{"id":22568,"date":"2018-07-24T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22568"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T09:06:47","slug":"petros-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-venture-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22568","title":{"rendered":"Petros has nothing to do with the venture in Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Minister\u2019s Office (CMO) yesterday clarified that the reference to Petros by online portal Sarawak Report in its July 20 article has nothing to do with the state-owned petroleum company.<\/p>\n<p>The office, in a press statement, was referring to the article entitled \u2018Taib\u2019s Secret Interest in Sarawak\u2019s Petros Venture\u2019\u200b which has gone viral in many chat groups and the social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe statement wishes to clarify that Petros, the state oil company and co-regulator of the oil and gas industry in Sarawak, has nothing to do with the venture in Oman as alleged in the article\u200b&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There was a MoU signed but it had lapsed and it was merely an understanding for Petros to assist should the company intend to invest in Sarawak, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe CMO statement claimed\u200b that the article is only a speculation in an attempt to smear Petros\u2019 image for reasons only known to Sarawak Report\u200b.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22566\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image1-218x300.jpeg\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image1-218x300.jpeg 218w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image1-745x1024.jpeg 745w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image1.jpeg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Minister\u2019s Office (CMO) yesterday clarified that the reference to Petros by online portal Sarawak Report in its July 20 article has nothing to do with the state-owned petroleum company. The office, in a press statement, was referring to the article entitled \u2018Taib\u2019s Secret Interest in Sarawak\u2019s Petros Venture\u2019\u200b which has gone viral in many chat groups and the social media. \u200bThe statement wishes to clarify that Petros, the state oil company and co-regulator of the oil and gas industry in Sarawak, has nothing to do with the venture<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22568\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}