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ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ေတြကေန တစ္ႏွစ္ကို အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ဘီလီယံ ၁၅၀ ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ဆံုးရႈံးေနတယ္ လို႕ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႕ တြက္ျပခဲ့ဘူးပါတယ္။ အခုထိုင္းက ေနာက္တစ္ခ်ီ ထည္႕ျပန္ၿပီဗ်ား။ စစ္ေခြးေတြ တြက္တတ္ရင္ တြက္ၾကည္႕ပါလားဗ်ာ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ႏိုင္ငံ ပ်ံလန္ေနေအာင္ ေနႏိုင္ရက္သားနဲ႕ စစ္ေခြး မ်ားလက္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ဖြတ္ဖြတ္ညက္ညက္ေၾကရတာ ရင္နာဘို႕ေကာင္းလိုက္ေလဗ်ား။

BANGKOK : A Thai energy firm has signed a major deal to drill for natural gas in military-ruled Myanmar, an official with the company said Wednesday. The agreement - to develop the M9 block in the Gulf of Martaban - was signed by PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) with Myanmar's military government in the country's remote capital Naypyidaw on Monday, the official told AFP. The official declined to reveal the value of the deal, but Thailand's The Nation newspaper reported it would entail an investment of about two billion dollars. Under the deal, PTTEP will work with the state-run Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise to develop the field, the Thai firm's CEO Anon Sirisaengtaksin said in a statement to the stock exchange. The field is expected to produce 300 million cubic feet of gas per day, with 80 percent exported to Thailand and the rest supplying Myanmar, the statement said. Thai energy minister Poonpirom Liptapanlop said in a statement that the deal "is very important and beneficial for Thailand to obtain natural gas to supply its rising energy needs, and to enhance the country's long-term energy security". Energy-hungry Thailand imports about 20 percent of its gas from Myanmar and is vying for a bigger share of its vast natural resources. State media in Myanmar previously estimated the M9 block contained 8.0 trillion cubic feet of gas. According to 2006 official figures, 13 foreign oil companies are working on 33 projects in the country.