Myanmar

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April 09, 2024
Located offshore Myanmar, the Yadana natural gas field has produced roughly 6 Bcmg per year. 70% of the recovered resources are exported to Thailand.
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November 01, 2023
The curbs by the U.S. on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, or MOGE, prohibits Americans from the provision, exportation, or re-exportation of financial services, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of the company.
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January 26, 2023
The new Zawtika Development Project, located in the Gulf of Moattama in Myanmar, has entered its fourth phase of construction prior to final commissioning in 2025.
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April 05, 2021
French oil major Total SE must continue to produce gas in Myanmar and pay taxes to the military junta to protect staff from forced labor and maintain electricity supplies, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said in an op-ed in Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
News
October 18, 2019
The contract is expected to commence in the end of 2019, with an estimated duration of 154 days.
Article
March 2019
Houston, Myanmar still has an E&P problem
News
January 14, 2019
The need to fill new and old gas infrastructure will see the drilling of exciting offshore prospects across Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea.
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September 24, 2018
Total announces a successful appraisal of the A6 Block, Shwe Yee Htun-2 discovery, offshore Myanmar, completing a major step towards confirming a commercial project. The well was drilled to a final depth of 4,820 m and encountered 40 m of net gas pay in a high-quality reservoir.
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August 13, 2018
Vantage Oilfield Solutions Sdn Bhd (Vantage) has received a work order award from Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (Petronas Carigali) for the Provision of annulus wash and cementing assurance for Kepong-A field, Terengganu, Malaysia.
News
July 19, 2018
The world’s biggest oilfield-service companies may have finally found something to talk about beyond the U.S. shale boom.
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June 27, 2018
McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company, announced the award of a contract by POSCO DAEWOO Corp. for phase two of the Shwe gas field development offshore Western Myanmar.
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May 17, 2018
TCarta, a global provider of marine geospatial products, has delivered satellite derived bathymetry (SDB) to Total. Total will use the water-depth data for preparing seismic survey works off the coast of Myanmar.
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August 07, 2017
Woodside has advised that the Pyi Thit-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Southern Rakhine basin, located offshore Myanmar, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 65 m. A net gas pay interval of approximately 36 m has been interpreted within the primary target sandstone reservoir.
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May 02, 2017
Total has started up production from the Badamyar project, located offshore 220 km south of Yangon in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The project will enable an extension of the Yadana gas field’s 8 billion cu m per year production plateau beyond 2020.
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April 11, 2017
A crude pipeline to southwestern China through its neighbor Myanmar began operations after years of delays, allowing the world’s second-biggest oil user to receive supplies faster from the Middle East and Africa.
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February 12, 2016
Woodside’s Thalin-1A exploration well in Block AD-7, in the Rakhine basin, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 64 m.
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February 02, 2016
Interra Resources Limited, and its JV entity Goldpetrol Joint Operating Company Inc., has completed drilling development well YNG 3270 in Yenangyaung oil field in Myanmar.
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January 21, 2016
Polarcus is in the process of acquiring an ultra-wide 3D marine seismic project offshore Myanmar.
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January 04, 2016
Woodside has announced that the Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Rakhine basin, located in the western offshore area of Myanmar, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 129 m. Approximately 15 m of net gas pay is interpreted within the primary target interval.
News
September 08, 2015
Polarcus Ltd. has received a Letter of Award from Shell Myanmar Energy for a 3D marine seismic project offshore Myanmar.
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