Premier Hun Sen announced that the kingdom had extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, a long-awaited milestone for one of South-East Asia’s poorest nations.
The Gulf of Thailand boasts significant oil deposits, with Chevron oil company first finding proven reserves off Cambodia in 2005.
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