{"id":19426,"date":"2017-09-14T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19426"},"modified":"2017-09-14T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:32:19","slug":"tiang-petros-will-not-be-apartner-of-petronas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19426","title":{"rendered":"Tiang: Petros will not be a&#8221;partner&#8221; of Petronas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tiang, the political secretary to the Chief Minister of Sarawak released a press statement today to concur and support the Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari&#8217;s earlier stand that Petros will not be a&#8221;partner&#8221; of the national petroleum company Petronas, but to enjoy own rights to conduct fuel explorations within its territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang said, Sarawak&#8217;s boundaries were clearly determined in the Sarawak (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1954 by the Queen in Council, and the restriction of 3 nautical miles as stipulated by the Sea Territorial Act 2012 was unconstitutional, as the same Act was passed without the consent of Sarawak legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang emphasized that today Sarawak is the rightful owner of the territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles, and shall therefore enjoy the absolute rights to explore fossil fuel and gas within its own territorial waters. Tiang also suggested that Sarawak government should consider to enact and table a new Sarawak Petroleum Ordinance to stipulate that no oil and gas exploration within Sarawak territorial waters without obtaining permits from The Sarawak Government. The new Ordinance should also give exclusive oil and gas exploration rights in Sarawak territories to Petros, the oil and gas company wholly owned by the Sarawak government, so as to replace Petronas which monopolised the oil and gas upstream industry in Sarawak for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang also expressed his disagreement over the claims made by Petronas that the national company shall continue to enjoy exclusive rights to do oil and gas exploration in Sarawak by virtue of the Petroleum Development Act 1974. He explained in his press statement that it is trite in the Federal Constitution that any alteration of any State&#8217;s boundaries by the parliament, the consent of such State legislature in concerned must be obtained before any alteration affecting the State can be passed. However such consent was never obtained from the Sarawak Legislature when the 1974 Act was passed in the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless , Tiang added that Sarawak will continue to welcome Petronas to participate in oil and gas exploration in Sarawak by joining Petros as a partner or a contractor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19427\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed12.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed12.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed12-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tiang, the political secretary to the Chief Minister of Sarawak released a press statement today to concur and support the Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari&#8217;s earlier stand that Petros will not be a&#8221;partner&#8221; of the national petroleum company Petronas, but to enjoy own rights to conduct fuel explorations within its territorial waters. Tiang said, Sarawak&#8217;s boundaries were clearly determined in the Sarawak (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1954 by the Queen in Council, and the restriction of 3 nautical miles as stipulated by the Sea Territorial Act 2012 was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19426\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19428,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19426\/revisions\/19428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}