Myanmar oil and gas majors in spotlight

Major oil companies, including Total and Chevron, are under intense scrutiny for their work with Myanmar’s state-run energy firm MOGE, which is a key source of revenue for the country’s military junta


French energy major active in Myanmar since 1992, has developed key gas fields – Yadana and Sein. Paid $619.9 million to MOGE and $166.6 million to ministry of finance between 2015-19

Second-largest U.S. energy firm is calculated to have paid close to $700 million from 2015-19, including $560 million to MOGE

Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production paid estimated $640 million from 2015-19, including around $500 million to MOGE


MYANMAR NATURAL GAS

Proven reserves: 1.2 trillion cubic metres as of 2019, or around 0.5% of global reserves

Production: 17 billion cubic metres in 2019, or 0.4 % of global output

Yadana fields: Supply half of all Myanmar’s gas and some 15% of gas consumed by Thailand


Yadana shares
Total: 31.2%
Chevron 28.3%
PTTEP 25.5%
MOGE (Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise): 15%


Gas pipelines 
Offshore gas field

INDIA 
BANGLADESH
Myanmar-China pipeline
CHINA
Mandalay
MYANMAR
Naypyidaw
Shwe
Bay of Bengal
Phyi Thar
Yangon
THAILAND
Bangkok
Yadana and Sein
Zawtika
Yetagun
Andaman Sea
Gulf of Thailand

300km 185 miles


Sources: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Reuters, Total
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