The gas pipeline project has been postponed a number of times in view of the demonstrations against it from southern Thailand’s residents, who claim that the gas pipeline will threaten their way of life and destroy their food sources, as well as jeopardize the country’s food security. The gas pipeline network is managed by two joint-venture companies, one of which is in Malaysia and one in Thailand, formed by Petronas and Thailand’s state-owned oil company, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) on an equal basis. The pipeline system will connect the gas-separation plant in southern Thailand with a joint Thai-Malaysian gasfield in the Gulf of Thailand and with Malaysia’s pipeline system in the northern state of Kedah. The network proposal is part of the Trans-ASEAN gas pipeline, which has interconnected Malaysia to Singapore, Indonesia to Malaysia, Indonesia to Singapore, and Myanmar to Thailand. This story is courtesy of Alexander’s Gas & Oil Connections  www.gas-oil-power.com