Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "Oil and gas exploration"
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Ambivalent opposition to the joint oil exploration
(Manila Standard,December 29, 2018 , on page A5)The Philippines only enjoys the right to claim over that portion of the South China Sea as part of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), but does not vest sovereign right over the area. Should we insist, it is possible that ... -
Carpio: Benham not PH territory
(Manila Standard,March 15, 2017 , on page A1-A2)A senior magistrate of the Supreme Court said Tuesday the Philippines had some rights over Benham Rise as confirmed by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf as part of the country’s “Extended Continental ... -
DOE allows work to resume in WPS; China joint dev't up
(Manila Standard,October 20, 2020 , on page A1-A2)Private firms with service contracts in the West Philippine Sea received “resume-to-work” notices from the Department of Energy on Monday, after President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in ... -
Du30 open to sea exploration with China, Vietnam
(Manila Standard,May 17, 2017 , on page A1-A2)President Rodrigo 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 ... -
Duterte mulls over WPH sea oil hunt revival
(Manila Standard,November 23, 2017 , on page A1-A2)President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he might lift the moratorium on oil exploration at the West Philippine Sea following his meeting with Chinese Premier Li Kequiang who recently visited the country. “It’s one of the ... -
Energy recommends lifting of ban on West Philippine Sea exploration
(Manila Standard,January 4, 2019 , on page B1)The Energy Department officially recommended to the Department of Foreign Affairs the lifting of the moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the West Philippine Sea amid the enhanced relations between China and the ... -
Envoy denies China war threat
(Manila Standard,May 24, 2017 , on page A2)President Rodrigo Duterte might have “misinterpreted” Chinese President Xi Jinping when he said Xi had threatened war if the Philippines explored for oil and gas in the Reed Bank, an underwater mountain near the Philippines, ... -
Exploration with China not ‘harmful’ — Cayetano
(Manila Standard,August 13, 2018 , on page A3)The framework for the proposed joint exploration hunt for oil and gas deposits with China in the West Philippine Sea will not be "harmful" to the country's territorial and sovereign rights, Foreign Affairs secretary Alan ... -
High Crime in the High Seas
(Manila Standard,July 15, 2016 , on page A11)At 5 p.m. on July 12, The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, at 117 years old, the oldest global institution for the settlement of international disputes, gave the Philippines its biggest legal victory ever in any ... -
Joint exploration with China
(Manila Standard,July 9, 2016 , on page A3)Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said Friday the Philippines was ready to negotiate with China on the joint exploration of oil and fishery resources in the South China Sea after the arbitration court decides ... -
Justice prods Palace to assert PH rights over Benham
(Manila Standard,February 19, 2018 , on page A1)Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has rebuffed the position of Malacanang that there is nothing wrong with China naming undersea features in the Philippine Rise. China, Carpio said, has no right to name the ... -
Landmark ruling upholds Unclos as charter of oceans
(Manila Standard,July 13, 2016 , on page A2)Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Tuesday lauded the landmark decision rendered by an international tribunal at The Hague that invalidated China’s massive claims on the South China Sea, including the ... -
An oil boom?
(Manila Standard,October 28, 2020 , on page B1)Share prices of once-dormant listed petroleum exploration companies have doubled and even more than quadrupled in recent days, from their March 2020 lows, thanks to the so-called lifting by President Duterte of the moratorium ... -
Panatag Shoal
(Manila Standard,April 1, 2017 , on page A5)To remove the mistrust and suspicion that is obviously being exploited by opposition and their US handlers, maybe an agreement can be sorted out to convert the Panatag Shoal into a free zone where, as it was before, the ... -
PH insists on sea code, China calls for dialog
(Manila Standard,March 2, 2016 , on page A5)Despite China’s call for a peaceful dialogue to resolve the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Philippines will continue to push for the legally binding Code of Conduct on the South China Sea between the Asean ... -
PH may sue China for war threat
(Manila Standard,May 21, 2017 , on page A1-A2)President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said that he would “wait for better times” to raise the issue of oil extraction and the arbitration ruling in disputed waters “when heads are cooler,” even as Supreme Court Associate ... -
PH told not to give up terrorial claim vs China
(Manila Standard,April 13, 2018 , on page A2)China has told the Philippine government not to give up its claim to the disputed South China Sea but simply asked it to put some order on how to discuss that claim so the two countries could pursue a joint oil and gas ... -
PH, China cautious on joint oil exploration talks
(Manila Standard,March 23, 2018 , on page A1-A2)China and Philippines said Wednesday they will cautiously proceed with discussions on joint oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, further reversing years of tensions over their competing claims to the region. the ... -
PH, China firm hold talks on joint oil hunt in SC Sea
(Manila Standard,March 2, 2018 , on page A2-A1)The Philippines said Thursday it is in talks with a Chinese state firm for joint South China Sea energy resource exploration and extraction, in a proposed deal described by President Rodrigo Duterte as akin to “co-ownership” ... -
Protest vs china incursions- Carpio
(Manila Standard,December 12, 2018 , on page A2)Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Tuesday urged the Duterte administration to file new protests against China over its incursions in the West Philippine Sea. He said the Philippines should file diplomatic protests ...