Row Intensifies Over Philippine Oil Privatisation

 23 July 1987  Reuters News English  (c) 1987 Reuters Limited  MANILA, July 23 – A row over the proposed privatisation of Petron Corp, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Philippine National Oil Co (PNOC), intensified as the Committee on Privatisation (COP) said overwhelming arguments favour the sale.  PNOC’s board of directors last month opposed Petron’s sale,…