Another explosion occurs along Sarawak-Sabah interstate gas pipeline


Workers working in Baram district at an underground section of the interstate Sarawak-Sabah gas pipeline project.

MIRI: An explosion occurred along a section of the RM4bil Sarawak-Sabah interstate gas pipeline located in the remote jungles of Baram early Monday (Jan 13).

The pre-dawn incident happened not far from Long Kawa, a Penan settlement located in the Telang Usan state constituency, about eight hours by timber road from here, sources told The Star.

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Gas pipeline , Sabah , Sarawak , Explosion , Petronas

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