Oil flows off Palawan
By Thea Alberto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 13:16:00 10/09/2008
MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has announced the extraction of fresh
oil off Palawan.
"The President is pleased to announce, as reported by Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes, the extraction of fresh oil from the Galoc oil field in the northwest offshore of Palawan at 10:45 am today [Thursday]," Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita told a press conference.
Reading from a prepared statement, Ermita said the President described the oil as “light, medium crude oil, with a potential high yield of light ends, such as gasoline.”
Ermita said the discovery, to be called Palawan light, was made at 10:45 a.m. Thursday and was put on board a Philippine vessel at 11:20 a.m. to be brought to local refineries.
Ermita said subject to further studies, the area is expected to yield from 10 million to 20 million barrels of oil.