Gas and oil discovered in Myanmar
By Anuchit Nguyen
Published: SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2006
BANGKOK: PTT Exploration & Production, Thailand's state-controlled oil
and gas exploration company, has discovered a "significant amount" of
natural gas and oil reserves in Myanmar, the Thai prime minister,
Thaksin ****nawatra, announced.
The discovery will secure a sufficient supply of natural gas and oil
for Thailand in the future, Thaksin said in a weekly radio address
Saturday. Last Wednesday, the prime minister discussed cooperation
between Thailand and its neighbor with General Than Shwe, head of the
ruling military junta, in Myanmar's new capital, Pyinmana.
PTT Exploration, based in Bangkok, is 66 percent owned by
state-controlled PTT. The company plans to spend 233 billion baht, or
$6.16 billion, between now and 2010 to increase production of crude
oil and natural gas at home and overseas. The company has contracts to
explore and develop oil and gas fields in countries like Vietnam,
Myanmar, Indonesia and Algeria.
"Myanmar will continue to be Thailand's biggest source of energy,"
Thaksin said. Thailand and Myanmar also plan to jointly build
hydropower plants and dams, he said.
PTT Exploration, on of Thailand's biggest natural gas producers, owns
the sole right to explore for oil and natural gas in three projects in
the Gulf of Martaban off Myanmar. The company is a minority
shareholder in the Yadana and Yetagun gas fields in the Gulf of
Martaban. Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, Thailand's
biggest private power producer, buys all the natural gas it uses to
generate power from Myanmar's Yadana and Yetagun fields.
Myanmar has been under international sanctions since the ruling
military junta rejected the results of elections in 1990, which were
won by the opposition National League for Democracy.
Thaksin said that he had also discussed the pace of political
development in Myanmar.
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12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath
performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will
punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the
glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by
my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the
people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the
inhabitants like a valiant [man]:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as
one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the earth; and
there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or]
shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the
rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the
staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat
ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the
burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one
day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer
fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child
may write them.
20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of
Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more
again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the
mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a
remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow
with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined, in the midst of all the land.
(Old Testament | Isaiah 10:12-23)
Wilford Woodruff the Apostle:
And I will here say with regard to the Gospel of Christ, that it is
one of the greatest mysteries under the heavens to me why there are so
few of the human family, whether in the Christian, Pagan or Jewish
world, who take any interest in eternal things, in the state of man
after death. If we read the Bible we learn that Noah, filled with
revelation, and with the Gospel in his hand, although he labored a
hundred and twenty years, could not get a solitary soul except his own
family to go with him to salvation. It was similar in the days of the
Patriarchs and Prophets, and if we come down to the days of Christ, we
find that his testimony was rejected by the rabbis, high priests and
the great mass of the people, and he chose for his Apostles twelve
poor fishermen, and they and very few of the people, comparatively
speaking, were all that received the teaching of Jesus and followed
him through the regeneration; while the whole Jewish nation, with
these few exceptions, were ready to put their ****loh to death, and he
the person upon whom the salvation of the whole house of Israel
depended. It is just so to-day. The great majority of the people
reject the words of life and salvation which are proclaimed unto them.
God, in these last days revealed the Gospel of Jesus Christ to
Joseph Smith by the teaching of angels out of heaven, and its
principles are made known to the world, and there has never been a
congregation of Gentiles, from that day to this, to whom the Elders of
Israel have borne record of these things, but what the Spirit of God
has also borne record of the truth of their testimony; and herein lies
the condemnation of this generation, for "light, has come into the
world but men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are
evil." I ask, in the name of God and humanity, why is it that
intelligent beings, made in the image of God, take no interest in
their condition after death? They know they are going to die, and, if
they have any sense or reflection, they know they will live after the
death of their mortal bodies; still men will sell their eternal
interest for money, for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars they
will sell all the interest they have in the eternal world; in fact,
they take no interest in their eternal welfare. Their cry is--
"Give me gold, silver and honors the few years I spend here, and
eternal life may go where it pleases, I have no interest in that."
I ask again, why is it that the human family take no interest in these
things? We have preached over forty years. I have been engaged in
that work over that time, and have proclaimed the words of eternal
life to millions of people, and have traveled more than a hundred
thousand miles in so doing, and, as the Prophet has said, I have found
one of a family and two of a city who have had eyes to see, ears to
hear, and hearts to understand, and they have been gathered up from
the various nations of the earth into the mountains of Israel, and
here to-day we have a little handful of people, out of the twelve
hundred millions who dwell upon the earth, who feel an interest in
building up the Zion and kingdom of God upon the earth, and who are
desirous of being saved in that kingdom.
Now I would rather be poor all the days of my life, I would rather
go through poverty and affliction, it matters not how severe, even to
the sacrifice of my own life, than lose salvation and eternal life,
because I have faith in it and always had. I always have had faith in
the Bible and in the revelations of God since I was a boy like these
sitting on these seats, eight or ten years old, when I went to the
Presbyterian Sunday school and read about Jesus Christ. I believed
then that he was the Savior of the world; I believed that the Old and
New Testament was true. I believe it to-day. What would it profit
a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? What will a man
give in exchange for his soul? When he comes into the presence of God
he can't buy it. This is the position of the world.
~~Journal of Discourses, Vol.18, Pgs.34-35, June 27, 1875
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and
of all that were slain upon the earth.
(New Testament | Revelation 18:6 - 7,24)
1 The earth [is] the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and
they that dwell therein.
(Old Testament | Psalms 24:1)
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace.
(Old Testament | Psalms 37:10 - 11)
8 My name is Jehovah, and I know the end from the beginning; ...
(Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 2:8)
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