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RDP ===== KUALA LUMPUR Published May 30, 2003 Oil firms caught in border dispute Malaysia and Brunei claim ownership of oil-rich maritime site off Sabah INTERNATIONAL oil companies are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a maritime border dispute between Malaysia and its neighbour Brunei, oil industry sources said yesterday. Sources in Brunei, who requested anonymity, said that during the past few weeks a Malaysian patrol vessel had chased off a French oil company's team carrying out exploration work in the disputed deep water area. Wedged between the two East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, Brunei, with a population of just 330,000 people, has been careful to keep relations friendly with its far bigger neighbour. Brunei's ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad discussed the dispute during talks in Penang last weekend. 'That was an annual meeting between them and there were other matters which both leaders were interested in . . . such as the exploitation of maritime resources in that area,' Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar was quoted as saying by local media after the meeting. That fleeting reference was the only public acknowledgement of a dispute that oil companies have known about for months. 'There is without any question a dispute over ownership of the zone,' one oil industry official told Reuters. In January, it became clear there were conflicting views over where the boundaries lay when Malaysian state oil firm Petronas signed a production-sharing contract with Murphy Oil Corp in an oil exploration block off Sabah that overlapped a block Brunei awarded to TotalFinaElf a year earlier. BHP Billiton and Amerada Hess are part of the Total joint venture. Later, Murphy announced it had made a 'very significant oil discovery' in an adjoining block, and put preliminary estimates on the recoverable reserves in the Kikeh oil field at between 400 million and 700 million barrels. A Total official said he did not want to comment on the dispute, and diplomats described it as a 'delicate situation'. - Reuters --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit IAGI Website: http://iagi.or.id IAGI-net Archive 1: http://www.mail-archive.com/iagi-net%40iagi.or.id/ IAGI-net Archive 2: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iagi Komisi Sedimentologi (FOSI) : F. Hasan Sidi([EMAIL PROTECTED])-http://fosi.iagi.or.id Komisi SDM/Pendidikan : Edy Sunardi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Komisi Karst : Hanang Samodra([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Komisi Sertifikasi : M. Suryowibowo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Komisi OTODA : Ridwan Djamaluddin([EMAIL PROTECTED] atau [EMAIL PROTECTED]), Arif Zardi Dahlius([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Komisi Database Geologi : Aria A. Mulhadiono([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
