Location of license sites

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Oil and Gas in Cambodia What is known?

• Location of license sites
• Companies involved in exploration and production
• Relevant government agencies

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Offshore Licenses
Cambodia off-shore blocks
Overlapping Claims Area
Block E Medco Energi 90 JHL Petroleum 10

Block D Kensteel Energy Slumberger
Sihanoukville
Block A Chevron 65, Mitsui 30, GS Caltex 15
Block B Singapore Petroleum Company 30 PTTEP
30 RPL 30 Cooper Energy CCOP Total ??
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Onshore Licenses
Block X11 Suo Ching Industry



Overlapping Claims Area
.


Sihanoukville
?
?
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Reserve Estimates

• Block A
• 400 million barrels crude oil
• 3 trillion ft3 gas
• Overlapping Claims Area
• 11 trillion ft3 gas
• 10 times bigger than Block A (CNPA)

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Government Agencies

• Cambodia National Petroleum Authority
• Formed in 1998, chaired by Sok An
• Directly under Prime Minister
• Manage development of petroleum industry
• Provide legislative framework
• Support exploration
• Pursue foreign investment
• Ministry of Economics and Finance
• Responsible for customs and tax

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Still Unknown..

• Contract details
• Government revenue levels suggestions of 1.7
  billion USD per year just from Block A beginning
  2009
• Government regulatory framework development of a
  Petroleum Act?
• Infrastructure development refinery (China
  national Chemical Engineering Group, 420 mil USD
  plant)

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Issues

• Resource Revenue Management
• Government and Industry Transparency and
  Accountability
• The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease
• Social and Environmental Impacts
• Infrastructure and supporting industries
• Pollution and spills
• Fishing grounds
• Employment

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CSO Engagement

• Capacity to gather right information through
  formal and informal channels, and analyze and
  translate material for public, media and
  policymakers
• Building and maintaining effective advocacy
  positions
• Working with the media
• Engaging public officials to move in the
  direction of civil societys agenda

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CSO Examples

• Chad
• Civil society representatives on the committee
  for monitoring oil revenues
• Civil society role in information analysis and
  dissemination
• Mauritania
• Oil revenue committee with CSO members
• Sao Tome e Principe
• National Forum to inform citizens about impacts
  from oil and to seek advice on expenditures
• Timor Leste
• Consultations with CSOs during development of oil
  revenue management legislation

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LARGE SCALE MINING IN CAMBODIA
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LARGE SCALE MINING IN CAMBODIA
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BATTLE MOUNTAIN Gold
LIBERTY MINING Gold
Large-Scale Extractive Industries in Cambodia
SUMMER GOLD Gold
SOUTHERN GOLD Gold
OXIANA Gold / Copper
SOUTHERN MINING Chromium
BHPB Bauxite
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LIBERTY Gold, 55,000 ha
OXIANA Gold, 45,000 ha
SOUTHERN GOLD Gold, 2 sites 55,000 ha
.
BHP-B Bauxite 100,000 ha
Sen Monorom
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• IMPACTS
• Social and Environmental Impacts
• Resettlement, employment, food-security,
  health, culture
• Pollution, infrastructure

• Resource Revenues
• - Government and Industry Transparency
  and Accountability
• - The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease
• - Community Benefit Sharing

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CSO Engagement

• Working with communities participation and
  consent
• Capacity to gather information
• Building and maintaining effective advocacy
  positions
• Working with the media / legal etc.
• Engaging public officials
• Engaging corporations

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BHP-Bauxite