{"id":55236,"date":"2015-07-12T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T09:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55236"},"modified":"2015-07-12T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T09:34:44","slug":"provincial-govt-plans-to-bring-north-borneo-gas-oil-to-southern-palawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/12\/provincial-govt-plans-to-bring-north-borneo-gas-oil-to-southern-palawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial gov’t plans to bring North Borneo gas & oil to Southern Palawan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PUERTO PRINCESA CITY — The Palawan government is exploring the possibility of bringing the North Borneo oil and gas to the southern part of the province through an underwater pipeline that would cost around USD 250-million dollars to construct, according to Governor Jose Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Alvarez disclosed this Friday during the Joint Energy Development Advisory Group\u2019s (JEDAG) \u201cPalawan Current Power Situation Forum\u201d held at the VJR, Provincial Capitol Building.<\/p>\n

The governor said he was due to fly to the tip of Borneo, the third largest island in the world in the Greater Sunda Islands archipelago, through the channel from the southernmost tip of Palawan as part of the provincial government\u2019s exploration of the possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will fly to the tip of Borneo; cross the channel from the southernmost tip of Palawan because I am exploring the possibility of bringing North Borneo (oil and) gas to southern Palawan,\u201d he said to attendees of the forum that included Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron, former Department of Energy (DOE) secretary Jericho Petilla, OIC Sec. Zenaida Monsada, and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Per initial knowledge, he said, bringing North Borneo\u2019s petroleum product to, either Buliluyan, Bataraza, or Brooke\u2019s Point in southern Palawan, would be possible through a 172-km. underwater network of pipelines that would cost around USD250 million at USD 1.5 million per kilometer to construct.<\/p>\n

The pipeline, he said, would start the CNG that might be transported above the water via the \u201cRoll On, Roll Off\u201d (RORO) sea linkage at maybe 30-40 ISO or intermodal containers not only in Palawan but other provinces.<\/p>\n

He said the provincial government was seriously mulling over this as he was worried that if he does not proceed, Del Monte Foods, Inc. (DMFI) would not pursue its USD 250-million investment in southern Palawan if not given a stable power supply it required in the next 12-24 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am worried that Del Monte will not proceed with their USD 250-million investment if I do not sign that I am going to give them power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Alvarez said that DMFI\u2019s investment was going to produce fresh pineapples and bananas.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that he just came from Malaysia \u201cto sign an agreement for the purchase of CNG in the meantime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what they are (asking) me? Why are you buying from us, you have so much in southern Palawan? So, maybe later on, when there is a chance I can talk to (former) secretary Petilla and Acting Sec. Monsada on how to go about,\u201d Alvarez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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