else in Malaysia,” she said.

“The development of the complex will not only affect the environment, but also the tourist industry in neighbouring places like Desaru and Sebana,” she added.

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Pengerang rides on oil and gas boom

October 7, 2012

Dateline 2012-09-16:

PENGERANG, once a sleepy corner of Johor, is fast turning into a boom town for petroleum investors as the government steps up efforts to turn Malaysia into a regional oil and gas hub, rivalling Singapore.

Located south of Desaru, on the southeastern tip of Johor facing Singapore, Pengerang became the British army’s “Waterloo” in 1936 when they paid the price for underestimating their biggest nemesis then — the Japanese army.

The Japanese captured Malaya without firing a single shot from the Pengerang battery (a fort where weapons such as guns and cannon were stationed) when they surprised the British by landing in Kota Baru instead of Singapore. (The battery was part of the “Singapore fortress”, aimed at defending Singapore from a sea attack.)

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Petronas’ Rapid Project Progresses As Scheduled

April 25, 2012

Dateline 2012-04-05:

Petronas said today its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project, to be located in Pengerang, Johor, is progressing as scheduled.

In a statement, Petronas said RAPID’s proposed refinery would have a capacity of 300,000 barrels per standard day and it would supply feedstock for RAPID’s petrochemical complex as well as produce gasoline and diesel that meet European specifications.

The RAPID project aimed to capitalise on the growing need for speciality chemicals and to meet the demand for petroleum and commodity petrochemical products in the Asia Pacific region by 2016.

First announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on May 13, 2011, the project has achieved several important milestones in the past few months.

Following the announcement, a detailed feasibility study on the proposed project was undertaken and completed in October 2011, it said.

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Pengerang Gearing Up to Become Regional Oil Storage Hub

January 17, 2012

Dateline 2012-01-13:

 

Earmarked as an up- and-coming oil storage hub for Asia, Johor’s Pengerang is expected to see a step up in activities this year, with Malaysian companies led by Petronas committed to investing tens of billions of ringgit there.

 

A RM5 billion (S$2.05 billion) independent deepwater petroleum terminal (IDPT) project by a Dialog- Royal Vopak joint venture has already gotten off the ground, 5 per cent of the first phase completed as at December.

 

It will deliver an initial 1.3 million cubic metres (cbm) of storage with seven vessel berths when commissioned in 2014. The IDPT will offer five million cbm storage when fully completed over 10 years.

 

An integrated specialist technical services provider in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industry, Dialog has a 60-year exclusive mandate to develop the IDPT by the Johor state government which also has a stake in the project. Petronas is expected to be the terminal’s main client.

 

Pengerang has distinct advantages as an IDPT because its 24-metre deepwater jetty facilities can accommodate VLCCs and ULCCs, allowing tankers to collect or deliver crude oil without a costly buoy mooring system.

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