"This Burma (Myanmar) History Thread on resource extraction describes the #petroleum (oil and gas) sector. Oil & gas deposits found in Cenozoic sedimentary rock in Central Burma/Myanmar from Sagaing Div. to Irrawaddy Delta. Offshore gas fields in Andaman Sea & Bay of Bengal. Burma had one of earliest petroleum industries, mainly for boat-caulking. Yenangyaung described by Baker 1755 as workers “getting Earth-oil out of Pitts.” Dug by hand, workers lowered in by rope. 1795 Symes wrote of “the celebrated wells” oil shipped far away in pottery jars..."