Bangladesh to add offshore gas blocks after dispute with Burma ends
Bangladesh wants to add two new offshore oil and gas exploration blocks to the country’s map in the eastern Bay of Bengal. The dispute resolution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on March 14 may also clear Myanmar’s claims over six existing blocks. A top official on Thursday said [...]
Despite protests, Bangladesh inks pacts with U.S. energy giant for offshore hydrocarbon exploration
The government of Bangladesh, an energy starved country, inked a contract on Thursday with a U.S. energy giant for offshore oil and gas exploration. Ignoring protests, state-owned PetroBangla signed a production-sharing contract (PSC) with Conoco Phillips, an U.S. corporation for exploration of oil and gas in two deep-sea gas blocks. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious [...]
Red storm rising or storm in a teacup? The South China Sea island disputes
In 1996 bestselling US author Tom Clancy (Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Sum of All Fears) wrote a novel entitled SSN which followed the mission of a US submarine in a fictional war between the United States and China over the Spratly islands. Similarly the plot of the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never [...]
