PETRONAS nafi ada hutang royalti
Kuala Lumpur 30/11/2012: PETRONAS semalam menafikan tuduhan mereka ada berhutang royalti minyak kepada beberapa negeri.
Presiden dan Ketua Eksekutifnya, Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas, berkata isu bayaran royalti minyak kepada negeri pengeluar sumber itu terletak kepada kerajaan persekutuan.
“Sebagai sebuah syarikat, tanggungjawab kami adalah menguruskan sumber tenaga dan bukannya menyebarkan kekayaan,”
Oil review panel headed by Pairin proposal
“Almost every party including BN component parties talked about review of oil royalty but we are not sure whether it had been discussed formally and thoroughly,”
KUALA LUMPUR 1/11/2012: Sabah terlebih dahulu perlu menerima hasil dari sumber minyaknya sebelum diagihkan ke negeri-negeri lain.
Apabila terdapat lebihan dari agihan tersebut, barulah ia wajar diagihkan ke negeri-negeri lain, tegas Pesuruhjaya PAS Sabah, Aminuddin Aling (gambar).
Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas kenyataan pemimpin Umno Sabah, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal yang menolak tawaran Pakatan Rakyat memberikan bayaran royalti sebanyak 20 peratus jika berjaya memenangi pilihan raya umum akan datang.
31/10/2012: Pemimpin Umno Sabah Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal berkata, tawaran royalti minyak 20 peratus kepada negeri itu yang dibuat pembangkang tidak dapat diterima walaupun menarik, demi perkongsian kemakmuran negara.
OUR OIL FIELDS ARE RUNNING DRY?
25/10/2012: PETRONAS recently came up with some very lame excuses including the diminishing assets and/or maturing fields’ arguments to hoodwink the people of East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak). For many decades now East Malaysians have been treated like fools and simpletons to believe that our oil fields are running dry.
With new technology especially in exploration and drilling, our potential oil reserves are a lot more than we are being made to believe.
Raise Sabah’s oil royalty, urges Balung assemblyman *new!
KOTA KINABALU 22/10/2012: Datuk Syed Abas Syed Ali (BN-Balung) has called for a doubling of Sabah’s oil royalty payments by Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) from the present five per cent, saying it would enable more effective implementation of the state’s development agenda.
“Failing that, a 50 per cent increase to 7.5 per cent would also be good. I am confident this matter can be negotiated, and the increase need not be implemented immediately,”
Legal action threat over oil, gas rights
KOTA KINABALU 20/10/2012: State Reform Party (Star) Sabah is giving the State Government six weeks to restore ownership rights of Sabah’s oil and gas resources, or the people would proceed with legal action, according to its chairman Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan.
He told a press conference at TNGC Beverly Hills yesterday that Petronas missed the point when it acted as if it was the sole custodian of Malaysia’s oil and gas.
Jimmy issues a challenge on oil royalty
KOTA KINABALU 20/12/2012: An opposition leader challenged Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman at the State Legislative Assembly sitting yesterday to show the courage to ask for an increase in the state’s oil royalty to at least 20 percent.
Sri Tanjung assemblyman Jimmy Wong said there was no use ‘scolding’ the opposition for asking the 15 percent increase from the existing five per cent oil royalty.
“The oil royalty must give justice to everyone, this is a free gift from God, so every person must have a fair share.”
Higher royalty won't affect Petronas: DAP
DAP Sabah Publicity Secretary, Chan Foong Hin, said there is no such thing that the increase in oil royalty would harm or affect the profit earnings of Petronas.
20% oil royalty is less than 1% of Petronas’ total asset – PKR
KOTA KINABALU 14/10/2012: PKR Central Council member cum PKR Sabah secretary, Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen criticised Petronas for its recent statement that an increase in “royalty” payments to states to 20 percent from current five percent will undermine its RM170 billion planned projects over the next five years and private sector investment in the oil and gas sector.
The oil producing states involved are Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan and Terengganu.
Petronas urged to clarify oil royalty statement
KOTA KINABALU 14/10/2012: A call was made for Petronas to provide further explanation over its recent refusal to meet the request to increase the oil royalty payment to Sabah.
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said he had expressed his desire to hear what the Malaysian-owned oil and gas company had to say before making further statement.
‘Govt should decide on oil royalty, not Petronas’
PENAMPANG 13/10/2012: A local community leader has expressed his disappointment over Petronas’ statement with regards to the higher oil royalty payment to oil producing states in the country.
Jeoffrey Ekol, a member of UPKO, said that he was also perplexed by Petronas’ statement that it is against higher oil royalty to oil producing states.
Petronas-Sabah oil agreement challenged
The group of six who called themselves “Royalty for Sabah”, are Zainal Ajamain, Michael Peter Govind, PAS leaders Lahirul Latigu, Mohd Julpikar Ab Mijan, and SAPP’s Dullie Mari and Joseph Wilfred Lakai.
KUALA LUMPUR September 25, 2012: The federal government does not intend to increase the royalty payments to the various oil-producing states.
Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak confirmed this in Parliament in a written response to a query by PAS-Rantau Panjang MP Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff over the matter.
“The [federal] government has no intention to review the petroleum product payment to the state governments, including that of Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.
Oil-rich Sabah still the poorest
Sarawak and Sabah have been giving away oil for decades yet both share the 'honour' of being poor states.
September 7, 2012: The oil royalty re-negotiations which both Sabah and Sarawak chief ministers have suddenly agreed to would have to take into account history and the actual numbers earned by Petronas and the federal government.
It is vital that the leaders go into these discussions with Putrajaya knowing the true facts of the agreement and the events leading up to how both states were “coerced” into signing the agreements.
If I recall correctly, Sarawak commenced its oil production in the early 1900s. Sabah has been producing oil for 30 years now.
Any Sabah oil royalty should be at least 20pc
They should and must be made accountable for their actions and decisions.
All the economic progressive countries in the world, without exception, have a 2-party system or in the case of more than 2 parties, a bi-partisan system like in UK. The bottom-line reality is that no political leaders, left to their own devises, can be trusted in the long run without a rigorous system to ensure their good behaviour.
Voters should be on "high alert" when they start to say "trust us, don't trust them" or "we are the best for you" without saying anything specific.
Najib to offer oil royalty hike?
Fearing for his future, that of his party and ruling alliance, the PM has come to Sabah bearing gifts, according to Umno insiders.
KOTA KINABALU September 1, 2012: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, fearing for his future, that of his party and ruling alliance, has come to Sabah bearing gifts, according to Umno insiders.
One of them is an offer of an increase in the 5% oil royalty the state presently gets which the opposition Pakatan Rakyat has pledged to raise substantially if it takes over Putrajaya in the next general election.
However, while no figure was forthcoming, speculation is that the premier would offer “more than 10%” oil royalty to the must-win state for Barisan Nasional and Umno.
Sabah, Sarawak should have panel for royalty review – Dompok
The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said this when asked to comment on the suggestion to have the two East Malaysian states included in the special committee to review the oil royalty paid to Terengganu and Kelantan by the federal government.
“Sabah and Sarawak should have their own panel to talk to the federal government. It is not necessary to be part of the panel for the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
“Obviously the historical setting is quite different both for Sabah and Sarawak and the peninsula states. Therefore I think it is necessary to have a separate panel for these two (East Malaysian) states,” Dompok said.
‘Musa making same mistake as Harris’
Neither Chief Minister Musa Aman nor Taib Mahmud, has any right to re-negotiate the states' oil rights; 'only' the respective State Legislative Assemblies can do that.
KOTA KINABALU August 27, 2012: The Sabah Barisan Nasional government will be making the same “mistake” it did more than 30 years ago by agreeing to negotiate its oil rights with the federal government, a politician here has warned.
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Liawan vice-chairman Joseph Wilfred Lakai said today that there was no necessity to re-negotiate terms between the East Malaysian states and the federal government on the Petroleum Agreement 1976 .
“Why should Sabah and Sarawak re-negotiate the Petroleum Agreement when even in the first agreement Malaya did not honour the terms?”
