Yadana Project

Yadana Project

The Yadana Project is a project to carry natural gas from the Yadana gas field in the Andaman Sea to Thailand through Myanmar. The Yadana gas field is located about 60 km offshore to the nearest landfall in Myanmar cite web | author=Total | title=Yadana Project |url=http://burma.total.com |accessdate=2007-12-18 ] . The Yadana Project is operated by Total S.A., a French energy group, with Unocal Corporation, a United States based company, as its junior partner along with PTT, a Thai state-owned oil and gas company, and Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), a state-owned enterprise of Myanmar cite web | author=Environment News Service | title=Unocal Settles Out of Court With Myanmar Villagers |url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2004/2004-12-17-02.asp |accessdate=2007-12-18 ] . This project has been subject to much criticism in the international community, particularly because companies of democratic nations invested in a regime that has been noted for its human rights violations.cite web | author=EarthRights International| title=Yadana Natural Gas Pipeline Project|url=http://www.earthrights.org/site_blurbs/yadana_natural_gas_pipeline_project.html |accessdate=2007-12-18] The State Law and Order Restoration Council came under intense scrutiny for their human rights abuses during the construction of the pipeline and their involvement in the project led to a landmark lawsuit being filed against Unocal [cite journal| date = November 1996 - February 1997| title = Thailand's Yadana pipeline: Proposed route starts controversy| journal = Watershed: People's Forum on Ecology| volume = 2| issue = 2| url = http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199701/msg00116.html| accessdate = 2008-01-11] .

The Yadana natural gas field contains more than 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas and has an expected field life of over 30 years cite web | author=Total | title=Yadana Project |url=http://burma.total.com |accessdate=2007-12-18 ] . In 2005, the output averaged 18.5 million cubic meters per day.

The Yadana Pipeline is convert|256|mi|km long, most of which underwater, with the final convert|40|mi|km crossing over southern Myanmar in a region inhabited by the Karen, a minority ethnic group hostile to the governmentcite web | author=Manuel Velasquez | title=Unocal in Burma|url=http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/Unocal-in-Burma.html |accessdate=2007-12-18 ] . Construction of the pipeline was completed in 1998 and had cost $1.2 billion cite web | author=Environment News Service | title=Unocal Settles Out of Court With Myanmar Villagers |url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2004/2004-12-17-02.asp |accessdate=2007-12-18 ] .

ee also

*Total S.A.
*Unocal Corporation
*Alien Tort Claims Act

References

External links

* [http://burma.total.com/en/gazier/p_2_2.htm Total's Description of the Yadana Project]
* [http://www.earthrights.org/site_blurbs/yadana_natural_gas_pipeline_project.html EarthRight International's Description of the Yadana Project]


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