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Subject: Burma Yadana gas platform seen in place mid-year


Monday March 10 5:31 AM EST 

Burma Yadana gas platform seen in place mid-year

SINGAPORE, March 10 (Reuter) - At least one production platform for the
US$1.2 billion
Yadana gas field offshore Burma will be in place later this year, a senior
Unocal official
said on Monday. 

William Ichord, vice president, Washington office, told Reuters in an
interview in
Singapore the project was moving forward and first gas production remained
on course
for 1998. 

The project aims to provide 525 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of
natural gas to
Thailand via a 699-km (416-mile) pipeline under a 30-year period to power a
2,800
megawatt power station. 

A further 125 mmcfd will be provided to the Burma market via a 260 km (162 mile)
pipeline for a 700-megawatt power station and fertilizer plant near Rangoon. 

Unocal Corp has a 28.26 percent stake in the Yadana field, Total SA TOTF.SA
31.24
percent, Petroleum Authority of Thailand Exploration and Production Co
PTTE.BK 25.5
percent and Burma national oil company Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) 15
percent. 

Ichord said the section of pipeline crossing Burma to the Thai border had
been put in
place and was being welded and trenched. 

Unocal has just completed feasibility studies on the pipeline, power and
fertilizer plant
for Rangoon. 

--Singapore Newsroom (+65 870 3081)