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Chinese, Myanmar firms ink petroleum deal
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-09-04 09:59
A Chinese oil company and a state-run Myanmar oil company reached a
production-sharing contract here Friday on cooperation in petroleum exploration.
Under the contract, signed between the Dian-Qian-Gui Petroleum Exploration
Bureau of SINOPEC of China and the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, petroleum
exploration will be carried out at Block D, an onshore block in Myanmar's
western Rakhine state.
The onshore block covers about 12,000 square-kilometers.
With 19 onshore and three main large offshore oil and gas fields, Myanmar
possesses 3.2 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil reserve in the offshore
and onshore areas, according to official statistics.
The statistics also show that Myanmar produced 7.2 million barrels of crude
oil in 2003. Gas export during the year earned US$655 million, while crude oil
import worth US$27.85 million the same year.
Since Myanmar opened to foreign investment in late 1988, such investment in
the sector had reached US$2.5 billion as of the end of 2003, the figures also
reveal. Foreign oil companies engaged in the oil and gas sector also mainly
include those from Britain, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia and
Canada.
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