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Total donates money to Burmese victims of the Nargis cyclone |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
€1.3 million donated to victims of the Nargis cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta.
Total SA, the only European oil company operating in Burma, has made a
$2 million (€1.3 million) donation to the Red Crescent’s emergency
appeal following the Nargis cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta
region. Total and its partners, the American Chevron Oil Company, and
a Thai company operate the Yadana gas project off southern Burma.
The company was quick to confirm that none of the nearly 300 employees
in the country, on a production platform in the Andaman Sea, at gas
pipeline metering facilities in the south near Ban-I-Tong on the border
with Thailand, or the company’s offices in Yangon (Rangoon) was injured
or killed.
Total’s Kanbauk base camp is 300km south of Yangon, and has an
airstrip, maintenance workshop and living accommodation. The living
facilities are modern and architecturally attractive, designed by a
Frenchman and constructed in imported South African timber resembling
teak. The camp is self-contained with Caterpillar diesel-electric
generators, medical facilities, water bore-holes and treatment plants.
by Brian Warshaw
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