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The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing to bid out up to 10 coal exploration contracts by next month, a ranking DOE official said.
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                    [Title] => Department of Energy halts new oil, gas drillings
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New oil and gas drillings in the country will temporarily be halted after the Department of Energy (DOE) postponed the public contracting rounds on oil and gas contracts pending the resolution of a dispute with the Commission on Audit (COA).
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                    [Title] => DOE offers 10 areas for exploration
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The Department of Energy (DOE) will offer 10 more oil and gas exploration blocks under the third Public Contracting Round (PCR), aiming to raise more than $200-million worth of investments in these areas, a ranking DOE official said.


In an interview with reporters, Energy Undersecretary Guillermo Balce said they would announce the start of PCR 3 by December this year.


He said it would take at least six months to complete the process. By July 2007, he said they expect to award the contracts to the investors.


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                    [Title] => DOE concludes RP’s first petroleum contracting round
                    [Summary] => The Department of Energy (DOE) successfully concluded yesterday the country’s first Philippine Petroleum Contracting Round (PCR-1) with at least 16 companies expressing interest in the bidding. 


The DOE, however, did not disclose the actual number of bidders for the contracting round. 


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                    [Title] => Spex eyes strategic partner for South China venture
                    [Summary] => Shell Petroleum Exploration B.V. (Spex) is open to the idea of getting a strategic partner in its exploration venture in South China Sea. 


Spex managing director Jeremy Cliff told reporters that the company has been planning to farm out a portion of their geophysical exploration contract (GSEC) 99 South of Palawan. 


"We are willing to find a potential partner.  We plan to make GSEC 99 another Malampaya type," he said. 


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                    [Title] => DOE set to award 3 new oil exploration contracts
                    [Summary] => The Department of Energy (DOE) is set to award three new oil exploration contracts in the next 30 days, an energy official said. 


"We are working on three applications for a service contract (SC).  We will come up with the decision in a month’s time or in the next 30 days," Energy Undersecretary Eduardo Manalac said.


Manalac said these SCs are not part of the exploration blocks to be auctioned off under the Philippine Contracting Round (PCR-I). "These will be outside the Sulu and Palawan blocks," he said. 


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                    [Title] => 5 firms keen on RP oil, gas reserves
                    [Summary] => About five firms have expressed interest in  oil and gas reserves in the Philippines, a Department of Energy (DOE) official said.


"These firms are known players in Southeast Asia.  They signified interest to attend the contracting round," Energy Undersecretary Eduardo Mañalac said.


By Aug. 5 this year, the DOE will start the technical, legal and financial evaluation of hydro-carbon (natural gas) potential in the country as part of the so-called First Philippine Petroleum Public Contracting Round (PCR-1). 


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                    [Title] => DOE sets bidding for 46 new oil, gas search projects
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The public bidding called First Philippine Petroleum Public Contracting Round (PCR-1) is a new mechanism of awarding concessions in oil and gas explorations  in  the Northwest Palawan and vast frontier areas in Southwest and East Palawan, Sulu Sea and Reed Bank.


PCR-1 replaced the DOE’s current licensing procedure grants on a "first-come, first-served basis" negotiations. 


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SOUTHWEST AND EAST PALAWAN

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The Department of Energy (DOE) will offer 10 more oil and gas exploration blocks under the third Public Contracting Round (PCR), aiming to raise more than $200-million worth of investments in these areas, a ranking DOE official said.


In an interview with reporters, Energy Undersecretary Guillermo Balce said they would announce the start of PCR 3 by December this year.


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                    [Title] => DOE set to award 3 new oil exploration contracts
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"We are working on three applications for a service contract (SC).  We will come up with the decision in a month’s time or in the next 30 days," Energy Undersecretary Eduardo Manalac said.


Manalac said these SCs are not part of the exploration blocks to be auctioned off under the Philippine Contracting Round (PCR-I). "These will be outside the Sulu and Palawan blocks," he said. 


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PCR-1 replaced the DOE’s current licensing procedure grants on a "first-come, first-served basis" negotiations. 


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