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5 unusual facts about Petronas


Carl Fogarty

Petronas ended the project at the end of 2006, leaving Foggy's racing future unclear.

Kerteh Airport

The airport is owned and operated by Petroleum Nasional Berhad or Petronas via its East Coast Regional Office (ECRO), and was built to serve the purpose of airlifting its employees and ExxonMobil employees to their various oil platforms located 100–200 km offshore South China Sea.

The airport also used to have a weekday fixed-wing chartered service using a Beechcraft 1900 Airliner turboprop aircraft, also operated by MHS, which shuttles Petronas and ExxonMobil employees from Kerteh to the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) in Subang near Kuala Lumpur.

Petronas

Other promotional events are held in the run up to the race and the drivers play an integral part in this so much so that Nick Heidfeld conceded that there were more fans for BMW Sauber in Malaysia than in most other countries.

It also owned 40% of Sauber Petronas Engineering, the company that builds chassis which formerly utilized Ferrari designed engines used by the Sauber team, until being bought out by German motor company BMW.


Economy of Malaysia

Malaysia and Thailand has a wedge shaped area 150 km from Kota Bharu, Kelantan and 260 km from the shores of Songkhla, Thailand which is jointly developed by Petronas and its Thailand counterpart.

Economy of Mauritania

Nouakchott's authorities declared that the government would likely seek international arbitration, which Woodside (which operated for Hardman, BG Group, Premier Oil, ROC Oil, Fusion, Petronas, Dana Petroleum, Energy Africa and the Hydrocarbons Mauritanian Society) also contemplated.

Energy in Sudan

According to Transparency International, companies operating in Sudan (based on reporting in 2009) included four national companies: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC, the Indian NOC) and Petronas (Petroliam Nasional Berhad).

Iveco

On January 15, 2012, Iveco won the 33rd edition of the Dakar rally with the Petronas De Rooy team and the Dutch driver Gerard De Rooy, behind the wheel of an Iveco Powerstar.

Mountune Racing

To date, Mountune has supplied engines for road and rally racing, supporting championship teams from Ford, Formula Palmer Audi, Ascari and Petronas/Proton.

Petronas Towers

In the 2002 Eidos video game Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the Malaysia levels Basement Killing, The Graveyard Shift, & The Jacuzzi Job all take place in the Petronas Towers.

Politics of Mauritania

Nouakchott's authorities declared that the government would likely seek international arbitration, which Woodside (which operated for Hardman, BG Group, Premier, ROC Oil, Fusion, Petronas, Dana Petroleum, Energy Africa and the Hydrocarbons Mauritanian Society) also contemplated.


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