On the heels of the Philippines’ termination of joint oil and gas negotiations with China, businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan has expressed interest to continue exploration activities in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
On the heels of the Philippines’ termination of joint oil and gas negotiations with China, businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan has expressed interest to continue exploration activities in the West Philippine Sea .
“Even with the best of intentions on our part, because we want to continue with our work program precisely to determine if there’s gas in WPS. But if outside forces will stop us, what should we do? Who will protect us? We are a private sector company,” Pangilinan told reporters in a chance interview.
“It’s easy enough to say if we have a committed work program, as we do, to the government. As recently as April this year, we have several boats out there — non-combatant boats doing survey works to determine where to drill, where to work on, and identify suitable sites to work on,” he said. Over the weekend, the DOE confirmed the Cabinet-level SJPCC terminated the joint oil and gas negotiations with China. The SJPCC is composed of the secretary of National Defense as chair and the secretaries of the Interior and Local Government, Foreign Affairs, Justice, as well as the executive secretary, national security adviser, and presidential adviser on the peace process as members.
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