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Harbour strikes gas with Timpan-1

well offshore Indonesia

PROJECTS & UK-LISTED Harbour Energy announced on and the full potential of the play across its entire
COMPANIES July 11 that it had made a natural gas and con- licence. Nonetheless, it has also identified the
densate discovery with the Timpan-1 well off- Canai Timur and Canai Barat structures in
shore Indonesia. the block, with similar play targets, based on
The well, which is located roughly 150 km pre-existing 2D seismic lines. These prospects
offshore Indonesia in the Andaman II produc- are seen as potential future drilling targets for
tion-sharing contract (PSC), was drilled in water the company.
depths of 4,245 feet (1,294 metres) to a total ver- The potential gas resource across the block
tical depth of 13,818 feet (4,212 metres) subsea. It is estimated at more than 6 trillion cubic feet
encountered a 390-foot (119-metre) gas column (170bn cubic metres).
in a high net-to-gross, fine-grained sandstone IHS Markit commented that its base assump-
reservoir, Harbour said. tion was that Timpan would be tied into exist-
In a drill stem test, the well flowed 27mn cubic ing onshore facilities and pipelines in order to
feet (764,640 metres) per day of gas and 1,884 supply Indonesia’s domestic market, potentially
barrels per day (bpd) of condensate through a displacing some LNG imports. The consultancy
56/64 inch choke. A full data acquisition pro- estimated that at a gas price of $5 per million
gramme has also been completed at the site, and British thermal units ($138.30 per 1,000 cubic
240 feet (73 metres) of core have been recovered. metres), Timpan would only require roughly
Timpan-1 is Harbour’s first, play-opening 580bn cubic feet (16.4 bcm) of recoverable gas
well in the Andaman Sea. The company cau- to be economical.
tioned that while the find represented a “mate- Industry sources were cited as saying the
rial gas accumulation”, more work is needed to discovery had no significant volumes of carbon
establish the commerciality of the discovery dioxide (CO2) or hydrogen sulphide (H2S).™

Samsung Engineering wins EPCC contract

for Shell gas plant in Malaysia

PROJECTS & SOUTH Korea’s Samsung Engineering towards an FID for Rosmari-Marjoram sour
COMPANIES announced on July 13 that it had been awarded gas project, along with the Timi sweet gas devel-
an engineering, procurement, construction and opment, both of which are located in Block SK
commissioning (EPCC) contract for an onshore 318 offshore Sarawak. Shell operates the block
gas plant at Shell’s Rosmari-Marjoram project in on behalf of its partner, Malaysia’s state-owned
Malaysia. Petronas. Combined output from both the Ros-
The contract is valued at around $680mn and mari-Marjoram and Timi projects is anticipated
the project will be executed in two phases – a to reach 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day
limited scope prior to Shell taking a final invest- (boepd) at its peak.
ment decision (FID) on Rosmari-Marjoram and Shell’s push to develop Rosmari-Marjoram is
all of the remaining scope after the FID has been part of a broader trend whereby Malaysia needs
taken. Samsung noted that it was able to receive to develop its sour gas fields to help maintain
the EPCC contract after also winning the dual LNG exports after many of its easiest-to-ex-
front-end engineering and design (FEED) con- ploit sweet gas fields have already been brought
tract for the project. online.
The plant for which Samsung won the EPCC In a recent report to investors, Shell said
contract will have the capacity to process up to Rosmari-Marjoram would represent the
800mn cubic feet (22.7mn cubic metres) per day first phase of the Sarawak Integrated Sour
of gas. The company anticipates that the gas plant Gas Evacuation System (SISGES), which will
will be ready for start-up by the end of 2025. include an offshore platform as well as the
The contract award comes as Shell works onshore gas plant in Bintulu.™

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