Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "Oil and gas exploration"

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    • 2 energy exploration deals up for China signing – Cusi 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, November 9, 2018, on page B-7)
      The Philippines is ready with two joint oil and gas exploration agreements to be signed with China, its energy minister said on Wednesday and reiterated his position calling for the lifting of the ban on drilling works in ...

    • Benham Rise: Nurturing our God-given blessings 

      Ramos, Fidel V. (Manila Bulletin, April 2, 2017, on page 11)
      There should be no problem for the Philippines over Benham Rise because (1) the Philippines is the sole claimant; and (2) the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) ruled in 2012 that Benham Rise is ...

    • Carpio cites PH-China oil exploration deal: Safeguards to protect PH sovereignty in place 

      Panaligan, Rey G.; Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, November 26, 2018, on page 1-13)
      Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio said yesterday the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Philippines and China on joint exploration of natural resources in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) "has safeguards ...

    • China backs joint energy dev't with Philippines in disputed sea 

      Mogato, Manuel (Manila Bulletin, July 27, 2017, on page B-3)
      China’s foreign minister on Tuesday said he supported the idea of joint energy ventures with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, warning that unilateral action could cause problems and damage both sides. Wang ...

    • China flies 2 commercial jets to man-made island in South China Sea 

      Bodeen, Christopher (Manila Bulletin, January 9, 2016, on page B12)
      A pair of Chinese civilian jet airliners landed at a newly created island in a disputed section of the South China Sea in a test to see whether its airstrip was up to standard, state media reported Thursday. The China Daily ...

    • China, PH discuss joint South China Sea projects 

      Associated Press (Manila Bulletin, March 22, 2018, on page 1-10)
      Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano was in Beijing on Wednesday for talks on possible joint development projects in the South China Sea amid signs of an easing of tensions in the disputed waterway. Cayetano was scheduled ...

    • Conflict stops PH from exploring oil in WPS 

      Casayuran, Mario; Rosario, Ben R. (Manila Bulletin, June 19, 2018, on page 2)
      The territorial dispute with China is preventing the Philippines from exploring oil and gas in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian pointed out yesterday. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee ...

    • Don't be too 'liberal' with Benham Rise 

      Ramos, Fidel V. (Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2018, on page 12)
      “There should be no problem for the Philippines over Benham Rise because (1) the Philippines is the sole claimant; and (2) the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) ruled in 2012 that Benham Rise is ...

    • Draft WPS exploration framework ‘looking good’ in all aspects - DFA 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, October 17, 2018, on page 1-4)
      A Philippine-crafted draft framework on the joint exploration in South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) is now shaping up ahead of the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano ...

    • Duterte offers 60-40 deal with China Joint South China Sea exploration planned 

      Kabiling, Genalyn D. (Manila Bulletin, April 28, 2018, on page 1-6)
      The Philippines could forge a 60-40 sharing scheme in the planned joint exploration with China in the South China Sea, President Duterte proposed last Thursday amid improving ties between the two nations. The President ...

    • Duterte OK's 9 bilateral talks 

      Mabasa, Roy (Manila Bulletin, September 3, 2016, on page 1-6)
      President Duterte is scheduled to have at least nine bilateral meetings, apart from his talks with United States (US) President Barack Obama, on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Laos next week, the Department of ...

    • Duterte open to South China Sea deals 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, May 17, 2017, on page 7)
      President Duterte said Tuesday he was open to exploring the South China Sea’s natural resources with rival claimants China and Vietnam, after securing a “windfall” while in Beijing. Duterte also emphasized he had no immediate ...

    • Fish galore at Benham Rise 

      Quismorio, Ellson (Manila Bulletin, May 8, 2017, on page 2)
      Benham Rise, Philippine Sea – There might be great oil reserves here at Benham Rise, but Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Piñol is after the tuna. During the government expedition in this rich fishing ground, the ...

    • A formula for the Philippines, China, and Vietnam in the West Philippine Sea-South China Sea and other participants 

      De Venecia, Jose C. Jr. (Manila Bulletin, April 21, 2019, on page 14)
      At some point now or sooner than later, the claimants in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea will have to sit down and agree on a seismic and oil exploration program to be fol­lowed by a definitive oil drilling and ...

    • Japanese carrier drills with British warship heading to contested South China Sea 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2018, on page 6)
      Japan’s biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with Britain’s HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday as the frigate headed toward the contested South China Sea and East Asia. Britain, Japan ...

    • Joint exploration of oil-rich sea with China Proposed 

      Casayuran, Mario B. (Manila Bulletin, October 12, 2016, on page 4)
      The Philippine government should press China into agreeing that they enter into joint exploration of the oil-rich South China Sea without mentioning the United Nations (UN) arbitration court decision that China's historical ...

    • Legislation pushed for joint WPS exploration 

      Velasco, Myrna M. (Manila Bulletin, August 19, 2020, on page B-4)
      For the country’s sovereign rights to be guaranteed and protected in any joint exploration deal that it will enter into with other governments, including China, on the extraction of oil and gas resources at the West ...

    • Likely Philippines-China joint exploration for oil and/or natural gas in the South China Sea 

      De Vencia, Jose C. Jr. (Manila Bulletin, August 19, 2018, on page 16)
      A distinct likely prospect now is the signing next month of a Philippines-China framework agreement for joint exploration for hydrocarbons, for oil and/or natural gas, in the West Philippine Sea, which will reduce or put ...

    • Our rights are assured in oil exploration agreement 

      (Manila Bulletin, November 28, 2018, on page 10)
      Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio has long been vocal in his opposition to the Duterte administration’s inaction on the 2016 ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague rejecting China’s claim ...

    • PH can find way to make joint exploration of seas with China constitutional - Recto 

      Casaruyan, Mario B. (Manila Bulletin, July 29, 2017, on page 4)
      Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto threw yesterday his support behind moves of Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano to find a “constitutionally-compliant win-win arrangement” between ...