Extractive Industries
Iran invited to oil, gas scene
Cambodia has invited Iran to examine the feasibility of developing the Kingdom’s existing oil blocks and requested that the republic conduct further oil and gas exploration studies. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/iran-invited-oil-gas-scene
An industry first as Canadian mineral exploration firm helps indigenous communities
Angkor Resources Corp., a Canadian company engaged in mineral and oil/gas exploration in the Kingdom, has reported that implementation of its industry-first, precedent-setting agreement with the indigenous Jarai communities in northeastern Cambodia is off to a ‘good start’. ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50977878/an-industry-first-as-canadian-mineral-exploration-firm-helps-indigenous-communities/
Mine, energy sector air snags
The far too frequent inspections of mining sites by the different sets of authorities and exceedingly high costs of the equipment required to supply electricity to mining- and energy-related businesses remain a couple of the predominant issues hobbling the sector. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mine-energy-sector-air-snags
Ministry denies abuse claims by ‘stolen’ tanker’s owners
The government has denied allegations of human rights violations against the crew of a tanker which left Cambodian waters with a cargo of oil. It said the vessel’s master had already been jailed by Indonesian authorities and it wanted the crew extradited to face charges ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50945151/ministry-denies-abuse-claims-by-stolen-tankers-owners-2/
Cambodia claims entire ownership of stolen crude oil loaded on MT Strovolos
Ministry of Mines and Energy has claimed that the stolen $21 million crude oil on MT Strovolos legally belongs to Cambodia, denying the news and declarations of owners and managers of the vessel. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50945269/cambodia-claims-entire-ownership-of-stolen-crude-oil-loaded-on-mt-strovolos/
Ministry sets the record straight on MT Strovolos and her crew
THE “theft and/or misappropriation” of some 295,000 barrels of crude oil belonging to Cambodia by the owners, managers and crew of a tanker – detained by Indonesian authorities in July – and their accomplices “constitute criminal acts pursuant to the relevant Cambodian laws”. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ministry-sets-record-straight-mt-strovolos-and-her-crew
Okvau produces 522kg of gold ore: official
The Okvau Gold Project in southwestern Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district has produced 522kg of gold ore as of September 23 since the first gold pour in June, according to Ministry of Mines and Energy director-general for Mineral Resources Ung Dipola. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/okvau-produces-522kg-gold-ore-official
Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) acquires metal mining license in Memot district
Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Limited, based in Australia, has obtained a search and explore license of 107.10 square kilometers of metal mining in Memot district, Tbong Khmum province. According to a senior official of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.postkhmer.com/business/2021-09-16-1136-223687.html
Kuoy families in Preah Vihear worry over land issue
More than 250 indigenous Kuoy families in Preah Vihear province have refused to accept compensation from a gold mining company that has offered them just $500 per hectare of land. ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50929763/kuoy-families-in-preah-vihear-worry-over-land-issue/
Energy Ministry demands return of ‘stolen’ Cambodian oil
The Cambodian government says it is taking legal action against the owners or charterers and the managers of a tanker containing 300,000 barrels of oil, which it says belong to the Kingdom. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50928950/energy-ministry-demands-return-of-stolen-cambodian-oil/
Indonesian navy seizes tanker wanted in Cambodia oil heist
Indonesia’s navy on August 25 said it has seized a tanker and its crew who were wanted on charges of stealing nearly 300,000 barrels of crude oil from Cambodia’s reserves. ...
AFP
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/indonesian-navy-seizes-tanker-wanted-cambodia-oil-heist
Cambodia sends first gold ore shipment abroad for purification
Renaissance Minerals Cambodia Limited has begun shipping gold ore from its industrial gold mine exploration in the Okvau region of Keo Seima district in Mondulkiri province abroad for additional refining. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918936/cambodia-sends-first-gold-ore-shipment-abroad-for-purification/
Disused stone quarry shut due to residual chemicals
Bati district authorities in Takeo province have called on the public to avoid visiting a stone quarry on Chambab Mountain in Tnort commune as the pit is contaminated with chemical residue from trinitrotoluene (TNT) used to break up rocks. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disused-stone-quarry-shut-due-residual-chemicals
Cambodia has proposed that Russian energy investors tap nation’s oil
Cambodia is turning to Russian investors after Singapore’s KrisEnergy abandoned the only operational offshore oil block in the Kingdom’s waters. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50907951/cambodia-has-proposed-that-russian-energy-investors-tap-nations-oil/
Kingdom produces 137kg of gold dore bars
Australian miner Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd has produced 137kg dore bars with 90 per cent gold solution, in just over a month since it kicked off commercial operations of its flagship gold mine in northeastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province, according to Prime Minister Hun Sen on ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-produces-137kg-gold-dore-bars
Focus shifts to onshore oil and gold mining as offshore exploration stumbles
The Kingdom has a golden future in spite of the crude reality that there may be no more oil extracted from its waters in the near term, according to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50907152/focus-shifts-to-onshore-oil-and-gold-mining-as-offshore-exploration-stumbles/
Cambodia’s first ever crude oil venture a failure but opportunities remain, says Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that Cambodia’s first oil and gas industry, announced on December 29 failed to meet expected volume and thus failed. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906565/cambodias-first-ever-crude-oil-venture-a-failure-but-opportunities-remain-says-hun-sen/
US orders seizure of illegal oil tanker bound for North Korea that was detained by Cambodia
The United States Department of Justice has ordered the confiscation of a Singaporean oil tanker that it alleges was used for illegal oil shipments to North Korea, which is currently being held in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50905550/us-orders-seizure-of-illegal-oil-tanker-bound-for-north-korea-that-was-detained-by-cambodia/
Six people arrested for operating illegal marble mining
Stung Treng authorities have cracked down on illegal marble mining and arrested six people in Thala Boriwat district. ...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50900965/six-people-arrested-for-operating-illegal-marble-mining/
First commercial gold mine online
Australian miner Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd on June 21 began the commercial operation of its $120 million Okvau Gold Project in the northeastern province of Mondulkiri, becoming the Kingdom’s first gold producer. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/first-commercial-gold-mine-online
Mondulkiri gold mine gets go ahead despite environmental risks
Fears that history may repeat itself and lead to yet more contamination of Cambodia’s rivers has been offset by the estimated $40 million the government will receive annually from Renaissance Minerals. ...
Phoung Vantha
https://cambodianess.com/article/mondulkiri-gold-mine-gets-go-ahead-despite-environmental-risks
Kingdom’s oil dreams live on even after driller files for liquidation
KrisEnergy Ltd, the operator of the Apsara oil field development offshore Cambodia, has confirmed that all operations of its subsidiary in Cambodia, KrisEnergy (Cambodia) Ltd, will continue as normal, despite its parent company filing for liquidation on June 4, according to a senior official of ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdoms-oil-dreams-live-even-after-driller-files-liquidation
Kingdom gets over $21M in fees, royalties from mining sector
Cambodia generated more than $21 million in non-fiscal revenue from the mining sector in 2020, up slightly from the previous year. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-gets-over-21m-fees-royalties-mining-sector
First crude oil shipment due this month
Singapore-based KrisEnergy will make its first shipment of crude oil to international markets this month with a batch of up to 300,000 barrels, according to Cheap Sour, director-general of Petroleum at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50859589/first-crude-oil-shipment-due-this-month/