Offshore vessel services (OVS) firm Wintermar Offshore Marine is seeking to expand to other Southeast Asian countries to cope with the decline in oil and gas activities in Indonesia, the company’s executive has said. President director Sugiman Layanto said that his company was exploring the opportunity to operate in Myanmar, Vietnam and Brunei Darussalam to […]
ConocoPhillips and Statoil sign deal for deepwater block
Norway’s Statoil and US-based ConocoPhillips will invest more than US$300 million in the exploration and production of offshore oil and gas in Myanmar, according to an official from the Ministry of Energy (MOE). The two international oil companies signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for deepwater block AD-10, located off Myanmar’s Rakhine coast, on April […]
Myanmar Awards Offshore Oil and Gas Deals to Foreign Firms
YANGON — Myanmar’s Ministry of Energy on Wednesday announced that it has awarded international firms, mostly from Western nations, 20 areas in its waters to explore for oil and gas. The government has invited international firms to come in and help bolster state revenues by tapping into Myanmar’s oil and gas reserves, and large multinationals […]
Energy giants win Myanmar offshore oil and gas blocks
YANGON: Myanmar named energy giants Chevron, Shell and Total among the winners Wednesday of a landmark auction of offshore oil and gas exploration rights, pinning hope on its natural resources to drive economic growth. The country, left impoverished by nearly five decades of isolation under military rule, has been the subject of feverish interest by […]
Myanmar Offshore Oil & Gas Tender Winner List
Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list The Government of The Republic of The Union of Myanmar Ministry of Energy Dated: 26th March, 2014 Selected Candidates and Related Blocks for Myanmar Offshore Blocks Bidding Round-2013 The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar hereby announce that the following companies are chosen […]
2014 Promises to Be a Boom Year for Myanmar’s Gas and Oil Industry
Myanmar will be the focus of attention in the international oil and gas industry in 2014 as a batch of major offshore exploration licenses are awarded and more blocks are expected to be put up for foreign bidding. Against that background, Myanmar is to host two major international oil industry exhibitions in Yangon to attract […]