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OceanMight wins contract for

Malaysia’s offshore Jerun gas field

PROJECTS & MALAYSIA’S OceanMight has been awarded The platform’s topsides will weigh about 15,000
COMPANIES a contract to provide equipment and services tonnes, the jacket roughly 10,000 tonnes and the
at the Jerun oilfield in the SK408 block offshore piles around 5,000 tonnes.
Sarawak by Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineer- The Jerun field is anticipated to enter ser-
ing (MMHE). vice in 2024 and will produce up to 500mn
According to OceanMight’s parent company, cubic feet (14.2mn cubic metres) per day of
KKB Engineering, the scope of work under the gas. Output will be sent to Petronas’ Bintulu
contract’s terms covers the provision of fabrica- LNG complex to use as feedstock. Petronas is
tion engineering, supervision, manpower, equip- relying on the development and commercial-
ment and tools and consumables for the “piles isation of Jerun and other gas fields offshore
fabrication, loadout and sail away” of the Jerun Sarawak – including Pegaga, Kasawari and
A CPP jacket. Lang Lebah – over the next 3-5 years to boost
The contract began in February this year and its LNG exports.
is due to be completed by February 2023. KKB SapuraOMV operates Block SK408 with a
did not specify the value of the contract, but local 40% interest, while Shell and Petronas Carigali
media reported that it was worth MYR23.7mn each hold 30% stakes in the block.
($5.7mn). There are several other gas discoveries within
MMHE was awarded the main contract, the block that SapuraOMV – a joint venture
worth MYR1bn ($238mn), to build the central between Malaysia’s Sapura Energy and Austria’s
processing platform for the Jerun field in April OMV – is developing. The joint venture achieved
2021. As of the end of December, MMHE had first production from the block in 2020 with the
completed 17% of the work under that contract. start-up of the Larak gas field.™

McDermott completes subsea work at Bayu-

Undan as Santos kicks off CCS FEED

PROJECTS & MCDERMOTT International announced on execution of its contract. Recovery and reuse of
COMPANIES March 10 that it had completed subsea work existing flowlines was a “significant factor” in
under its engineering, procurement, construc- enabling the work to be completed on schedule,
tion and installation (EPCI) contract, awarded within nine months of being awarded the con-
by Australia’s Santos for the Bayu-Undan tract, it added.
project. Meanwhile, Santos has entered the front-
The Bayu-Undan field is one of Timor- end engineering and design (FEED) phase of
Leste’s largest gas fields, located in the Timor Sea a proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS)
around 200 km off the country’s south-east coast project at Bayu-Undan. The project would have
Bayu-Undan provides and roughly 500 km off the north-west coast of the capacity to store up to 10mn tonnes per year
feedstock gas to the Darwin, Australia. It supplies feedstock gas to (tpy) of carbon dioxide (CO2) and would also
Darwin LNG project in the Darwin LNG terminal, which is also oper- serve Darwin LNG.
Australia. ated by Santos. Santos said in a March 9 statement that the
The work McDermott was carrying out was FEED work would include engineering and
for the infill well Phase 3C project at the field. design for additional CO2 processing capacity
Work on Phase 3C began in May 2021 and ended at Darwin LNG as well as the repurposing of the
in December, McDermott said. The company’s Bayu-Undan facilities for carbon sequestration
scope of work involved the tieback of a single operations after gas production from the field
in-field well to existing facilities, re-using exist- ends.
ing flexible flowline, with a new umbilical and The company believes the CCS project has
certain infrastructure. the potential to be one of the largest in the world,
McDermott said recovery of existing flexible and has talked up the scheme’s potential to cre-
flowlines, flushing to clear hydrocarbons, re-lay- ate jobs and provide a new revenue stream for
ing and a tieback from a new in-field well to the Timor-Leste once Bayu-Undan is no longer pro-
existing Bayu-Undan facility were all key to the ducing gas.™

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