{"id":5867,"date":"2019-03-31T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2019-03-31T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:38:24","slug":"mannar-basin-oil-and-gas-exploration-to-begin-next-year-hashim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mannar-basin-oil-and-gas-exploration-to-begin-next-year-hashim\/","title":{"rendered":"Mannar Basin &#8211; Oil and gas exploration to begin next year: Hashim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Oil and gas exploration in the Mannar basin will begin next year and the agreement will be signed with a prospective investor on a production sharing basis, Petroleum Resources Development Minister Kabir Hashim told parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">He said bidding was invited to find a prospective investor and that 12 local and foreign companies have already submitted bidding papers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">&#8220;We opened a round of bidding on January 6. It will continue till May 7 to find a prospective investor. We will sign a production-sharing agreement with the selected investor on 2020 and launch oil exploration activities soon after. We expect the first production of natural gas during the period 2023 to 25,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The minister said surveys and studies have revealed that two gas blocks of 9 trillion square meters and two oil blocks of over 2 billion barrels were discovered in the Mannar basin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and gas exploration in the Mannar basin will begin next year and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}