In the interest of petroleum exploration in the country, all current service contractors as well as geophysical survey contractors shall have exclusive right to the data and information generated during the geophysical survey, drilling, and/or production phase(s) of their operations undertaken pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 87, as amended.  Accordingly, said data and information are considered CONFIDENTIAL and, as such, they may not be made available to any outside parties until such time that the contract has elapsed and the area covering said data and information has been relinquished, in which case, the data and information may be declassified by the Department of Energy and made accessible to any interested party.  However, in its effort to promote petroleum exploration in the country, the Department of Energy has the prerogative to use these data, whether classified or declassified, in any technical cooperation projects that it is involved in, but this shall be done in cooperation and coordination with the current operator.

Adopted: 10 Nov. 1993

(Sgd.) RUFINO B. BOMASANG
Undersecretary