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PTTEP awards FEED for Malaysian gas plant

ENERGY THAI oil group PTTEP has hired France’s partner reported a large gas discovery at the Lang
TRANSITION 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-
The FEED contract Malaysia that will be equipped with CO2 capture est ever gas find. According to Petronas, the well
covers the design of the capabilities. was tested and flowed at a rate of 50mn cubic feet
Lang Lebah Onshore The FEED contract covers the design of per day (517 mcm per year).
Gas Plant 2. the Lang Lebah Onshore Gas Plant 2 (OGP2), WoodMackenzie 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 into investment decision on development is expected
storage. Gas arriving from the Lang Lebah field in 2023, and production is set to start three years
will be treated before being delivered to the later.
Malaysian LNG terminal. The deal with Technip Energies comes less
Technip Energies noted that Lang Lebah than a month after PTTPE 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 subsid-
(SISGES) plan, aimed at further development of iary of Malaysia’s Ranhill. That contract, val-
untapped source gas resources off the coast of ued at around $9.5mn, covered designs for a
Sarawak. central processing platform and jackets, two
The Lang Lebah field is situated in shallow wellhead platforms and jackets, a flare plat-
water some 90 km offshore from Sarawak, span- form, trunk lines, an intra-field pipeline and
ning a 1,870-square km area. PTTEP and its two bridges. ™

Petronas declared force majeure on

Malaysian LNG exports

PIPELINES & MALAYSIA’S Petronas has declared a force pipeline leak had had an impact on delivery
TRANSPORT majeure on supplies from its Malaysian LNG commitments under its contracts, and that it
facility following a pipe leak, the company said was in discussions to “identify suitable mitiga-
The leak was caused last week, further exacerbating global supply tion efforts.”
by a soil movement at constraints. PLC has an overall liquefaction capacity
the Sabah-Sarawak gas The leak was caused by a soil movement at the of 25.7mn tonnes per year, making it one of
pipeline on September Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline on September 21. the largest LNG facilities in the world. Besides
21. “This has impacted the supply of gas to MLNG MLNG Dua, it also comprises the MLNG Satu
Dua’s production facility at Petronas LNG Com- and MLNG Tiga facilities. The most recent of its
plex (PLC) in Bintulu, Sarawak,” Petronas said, trains started up in 2017.
adding that the force majeure only affected the All told, Petronas shipped 201 LNG cargoes
MLNG facility. “The other LNG production from the PLC complex in the first half of this
facilities within the PLC continue to operate as year. ™
planned.”
Petronas did not say how much supply would
be affected, nor how long the disruption would
continue. However, MLNG Dua has three trains
with a total liquefaction capacity of 9.6mn
tonnes per year.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp said earlier this
month that Malaysia LNG, majority-owned by
Petronas, had reported a force majeure on LNG
supplies to its customers. Besides Mitsubishi,
MLNG Dua’s customers include Eneos, Jera,
Sendai City Gas, Shizuoka Gas, Tohoku Electric
and Tokyo Gas, according to GIIGNL data.
In its statement, Petronas said that the

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