July 8, 2016
Dateline 2016-06-10, Borneo Post:
There is an increasing number of Sarawakians being employed by Petronas in line with the company’s expansion of the upstream sector in the state.
Assistant Minister for Industrial Development (Investment and Promotion) Datuk Julaihi Narawi, said Petronas was commited to developing human capital and gave priority to the locals.
He told the State Legislative Assembly yesterday that the number of employees in the upstream sector in the state had increased by 10 per cent to 4,400 this year, compared to 4,000 in 2015.
From the 4,400 employess 71 per cent were Sarawakians, he said, adding that 313 were Sarawakians from the increased figure of 400 this year.
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January 16, 2016
Dateline 2015-12-09, The Rakyat Post:
As of Jan 1, this year, 47% of the total discovered petroleum resources in Malaysia is from Sarawak.
In replying to Aidel Lariwoo (BN-Sadong Jaya), state Industrial Development assistant Minister Datuk Julaihi Narawi said based on the numbers given by Petronas, the crude oil resources is expected to last another 25 years, while natural gas will last for another 37 years.
“Currently the state government studying a strategic plan for the future development of Sarawak’s oil and gas industry but it is still ongoing and premature for me to comment at this point of time,” said Julaihi during the question and answer session of the Sarawak state legislative assembly here, today.
Julaihi also said the state has formed the Sarawak Oil and Gas Committee comprising members who have vast experience in the industry to assist the state in charting its future direction.
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December 26, 2015
Dateline 2015-11-22, TMI:
Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has a strong presence in Sarawak, with total cumulative investment of over RM300 billion in the upstream, midstream and downstream projects and activities, said LNG Group of Companies vice-president and chief executive officer (CEO) Dzafri Sham Ahmad.
He said for upstream, there were 60 oil and gas producing fields – 26 oil and 34 gas – producing an average of 850 kilo barrel oil equivalent per day (kboe/d).
“Additionally there are another 206 discovered fields which are yet to be monetised,” he said at the Petronas Media Nite 2015 in Kuching last night.
He said for midstream there were three facilities – Petronas LNG Complex in Bintulu; Petronas Train 9 project; and, the floating LNG facility.
For downstream, he said, there were currently two operating units in the state — Asean Bintulu Fertiliser plant which produced 0.6 million tonnes per annum (MPTA) of urea, making it Asia’s largest granular urea plant and 0.4 MTPA of ammonia.
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August 29, 2015
Dateline 2015-07-20, Borneo Post:
The state government has approved the setting up of a Sarawak Oil and Gas Committee to monitor the involvement of local entrepreneurs in the oil and gas industry.
Assistant Minister for Industrial Development (Investment and Promotion) Datuk Julaihi Narawi said the state cabinet gave its nod last month, and Minister of Industrial Development Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan would chair its first meeting soon. At the same time, he revealed that his ministry will have a new unit – Oil and Gas Unit.
“This committee is formed to monitor the involvement of local players in the oil and gas industry. This is because Sarawak has many industry players in the sector and we want them to play a more active role in the industry compared to before,” he said when met at his Hari Raya open house at his home at Taman Heritage here yesterday.
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August 9, 2015
Dateline 2015-07-06, TMI:
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plants are unsuitable for Sabah, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
“Clearly, Sabah does not produce as much LNG as Sarawak, which has more of it and less oil.
“So an LNG plant in Sabah, such as the one operated by Petronas Bintulu, is not suitable. Sabah in any case has more oil than LNG,” Musa (pic, right) told the Sabah state assembly today.
He was replying to a question by Mohamad Alamin (BN-Bongawan), on why LNG plants were not being built in Sabah, during the First Supplementary Supply Bill 2015 debate.
Musa, who is also Sabah finance minister, said the LNG produced in Sabah would be channelled via the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal in Kimanis through the Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline to Bintulu’s LNG plant.
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July 19, 2015
Interesting, would you say? And the article doesn’t introduce Harris (tsk, tsk).
Dateline 2015-06-08, Daily Express
It is time for the Petroleum Act to be abolished and replaced by Petroleum Enactments in Sabah and Sarawak that provides for the two East Malaysian states to take over the ownership and control of all oil and gas.
Harris said the two states can from their respective organisations to undertake the exploration and development of oil and gas.
“The Federal Government’s revenue from oil and gas can come from the income tax from these state organisations. This move would streamline the Federal policy on the management of assets found in individual states, such as timber and land,” he said.
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February 28, 2015
Dateline 2014-12-11, Free Malaysia Today:
The Opposition wants to know why Sabah is being given stakes in Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) in the oil and gas industry and Sarawak being given “the short-end of the stick”.
“Sabah has done better than Sarawak in asking for PSCs,” said Batu Lintang Assemblyman See Chee How in a statement implicitly criticizing Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem for his weak leadership on the issue. “We are getting a raw deal.”
“Sabah has entered into upstream petroleum development.”
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December 25, 2014
Don’t you just love the tafseers and parsing taking place when certain phrases are “quoted”?
Dateline 2014-10-20, The Malaysian Insider:
The chances of Sarawak getting an increase in the oil and gas royalty payment is less likely after two rounds of talks with Petronas is said to have reached a stalemate.
Sources close to the state administration claimed the oil and gas company had reportedly balked at the state’s request to raise the royalty, from 5% to 20%, after both parties failed to agree on the quantum.
The Malaysian Insider learnt that negotiations with Petronas was “heavy going” and the company had given a “myriad of reasons” why it was refusing to meet the 20% request.
The source said a dispute on how the payment quantum should be calculated was also a hurdle too difficult to surmount at the talks.
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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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September 6, 2014
Oo, Perkasa is an ‘extremist fringe group’. This comment is made by a group that doesn’t feel safe enough to operate in Malaysia.
Dateline 2014-06-27, FMT:
The UK-based Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BoPIM), a human rights organisation on Sabah, Sarawak rights issues, has expressed dismay that the national oil corporation Petronas and an extremist fringe group in the corridors of power are engaged in a war of words over who owns the country’s oil and gas resources.
“There are no two ways about it,” said BoPIM President Daniel John Jambun in a telephone call to FMT in Kota Kinabalu. “The oil and gas reserves in the country belong, by and large, to the people of Sabah and Sarawak and no one in the peninsula should imagine that it belongs exclusively to their community.”
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