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Article: Transforming sleepy fishing village into major gas, petrochemical hub
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- April 12, 2002
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Saiful Azhar Abdullah; Zuraimi Abdullah
New Straits Times
04-12-2002
Transforming sleepy fishing village into major gas, petrochemical hub
Byline: Saiful Azhar Abdullah; Zuraimi Abdullah
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: National
KERTIH, Thurs. - The cause to make Malaysia an outstanding oil and gas and petrochemical hub led Petronas, being a conduit to nation building, to spend and transform the once sleepy and swampy fishing village of Kertih in Terengganu.
About RM70 billion worth of investments over 20 years later, Kertih has bee transformed into one of the world's biggest and perhaps busiest petrochemicals belts.
Covering 4,000ha, the Kertih integrated petroleum industry complex plays ...