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Nowgan Pou Dcoa
O i l f O r D e v e l O P m e N t
2006-2007
32
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cAMBODIA
Project:
Development o cambodia’s Oil and Gas Industry
Cooperating institution:
cambodia National Petroleum Authority (cNPA)
Goal: to strengthen cambodia’s ability to govern the exploration and prodution
o its petroleum resoures by improving cNPA’s ability to:
1. Write and maintain the legal ramework or its upstream and downstream
petroleum industry
2. carry out bilateral negotiations and establish a legal ramework under whih
two or three neighbouring ountries an utilize petroleum resoures in
overlapping laims areas
3. Negotiate petroleum lienes with oil ompanies
4. Promote cambodia’s petroleum resoures by maintaining a ompetitive
liensing system and model petroleum ontrats.
Objectives:
•
Improve the upstream, mid-stream and downstream petroleum law o cambodia
•
Finalize agreements with Thailand onerning the Overlapping claims Area (OcA)
• Enhane the liensing proedures and Model Petroleum contrats
• Improve the Human reourses and organisational struture o cNPA
• Inrease awareness o the importane o good governane and
anti-orruption measures.
Project period: 2006 – 2008
Total budget: NOK 7 mill (USD 1.1 mill)
Programme The programme will be supervised by a resident projet oordinator and
onsists o the ollowing main elements:
• Legal ramework - Preparation o drat legislation
• Bilateral negotiations – treaty negotiations with Thailand regarding
overlapping laims area.
• Liensing and model petroleum ontrat.
• Organization and human resoure development
Contact:
cNPA: Mr. Te Duong Tara, Diretor General, [email protected]
NPD: Mr. Gunnar V. Søiland, Projet coordinator, [email protected]
Cooperating institutions in Norway:
NORAD
cOUNTRY FAcTS:Ofcial Name:
Kingdom of cambodia
Capital:
Phnom Penh
Chie o state:
King Norodom Sihamoni
Head o Government:
Prime Minister Hun Sen
Population:
13 881 427 (2006)
Petroleum sector,
key fgures:
No oil or gas prodution
Organisation o the sector:
The cambodian National
Petroleum Authority (cNPA),
whih reports diretly to the
Prime Minister.
Deputy Prime Minister
Mr. Sok An is chairman
of cNPA
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Brief history of the project:cNPA has reeived assistane rom Norway related
to petroleum governane or several years through
projets run through the ccOP organisation. Several
employees rom cNPA have attended Petrad’s 8-week
ourses in Stavanger over the years.
cNPA applied to the Norwegian Embassy in Bangkok or
aid related to the development o cambodia’s oil and
gas industry on February 25th 2004. Petrad onduted a
Training Need Assessment (TNA) cNPA in 2004 with the
report fnalised by the end o the year. Following the re-
sults rom the TNA, an initiating seminar was onduted
in Phnom Penh in Marh 2005 with representatives rom
NPD, NORAD, Petrad, cNPA and other cambodian Gov-
ernment agenies in addition to several Norwegian and
International legal frms. Based on the fndings rom the
seminar a revised appliation or aid was sent to NORAD
on June 7th 2005. The fnal Agreement between NORAD
and cNPA was signed on Deember 30th 2005.
Ativities in 2006 The ontrat between cNPA and NPD or tehnial
ooperation was signed 19.6.06. Tenders or the legal
work and or the position as resident projet o-
ordinator or the projet was then sent out. Among
5 appliants, ontrats were fnally signed with the
Norwegian law frm WikborgRein in agreement with
cNPA. Mr Børre Gunnerud was appointed to the position
as resident projet oordinator and ommened his
duties in Phnom Penh on Deember 5th.
Mr. Gunnar V. Søiland held planning meetings with
the Diretor General o cNPA HE Mr. Te Duong Tara in
July and Otober where the various agreements and
ontrats were signed. NPD also attended Donors
ooperation meeting at the ADB and UNDP ofe in
Phnom Penh in order to assure that the Norwegian
unded projet are in line with other ongoing and
planned Tehnial assistane projets towards the
petroleum management in cambodia.
Plans 2007A series o workshops onerning legal advie is
planned or 2007 by the legal advisors rom Wikborg
Rein. The themes are: Drating a Petroleum at , creating
a downstream market or Natural Gas, Petroleum tax-
ation, OcA matters, establising o National Oil company,
Supply bases and ree trade zone, Government take
– seuring the values or the people o cambodia.
cooperation with UNDP will be established or support
to an important seminar in the later parts o 2007 on
cambodia’s management o potentially large inome
rom its petroleum reourses. Petrad may be involved
in ailitating high level leturers or this event.
Tehnial assistane and advie or the sta o cNPA
is also planned. This inludes ability to do geophysial
and geologial interpretation on digital workstations,
understanding and interpreting data and reports
reeived rom the industry.
Some unds will be spent to improve the IT-situation
at the cNPA ofe, primarily aess to the internet in
addition to opier/printer/sanner and a Pc.
