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The South China Sea mess – BlackGold
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The South China Sea mess. June 30, 2016. July 3, 2016. Reuters reported that The Hague will make a ruling soon. With regards to the disputed South China Sea region involving China and multiple Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia. Apparently the arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines will deliver its decision on July 12th. Thing is, the Philippines’ claim over the disputed area overlaps with Vietnam’s, Indonesia’s and Malaysia’s claim too. There is so much China c...
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April 2016 – BlackGold
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April 21, 2016. Petronas has released a statement about their Canadian LNG project probably because the speculative nature of the press reports from the past months that Petronas is considering walking away from the project. Then there is the problem of the number of media outlets reporting about all the opposition and negative reaction to the project, not … More Petronas Canadian LNG. Petronas Chemicals’ elastomers project cancelled. April 17, 2016. Petronas Chemicals’ elastomers project cancelled.
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Random: Resuming life – BlackGold
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August 5, 2016. I am back from a long break after the Eid holidays and the work that has been piling up these past couple of weeks have cleared up a bit. So I now have a bit of free time to pursue some hobbies including reading up on happenings around the globe. The problem is, just as work piled up in my absence, so did my alerts mailing lists which had accumulated to over 300 notices over the fortnight. Let’s not even begin with my tlist over at twitter. I won’t even go into the details of the st...
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TI – BlackGold
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July 13, 2016. July 13, 2016. Someone emailed me a link to a report by The Edge Markets about Transparency Internationals’ latest report on their assessment of emerging markets largest multinationals. He said that he thought it was interesting so I had a read through. Then of course I just had to follow up with all the related reports to get an overall perspective of the issue that was brought up by The Edge and TI Malaysia. These reports are relevant reads if you are interested:. I do not have access to...
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Decentralising Oil&Gas – BlackGold
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June 28, 2016. Apparently TS James Masing, the Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, is confident that Sarawak companies can takeover whatever Petronas is doing in Sarawak. TS Masing was more or less saying that Sarawak has lots of reserves, of which Petronas is not doing anything with it, so they were going to mine it themselves. Even if Sarawak has endless depths of petroleum and LNG, do we want Sarawak flooding the market and creating another glut that will rock the sector, push prices down and make all t...
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July 2016 – BlackGold
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July 13, 2016. Someone emailed me a link to a report by The Edge Markets about Transparency Internationals’ latest report on their assessment of emerging markets largest multinationals. He said that he thought it was interesting so I had a read through. Then of course I just had to follow up with all the related reports to get … More TI. July 3, 2016. Oil and Gas Post. Oil and Gas Company Analysis - Evaluate Energy Blog. ExxonMobil's Perspectives BlogExxonMobil's Perspectives Blog. Shale Markets, LLC.
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BlackGold – Page 2
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Russia – China – India. June 20, 2016. Vladimir Putin is considering selling part of Russia’s corporate crown jewels to China and India as the president struggles to meet spending commitments before his possible re-election bid in less than two years. Source : Bloomberg The oil price crises of the recent months had been the background for India’s rising demand for oil while … More Russia – China – India. Russia – China – India. June 16, 2016. June 4, 2016. May 29, 2016. Bloomberg reported that the number...
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Petronas and Sarawak – BlackGold
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August 28, 2016. August 28, 2016. The goings-on between the Sarawak state government and Petronas was kinda humorous if you ask me. I have been rather hesitant about writing anything about it as it is something that I have very little knowledge of. So when it was reported that matters have been settled and that the Sarawak state government have gotten what they wanted, I put in a little reading to find out what really happened. Sarawak agrees on 7 points in meeting with Putrajaya, Petronas. Let’s h...
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May 2016 – BlackGold
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May 29, 2016. Bloomberg reported that the number of jobs created in the solar energy business grew 12 times faster than overall job creation in the US and surpassed those in the oil and gas sector for the first time last year. About 8.1 million people worldwide had jobs in the solar energy sector in 2015, up from … More Solar vs O&G. Personally … week in passing. May 19, 2016. Personally … week in passing. Petronas’ Canada LNG project has more support than it is made out to be. May 7, 2016. May 3, 2016.
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January 2016 – BlackGold
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Impact of O&G to other industries. January 17, 2016. The crude oil prices slump is not just a matter of less funds going into the government coffers in the forms of taxes or dividends in the case of national oil companies like Petronas, it also has ripple effect that impact on other industries, and ultimately the economy overall. In Malaysia, the squeeze felt by … More Impact of O&G to other industries. Impact of O&G to other industries. More bad news for O&G workers. January 9, 2016. January 1, 2016.
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