Petros assurance rings hollow amid challenge to Petronas, says Zaid

Zaid Ibrahim criticised Sarawak Premier Abang Johari's assurance about Petros not undermining Petronas, highlighting Petros's intention to take over a crucial gas role in Sarawak.

He emphasised that transferring the gas aggregator role from Petronas could affect its RM10 billion Sarawak gas business and cited current payment disputes as evidence of arising issues.

Zaid insisted that Sarawak must first recognise Petronas's rights under federal law before negotiating Petros's role, warning that similar actions by other states could weaken Petronas nationally.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 — Former law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim says Sarawak premier Abang Johari Openg’s assurance that Petros will not undermine Petronas rings hollow while the state oil company seeks a bigger role in the gas business and Sarawak continues to question the federal legal framework governing petroleum.

Writing on Facebook, Zaid said the central issue was Petros’s desire to take over the gas aggregator role currently performed by Petronas in Sarawak.

That role is integral to the gas value chain, he said, and cannot be transferred without affecting Petronas’s commercial position. He estimated Petronas’s Sarawak gas business at about RM10 billion annually.

Zaid said the impact was already visible in the confusion created by competing claims over payments. He pointed to the Shell dispute, saying roughly RM80 million a month had been withheld while the parties disputed who should be paid.

Abang Johari had said earlier that Petros’s expansion was not designed to displace Petronas. He said Sarawak would continue to work with Petronas while developing its ability to process gas locally and move into higher-value downstream activities.

His comments followed Petros’s joint development agreement with Norwegian company Höegh Evi for a Kuching LNG regasification terminal, which is expected to be operational by 2029. Sarawak is also exploring small-scale LNG facilities and carbon capture, utilisation and storage projects.

Zaid said those ambitions need not be incompatible with Sarawak’s development, but the order of discussion mattered. The state must first recognise Petronas’s rights over Malaysia’s oil and gas under the Petroleum Development Act 1974, he said.

He noted that Sarawak was challenging the application of the PDA and other federal petroleum laws in the state. That, he said, was a challenge to the legal foundation of Petronas, rather than a routine negotiation over commercial participation.

Once the legal position is accepted, Zaid said, the parties can negotiate a role for Petros that addresses Sarawak’s circumstances without dismantling key functions of the national oil company.

He warned that the consequences would extend beyond Sarawak if other producing states pursued similar claims. Petronas would lose the scale that supports its national role, including its ability to invest and contribute to federal revenue, he said.

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扎伊德·易卜拉欣批评了砂拉越州首相阿邦佐哈里关于Petros不会削弱Petronas的保证，强调Petros有意接管砂拉越的关键天然气业务。

他强调，将天然气聚合商的角色从马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）转移出去可能会影响其价值 100 亿令吉的砂拉越天然气业务，并以目前的付款纠纷为例，证明问题正在出现。

扎伊德坚持认为，砂拉越必须首先承认马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）在联邦法律下的权利，然后再与Petronas就其角色进行谈判，并警告说，其他州的类似行动可能会削弱Petronas在全国范围内的地位。

吉隆坡，10 月 4 日讯——前法律部长拿督扎伊德·易卜拉欣表示，砂拉越州首相阿邦佐哈里·奥本保证砂拉越石油公司不会损害马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）的利益，但这一保证听起来空洞无物。与此同时，这家州石油公司正寻求在天然气业务中扮演更大的角色，而砂拉越也继续质疑联邦政府对石油行业的法律框架。

Zaid 在 Facebook 上发文称，核心问题是 Petros 希望接管 Petronas 目前在砂拉越扮演的天然气聚合商角色。

他表示，这一角色在天然气价值链中至关重要，若转让将影响马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）的商业地位。他估计，Petronas在砂拉越的天然气业务年产值约为100亿令吉。

扎伊德表示，各方就付款事宜提出的相互矛盾的说法已经造成了混乱，其影响显而易见。他以壳牌公司的纠纷为例，称每月约有8000万令吉的款项被扣留，而各方却在争夺付款方。

阿邦佐哈里此前曾表示，Petros的扩张并非旨在取代Petronas。他表示，砂拉越将继续与Petronas合作，同时提升其本地天然气加工能力，并进军更高价值的下游产业。

此前，Petros与挪威公司Höegh Evi签署了古晋液化天然气再气化终端的联合开发协议，该终端预计将于2029年投入运营。砂拉越还在探索小型液化天然气设施和碳捕获、利用与封存项目。

扎伊德表示，这些雄心壮志与砂拉越的发展并非必然冲突，但讨论的顺序至关重要。他指出，砂拉越必须首先承认马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）根据1974年《石油发展法》对马来西亚石油和天然气的权利。

他指出，砂拉越正在挑战《石油开发法》和其他联邦石油法律在该州的适用。他说，这并非例行的商业合作谈判，而是对马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）法律基础的挑战。

Zaid表示，一旦法律立场得到接受，各方就可以协商Petros在砂拉越的具体情况下扮演的角色，而无需拆散这家国家石油公司的关键职能。

他警告说，如果其他产油州也提出类似诉求，后果将不仅限于砂拉越。他表示，马来西亚国家石油公司（Petronas）将失去支撑其国家地位的规模，包括其投资能力和为联邦财政收入做出贡献的能力。

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