The Cambodian government estimates that U.S. oil giant Chevron will be able to recover 15 to 20 percent of the estimated 500 million barrels of oil in its offshore exploration block, starting in 2011, national media said on Friday.
Engineering plans for how to extract the oil and get it to shore, as well as details of Chevron's commercial terms, are still being worked out, Te Duong Tara, secretary general of the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority (CNPA), told English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodian Daily at an industry seminar hereon Thursday.
Chevron, which along with minority partners Mitsubishi and GS Caltex controls off-sea Block A, has remained mum about the size of its find and when and if it will commence commercial exploration.
Chevron signed a revenue-sharing agreement with the Cambodian government in 2003, the terms of which are now under renewed negotiations.
Some dozen foreign drillers are now searching for oil and natural gas in six defined blocks in off-sea Cambodia.
Chevron once claimed it had found the resource in its test wells, while other drillers still remained silent.
Experts used to put the potential reserves of oil in offshore Cambodia at two billion barrels, but the Cambodian government usually appeared unsure of various estimates.
Source: Xinhua
Engineering plans for how to extract the oil and get it to shore, as well as details of Chevron's commercial terms, are still being worked out, Te Duong Tara, secretary general of the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority (CNPA), told English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodian Daily at an industry seminar hereon Thursday.
Chevron, which along with minority partners Mitsubishi and GS Caltex controls off-sea Block A, has remained mum about the size of its find and when and if it will commence commercial exploration.
Chevron signed a revenue-sharing agreement with the Cambodian government in 2003, the terms of which are now under renewed negotiations.
Some dozen foreign drillers are now searching for oil and natural gas in six defined blocks in off-sea Cambodia.
Chevron once claimed it had found the resource in its test wells, while other drillers still remained silent.
Experts used to put the potential reserves of oil in offshore Cambodia at two billion barrels, but the Cambodian government usually appeared unsure of various estimates.
Source: Xinhua
3 comments:
"Chevron, which along with minority partners Mitsubishi and GS Caltex controls off-sea Block A, has remained mum about the size of its find and when and if it will commence commercial exploration."
This is not a good sign for us. It could mean what they found so far might not worth going after. Thus, the decision "to go or not to go" often take a long time. They may need more data and so on.
they want this to be a sound development for cambodia. this is why it will take times to plan for this kind of project as it is not that easy to get start, although the oil resources are out there in cambodia's water. i'm very optimistic about it and do allow the experts to do their work with careful planning. it will be great for future of cambodia as oil producing country.
I hope you're right, and I try to be optimistic and all, but I don't like to raise any hope at this point.
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