SARAWAK Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said yesterday, the state government was looking to conduct oil and gas exploration activities in the state’s northern most district Lawas via Petroleum Sarawak (Petros), Bernama news agency reported.
It was learnt that Abang Johari was informed by experts in the oil and gas industry of the existence of unexplored oil and gas reserves in the district as well as its neighbouring area, Limbang.
“That is what we are searching for. We will leave it to Petros to study the oil and gas underneath (whether it can generate a new income for Sarawak),” he said when opening the Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB) Northern Zone Special Convention in Miri.
He told the media, there was a great potential for northern Sarawak and there was a proposal to build a RM20.8 billion worth oil refinery in Lawas.
The project, he said, would be a stepping stone for other developments in the northern area and to boost the state economy as a whole when it became a reality in 2022. – Sept 6, 2020
