South-East Asia remains a hotbed of upstream interest despite recent slides in exploration activity against the backdrop of the prevailing depressed oil price, plus regulatory uncertainty that continues to confuse and exasperate players in some nations.
Myanmar has already delivered two world-class gas discoveries for Woodside Petroleum this year and the Australian operator and its partners want to firm up the development concept for one, Thalin, by mid-2017 (see pages 26&27).
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