INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) held in Parliament.The meeting was headed by Member of Parliament Lasantha Alagiyawanna, to examine the
Committee is Member of Parliament (Prof.) Tissa Vitarana.According to the findings of the Committee on Public Accounts held in 2016, the
Chief Accounting Officer had mentioned that there were about 5 billion barrels of fuel and about 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the
sectors within a span of 25 years.However, COPA questioned the officials present on their failure to explore this area and plan out a proper
procedure to obtain the revenue that could have been brought to the country from various sectors by commercially producing gas from the two
employees of the Sri Lanka Petroleum Development Authority was not sufficient to deal with this matter.The modernization and expansion of
a feasibility study has been carried out to set up a new oil refinery at the Sapugaskanda site
COPA recommended that a report be submitted in this regard.Furthermore, vacancies in the staff and the daily oil requirement of the country
were also discussed.State Minister, B
Rathnasekara, and Members of Parliament Duminda Dissanayake, Tissa Attanayake, Ashok Abeysinghe, (Dr.) Sudarshini Fernandopulle and Cader
Mastan were present at the meeting.
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