Off-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction

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. ...

Cambodia is turning to Russian investors after Singapore’s KrisEnergy abandoned the only operational offshore oil block in the Kingdom’s waters. ...

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.​ ...

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 ...

As KrisEenergy struggles to stay afloat, reports of investor “vultures” targeting purchasing the company’s assets have appeared, while the local government remains cautiously optimistic about the conundrum, noting that operations in the Khmer Basin are still “running smoothly”. ...

KrisEnergy’s oil production dreams in the Khmer Basin appear to be dead in the water after the oil and gas company revealed it was not able to form a viable debt restructuring plan and will lose its revolving line of credit from Singapore-based DBS Bank. ...

KrisEnergy has warned that its current production rate at Cambodia’s Apsara offshore oil block has yielded only around half the company’s projected peak rate, and it has extended debt repayment deadlines and brought in an engineering firm to assess the situation amid “material uncertainty ...

As the global price of oil craters amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore-based KrisEnergy Ltd remains on track to extract the first drop of oil in the first half of this year, said a Ministry of Mines and Energy senior official. ...

The government and Canadian firm EnerCam Co will soon sign an oil exploration agreement for Block VIII in Preah Sihanouk province, a senior official at the General Department of Petroleum said on Monday. ...

Singaporean oil and gas company KrisEnergy has decided to give up one of its oil exploration blocks in Vietnam to focus on its operations in Cambodia. ...

Chinese-owned Cambodian Resources Energy Development Co Ltd has been granted a three-year exploration licence in the Gulf of Thailand’s Block D, off the coast of Cambodia, a senior official at the General Department of Petroleum told The Post on Thursday. ...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy signed  a petroleum agreement with Cambodia Resources Energy Development Co on exploration of the offshore Block D oilfield. “Signing the agreement allows the company to conduct studies and search for oil in Block D,” Cheap Sour, director-general of Petroleum ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday confirmed that Cambodia will extract the first drop of oil from the Apsara oilfield in Cambodia’s offshore Block A by mid-2020. ...

Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy Ltd, which operates Cambodia’s Block A offshore oil development project, has started a 3D seismic survey in the area, a company press release said on Tuesday. It announced the commencement of a 1,200sqkm survey in the offshore Cambodia Block A concession, where ...

Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy Ltd, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, claims it will be able to meet its schedule to extract its first drop of oil late this year. The firm has actively prepared all necessary facilities for the production, Ministry of Mines and Energy ...

Cambodia-focused mineral exploration company Angkor Gold is actively pursuing oil and gas opportunities in Cambodia in addition to its current roster of mineral exploration projects. The Canadian-listed explorer has been in operation in the Asian nation since 2012, closing 10 deals with a combined value of US$19.50 million within ...

Singapore-based KrisEnergy, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, has awarded a $21.7 million contract to Keppel Shipyard Ltd for the Kingdom’s oil development, its press release issued on Friday said. KrisEnergy announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SJ Production Barge Ltd, has contracted Keppel Shipyard Ltd ...

Singapore-based firm KrisEnergy, which operates Cambodia’s offshore Block A, is now reviewing bids submitted by contractors for integrated drilling services and a facilities platform. They were submitted during the second quarter. ...

With the first drop of crude oil from the Apsara oilfield expected by next year, officials gathered on Thursday to discuss the much-awaited law on petroleum. Representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Justice were ...

A Chinese-based oil exploration company and a Canadian partner have entered into preliminary negotiations with the government to obtain an exploration license in Block D in the Gulf of Thailand, according to a government spokesman. ...