The government will sign an agreement today (Aug 27) with two energy companies in Norway and France to carry out a two-year oil and gas exploration exercise in the Eastern seas.
Vajira Dassanayake, Director General of the Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat (PRDS) said that the agreement would be signed between the government, Norway’s Equinor and France’s Total companies.
Total has already surveyed 50,000 square kilometres on the East coast unfer a previous study and Equinor will have a 30 percent stake in the exploration as per the new agreement.
This month the PRDS also signed an agreement with UK-based Bell Geospace Ltd to carry out a magnetic and gravity survey in the Mannar and Cauveri Basins.
Related story
Gas and oil exploration to expand; tripartite agreement with Norway’s Equinor and France’s Total
Govt. inks agreement for airborne oil survey
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Leave Comments