Category: Business

SHARBINI (kiri) menyampaikan sumbangan duit Raya kepada anak-anak yatim dari Rumah Amal Nur Murni pada Majlis Berbuka Puasa bersama Sarawak Energy di Hotel Hilton, Kuching. - Foto Hazreen Mohamad KUCHING: Seluruh Sarawak bakal menikmati bekalan elektrik sepenuhnya menjelang 2025 melalui pelbagai inisiatif dilaksanakan Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) Malah, jangkaan itu bersandarkan komitmen firma utiliti itu untuk memastikan 97 peratus rumah di kawasan pedalaman dan luar bandar negeri ini menikmati bekalan elektrik 24 jam tahun depan. Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Kumpulan SEB, Datuk Sharbini Suhaili, berkata ketika ini, 91 peratus rumah di kawasan pedalaman dan luar bandar sudah menerima kemudahan itu. “Kita menjangka tambahan enam peratus itu dapat dicapai menjelang tahun depan, seterusnya meningkatkan liputan elektrik domestik keseluruhan dari 95 peratus hingga 99 peratus menjelang 2020. “Sarawak kini berada di landasan tepat ke arah mencapai kadar liputan elektrik 100 peratus menjelang 2025, sekali gus menawarkan suasana kehidupan lebih selesa kepada rakyat,” katanya pada Majlis Berbuka Puasa SEB, di sini semalam. Seramai 30 penghuni Rumah Seri Kenangan dan 56...

GPS won’t compromise on state’s rights over its O&G: Chief Minister MIRI: As long as Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) rules Sarawak, the state’s rights over its oil and gas resources will be upheld. GPS chairman Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg said this can be achieved through the enforcement of the Oil Mining Ordinance (OMO) 1958. The chief minister said this is one sure way to enable Sarawak to benefit from its oil and gas resources which have been exploited by outsiders for decades. Abang Helmi (right) presents a token of appreciation to Abang Johari as other guests look on. “The ordinance gives Sarawak the power to regulate and issue licences for its upstream oil and gas industry. Petronas is not exempted from this,” he stressed. “As long as GPS rules Sarawak we will ensure this right is maintained,” he reiterated. Abang Johari went on to say that Sarawak wants “real” participation in its oil and gas industry. He said it is for this reason that...

Abang Johari (empat kiri) dan Awang Tengah (tiga kiri) menyaksikan pertukaran dokumen di antara wakil-wakil bagi penubuhan Pusat Inovasi Minyak dan Gas Sarawak (SOGIC), yang membabitkan Serba Dinamik Holdings Sdn Bhd, DUBS Holdings Sdn Bhd, Suarah Petroleum Group (SPG) dan Universiti Curtin, Malaysia. MIRI: Kerajaan Negeri Sarawak mahu mengambil pendekatan holistik dalam industri minyak dan gas yang merupakan perniagaan antarabangsa, dengan menjalin kerjasama dengan syarikat-syarikat yang sudah bertapak kukuh dalam industri itu. Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg berkata Sarawak melalui syarikat minyaknya sendiri yang ditubuhkan, PETROS, bersedia untuk berunding dengan mana-mana syarikat melalui perkongsian sama rata, dengan PETROS menyediakan data sumber asli (minyak) yang tepat dan menyerahkan kepakaran pengeluaran kepada syarikat berkaitan. "Jika mahu berkongsi, kita (PETROS) perlu mempunyai data yang tepat dan inilah yang saya dan pasukan saya lakukan. Ini adalah pendekatan holistik yang kita ambil dalam (Kerajaan) GPS, apabila kita mendapat data maka kita boleh meramalkan dan mula melaksanakan. Kita bukan hanya bercakap tanpa tindakan," katanya. "Kita...

MIRI: Sarawak may be new in the administration of petroleum resources; hence it is important for the state government to take in ideas and suggestions on policies, programmes and investment for consideration for it to manage the resources properly. President of Sarawak Bumiputra Chamber of Entrepreneurs, Datu Abang Helmi Ikhwan, said the ideas and suggestions made during the course of the deliberation at the Sarawak Oil & Gas Seminar and Exhibition (Sogse) held last weekend are very important and maybe useful. “Therefore it is hoped that the Sarawak government will examine these carefully and possibly, implement them. “The state government is noted to have taken the right step to set up its own Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros) and the action to exert its right over petroleum resources is very well understood by virtually all Sarawakians. “It is also equally important that the ideas and suggestions that come from industry players are taken in as it may able to help to manage the resources effectively,”...

With the acquisition of 51 per cent of Layang Layang Aerospace Sdn Bhd, Hubline expects to have a positive contribution to the group and Hubline is confident of the potential expansion in the general air charter, flying academy and the oil and gas sector in the near future. KUCHING: Sarawak-based shipping company Hubline Bhd has now ventured into the aviation business with the acquisition of 51 per cent of Layang Layang Aerospace Sdn Bhd (Layang Layang). Layang Layang started its operation in 1994 in Miri, Sarawak by an aircraft engineer turned entrepreneur Johan Poong Abudllah. The company, recently celebrating its silver jubilee, initially was focused in providing that very important air link to connect the rural areas of Sarawak and Sabah. Layang Layang is a registered service provider for Petronas and is entering into the oil and gas air transportation services with bases in Miri and Kota Kinabalu as one of its major upcoming project. “The oil and gas transportation is picking up again...