Next Malampaya can be found in Mindanao: PNOC EC exec
Malampaya gas field (File photo)
As the Malampaya natural gas field is drying up, Mindanao might have the indigenous energy resources to energize the country.
gas source. As the government issued a moratorium on new coal projects, These basins include Bacud said oil and gas Agusan, Cotabato, and exploration, particularly the Sulu Sea. in Mindanao, could help In a webinar of Davao in the government’s International Conference “We still think that there is goal to achieve energy 2021 Thursday, PNOC natural gas potential for independence. Exploration Corp. (PNOC these areas, and it could EC) vice president for be where we could find “We still have a lot of upstream operation the next Malampaya,” natural or oil and gas Jaime Bacud said Bacud added. resources that are Mindanao is rich in still untapped. And indigenous resources The Malampaya gas this could be our way that can support the field, which supplies forward to get closer country’s energy around 30 percent to what we call energy requirement. of Luzon’s power independence,” he requirement, is the added. (PNA/Kris Bacud said Mindanao country’s lone natural Crismundo) alone has three Caraga INFOCUS
sedimentary basins waiting for exploration for oil and gas resources.
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