By: Zamboanga.com Editorial
Over the course of this editorial, we will be presenting you an explanation and documentation as to the latest and greatest reason for the value and meaning of the word Sabah in Malaysia. The intensity of events over the past few weeks were unprecedented in our modern-day global economic and diplomatic world, and yet the response from the global community has been equally unprecedented in muteness and coverage.
We wondered very carefully as to what would cause Malaysia, a state that has been garnering close ties with its ASEAN friends, to turn that attainment around so quickly and alienate its ASEAN neighbors by deporting and abusing their citizens living in Sabah?
We also wondered what would cause Malaysia to inflamingly jeopardize a prosperous economic setup in Sabah and cause the companies there to loose valuable production when their Filipino and Indonesian workers were deported swiftly and mercilessly out of Sabah, without supplying these companies with replacement workers to pick up the slack?
We wondered out loud what lunatic Malaysian Prime Minister would callously deport, starve, rape, and cause the deaths of its fellow Muslim brethren who have historical rights to belong in Sabah?
We wondered suspiciously as to why Malaysia would ominously elicit the ire of two sovereign governments and its people, namely The Philippines and Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, and not show any remorse for it?
What could possibly drive a nation to the brink of war, in order to accomplish such an empirical goal?
What lies beneath all the urgency to deport these Filipino citizens out of Sabah?
Well, we can only muster one defining answer to the above questions – OIL!!! Lot and lots of OIL!
We all know what’s been happening in the Middle East for decades, and the governments who want to control the flow and access to the oil. Well, literally speaking, Malaysia is jealously trying to create its own abundance of oil wells through its state-owned oil and gas corporation - Petronas - much like its billionaire friend the Sultan of Brunei. It will undoubtedly achieve its goal at the expense of its internal nemesis, the Sultanate of Sulu! Who cares about the lowly Tausugs and their brand of Islamic beliefs? To deplore them like pigs wallowing in bloody mud is highly substantiated by the hypocrite Prime Minister …. The thickness and wealth of oil is much thicker than the blood of their Muslim brothers and sisters, the poor Tausugs and their lost Sabah.
We wanted to get proof of our strong suspicion, even though we believed it to be 99% true! However, we had to be responsible and try to present evidence in order to substantiate our belief. So, after embarking on a fact-finding mission, hoping it would not take a lot of effort or sentimental preponderance ala Malacañang-style, and the result came up in just a few seconds of searching! Right there in front of our eyes was the proof we were looking for! Well, well, well...: we'll let you absorb the report below first:
SOURCE: Murphy Oil Corporation
Murphy Oil Announces Significant Oil Discovery in Deepwater Malaysia ( in Sabah! )
EL DORADO, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002--Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR - News; TSX:MUR.U) announced today that its subsidiary, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., has drilled a significant oil discovery on the Kikeh prospect located on Block K, offshore Sabah Malaysia.
"We are immensely pleased with this discovery," says Claiborne P. Deming, Murphy Oil President and Chief Executive Officer. "This well encountered several hundred feet of high quality oil reservoirs. The structure covers a large area and we plan to immediately move the rig to drill an appraisal location to help determine the size of this discovery."
Located in almost 4,400 feet of water, the Kikeh discovery lies in the southern part of Block K and is the first deepwater oil discovery made in Malaysia (Sabah). Murphy, as operator, has an 80% interest in Block K and adjoining Block H, which combined, cover over six million acres. Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned exploration and production arm of Petronas (Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas corporation), holds the remaining 20% interest.
Over the course of this editorial, we will be presenting you an explanation and documentation as to the latest and greatest reason for the value and meaning of the word Sabah in Malaysia. The intensity of events over the past few weeks were unprecedented in our modern-day global economic and diplomatic world, and yet the response from the global community has been equally unprecedented in muteness and coverage.
We wondered very carefully as to what would cause Malaysia, a state that has been garnering close ties with its ASEAN friends, to turn that attainment around so quickly and alienate its ASEAN neighbors by deporting and abusing their citizens living in Sabah?
We also wondered what would cause Malaysia to inflamingly jeopardize a prosperous economic setup in Sabah and cause the companies there to loose valuable production when their Filipino and Indonesian workers were deported swiftly and mercilessly out of Sabah, without supplying these companies with replacement workers to pick up the slack?
We wondered out loud what lunatic Malaysian Prime Minister would callously deport, starve, rape, and cause the deaths of its fellow Muslim brethren who have historical rights to belong in Sabah?
We wondered suspiciously as to why Malaysia would ominously elicit the ire of two sovereign governments and its people, namely The Philippines and Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, and not show any remorse for it?
What could possibly drive a nation to the brink of war, in order to accomplish such an empirical goal?
What lies beneath all the urgency to deport these Filipino citizens out of Sabah?
Well, we can only muster one defining answer to the above questions – OIL!!! Lot and lots of OIL!
We all know what’s been happening in the Middle East for decades, and the governments who want to control the flow and access to the oil. Well, literally speaking, Malaysia is jealously trying to create its own abundance of oil wells through its state-owned oil and gas corporation - Petronas - much like its billionaire friend the Sultan of Brunei. It will undoubtedly achieve its goal at the expense of its internal nemesis, the Sultanate of Sulu! Who cares about the lowly Tausugs and their brand of Islamic beliefs? To deplore them like pigs wallowing in bloody mud is highly substantiated by the hypocrite Prime Minister …. The thickness and wealth of oil is much thicker than the blood of their Muslim brothers and sisters, the poor Tausugs and their lost Sabah.
We wanted to get proof of our strong suspicion, even though we believed it to be 99% true! However, we had to be responsible and try to present evidence in order to substantiate our belief. So, after embarking on a fact-finding mission, hoping it would not take a lot of effort or sentimental preponderance ala Malacañang-style, and the result came up in just a few seconds of searching! Right there in front of our eyes was the proof we were looking for! Well, well, well...: we'll let you absorb the report below first:
SOURCE: Murphy Oil Corporation
Murphy Oil Announces Significant Oil Discovery in Deepwater Malaysia ( in Sabah! )
EL DORADO, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002--Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR - News; TSX:MUR.U) announced today that its subsidiary, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., has drilled a significant oil discovery on the Kikeh prospect located on Block K, offshore Sabah Malaysia.
"We are immensely pleased with this discovery," says Claiborne P. Deming, Murphy Oil President and Chief Executive Officer. "This well encountered several hundred feet of high quality oil reservoirs. The structure covers a large area and we plan to immediately move the rig to drill an appraisal location to help determine the size of this discovery."
Located in almost 4,400 feet of water, the Kikeh discovery lies in the southern part of Block K and is the first deepwater oil discovery made in Malaysia (Sabah). Murphy, as operator, has an 80% interest in Block K and adjoining Block H, which combined, cover over six million acres. Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned exploration and production arm of Petronas (Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas corporation), holds the remaining 20% interest.
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No doubt about it - there is oil, there's gaz and other sources of energy in Sabah.
Ultimate reason why Malaysia is keeping her tentacles clearly wrapped around the Mindanao problem.
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