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PTTEP awards FEED for
Malaysian gas plant with CCS
MALAYSIA THAI oil group PTTEP has hired France’s partner reported a large gas discovery at the Lang
Technip Energies for front-end engineering Lebah-2 well in February last year, with PTTEP
design (FEED) work on an onshore gas plant in CEO hailing it at the time as the company’s larg-
Malaysia that will be equipped with CO2 capture est ever gas find. According to Petronas, the well
capabilities. was tested and flowed at a rate of 50mn cubic feet
The FEED contract covers the design of per day (517mn cubic metres per year).
the Lang Lebah Onshore Gas Plant 2 (OGP2), Wood Mackenzie described the discovery as
including integrated CO2 capture, compression the seventh-largest made in the world in 2019,
and transportation via pipeline to an offshore with 2 trillion cubic feet of resources. A final
wellhead platform, where it will be injected investment decision (FID) on development is
into storage. Gas arriving from the Lang Lebah expected in 2023, and production is set to start
field will be treated before being delivered to the three years later.
Malaysian LNG terminal. The deal with Technip Energies comes less
Technip Energies noted that Lang Lebah than a month after PTTEP also awarded FEED
OGP2 served as one of the key projects in the work for offshore facilities at Lang Lebah to
Sarawak Integrated Sour Gas Evacuation System Perunding Ranhill Worley (PRW), a subsidi-
(SISGES) plan, aimed at further development of ary of Malaysia’s Ranhill. That contract, valued
untapped source gas resources off the coast of at around $9.5mn, covered designs for a central
Sarawak. processing platform and jackets, two wellhead
The Lang Lebah field is situated in shallow platforms and jackets, a flare platform, trunk
water some 90 km offshore from Sarawak, span- lines, an intra-field pipeline and two bridges.
ning a 1,870-square km area. PTTEP and its
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