October 3, 2013
Dateline 2013-08-18, Borneo Post:
About 100 Penans from Long Meraan, Sg Magoh, in Ulu Baram, had set up blockades at five roads since Aug 7, to protest against the Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline project.
Friends of the Earth Malaysia (SAM) president SM Mohamed Idris claimed in a statement yesterday that the blockade was made following the failure of the company concerned to heed the plight of the people. It is also against the authorities for allegedly dishonouring their promises made to the Penans.
SAM quoted Long Meraan headman Belaweng Tunau as saying the laying of the pipelines had affected the villagers and environment negatively.
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June 12, 2013
Yes, there is an oil & gas angle, bear with me. Dateline 2013-05-26, FMT:
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The key to improving Sarawak’s socio-economic gap is to redefine the Pertroleum Act 1974.
More money for Sarawak is of course very attractive and indeed makes it sounds as if it’s the first solution to poverty woes.
However, it is pointless to lobby for more money if funds are siphoned away through the unknown channels of corruption
Fact is Sarawak and Sabah have paid more than their reasonable dues to the federal government.
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January 25, 2013
Didn’t they find oil onshore Kelantan a while back? Was it hushed up?
Ah, now I know where the Asam Paya field is.
Dateline 2013-01-19:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has made an onshore oil and gas discovery in Sarawak, the first after 24 years, after Asam Paya Field in 1989, also in Sarawak.
About 349 metres of net hydrocarbon thickness was found in the Adong Kecil West-1 well after Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and its joint-venture partner, JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Onshore Sarawak) Ltd, drilled the well in Block SK333, which is located about 20km northeast of Miri.
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December 9, 2012
Dateline 2012-11-26:
The technology company The Linde Group has received an order for a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant from Malaysia LNG Sdn. Bhd., a production subsidiary of Malaysia’s national oil and gas company PETRONAS. The new boil-off gas re-liquefaction facility has a maximum design capacity of 1,840 tons of LNG per day and will be located in the Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Professor Dr Aldo Belloni, member of the Executive Board of Linde AG, said: “This is the latest in a series of mid-scale LNG projects for Linde with particularly demanding technical features. We came off as winners in a highly competitive bidding process, reaffirming our design and engineering expertise and cost competitiveness in the growing natural gas liquefaction market.”
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September 7, 2012
Dateline 2012-08-20:
The state government will discuss the need to review the current 5% petroleum royalty paid to Sarawak with the federal government based on the prevailing close relationship and goodwill between both sides, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud said today.
Concurring that state leaders from both sides of the political divide had struck a common ground on the issue, he said, both sides needed to sit down and discuss the matter, especially following the recent announcement by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak that a special committee was being set up to study the petroleum royalty to East Coast states.
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June 20, 2012
Dateline 2012-06-1701:
In order to develop the rich natural gas fields beneath the South China Sea, offshore Malaysia, Petronas proposed the Sabah Sarawak Gas Pipeline. However, construction of the project has by no means been a small feat, with construction contractor Punj Lloyd overcoming undulating mountains, dense rainforests, and unrelenting wet weather.
Petronas’ plans to develop the gas fields offshore Sabah involves construction of the proposed Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) at Kimanis, which is scheduled for completion in 2013. Once operational, the terminal will be able to receive, store, and export up to 300,000 bbl/d of crude oil, as well as receive, process, compress, and transport up to 1.25 Bcf/d of gas produced from the Gumusut/Kakap, Kinabalu Deep and East, Kebabangan, and Malikai fields.
The 512 km, 36 inch diameter Sabah Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP) will transport 750 MMcf/d of gas from the SOGT to the Petronas LNG Complex at Bintulu, Sarawak. It is being constructed using API 5L X70 steel grade pipe, with a thickness range of 14, 17, and 20 mm, and will have a design pressure of 96 bar.
In 2008, Petronas awarded Punj Lloyd an engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning contract for the SSGP, which includes:
- Cathodic protection
- A launcher station at Kimanis
- A compressor station at Bintulu
- Metering stations at both Kimanis and Bintulu
- Intermediate pigging stations at Lawas, Long Lama, and Bintulu
- 22 block valve stations
- Six future tap-off points along the pipeline.
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April 17, 2012
Dateline 2012-03-28:
Malaysia’s Petronas and Total of France have signed a heads of agreement to jointly study the development and production of a high carbon dioxide gas field offshore Sarawak in eastern Malaysia, the state-owned oil and gas company said Wednesday.
The K5 gas field, discovered in 1970, is a sour gas field with an up to 70% carbon dioxide content. To develop and produce such a field requires extensive study and research, and if it results in the production of gas, K5 would be the first gas field with more than 50% carbon dioxide to be developed in Malaysia, Petronas said.
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March 14, 2012
For an engineer’s contest, doesn’t the client pay for submission of the bid?
Dateline 2012-02-23:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is asking engineers to compete for a contract to build a new liquefied natural gas train in Malaysia.
JGC Corp. will compete for the project against a joint partnership of Chiyoda Corp. and Saipem SpA, Malaysia’s state oil company said today in an e-mailed statement. Petrona plans to build a ninth train at its LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, increasing output capacity by 3.6 million tons a year, it said. The project is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2015.
The new train will require as much as 850 million standard cubic feet a day of natural gas coming from offshore fields near Sarawak, the company said.
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February 29, 2012
Dateline 2012-02-15:
Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s (Petronas) two new gas discoveries offshore Sarawak will continue to fuel the excitement for oil and gas investments in and around the state.
According to an analyst from AmResearch Sdn Bhd (AmResearch), while these new gas finds would need another three to five years of analysis and interpretation of seismic data before progressing to the initial development phase, this would certainly provide excitement to the industry here.
“Sarawak is a major state gas producer and exporter, with the country’s only liquefied natural gas plant located in Bintulu,” the analyst highlighted.
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October 30, 2010
Pouring oil on the fire, dateline 2010-10-19: Is it politically correct to bring out at this point that I need a work permit to ply my trade in Sabah and Sarawak?
DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua has claimed that Sabah and Sarawak will remain marginalised because most projects under Budget 2011 are for peninsular Malaysia.
Of 39 prominent projects stipulated in the Budget, Pua said only eight were based in the two states and that the value of all projects in the peninsula amounted to a massive RM109.74bil.
“In contrast, Sabah and Sarawak’s amounted to a meagre RM9.55bil or just 8% of the total value,” he told reporters at Parliament lobby.
Pua said in the oil and gas sector, Sabah and Sarawak had contributed 44.5% in terms of crude oil and 64.1% of natural gas production in 2007.
“Based on the Ninth Malaysia Plan mid-term review, the two states remained the poorest in the country. It is hard to imagine that it was only in 1970 when Sabah was the second richest state in the country.”
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