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project from 13,000 to around 6,000 in March, In the offshore, BP is establishing two off-
before slowly ramping up the numbers again. shore platforms, 13 production wells, an
The project consists of onshore and offshore expanded LNG loading facility as well as sup-
components, with Sutjipto saying this week that porting infrastructure.
work of the former was 89.58% complete, while The project, which carries an estimated
work on the offshore stage was 99.19% finished. price tag of $8.9bn, is anticipated to produce
Train 3’s onshore development involves the 700mn cubic feet (19.82mn cubic metres)
construction of a 3.8mn tonne per year liquefac- per day of gas and 3,000 barrels per day
tion plant, which will bring total plant capacity to (bpd) of condensate.
11.4mn tpy. The project also includes an onshore Indonesia sold 46.2 standard LNG cargoes
gas receiving facility, LNG and condensate load- in the first quarter of 2021, SKK Migas deputy
ing berth, boil-off gas recovery, utilities, flares head Arief Handoko told the same briefing. Of
and associated infrastructure. this figure, 29.3 cargoes were exported.
Texcal ramps up oil
production onshore Indonesia
PROJECTS & TEXCAL Mahato has successfully brought on
COMPANIES stream a new oil producing well at the Mahato
production-sharing contract (PSC) onshore
Indonesia.
Junior partner Cue Energy, a Southeast-Asia
focused independent, said on April 28 that the
PB-5 well had demonstrated a gross flow rate
of around 1,000 barrels per day (bpd) during
testing of the Bekasap C reservoir. The well has
now been completed as an oil producer and con-
nected to the production system.
Texcal, a unit of Sabson Energy, operates the
5,600-square km Mahato PSC in the Central
Sumatra Basin with a 41% stake. Cue, itself a
subsidiary of New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG),
owns a 12.5% interest, while Bukit Energy Cen- Image: NZOG
tral Sumatra owns 25% and Central Sumatra
Energy Mahato has 11.5%
PB-5’s success is a significant step forward
for the field, which had been producing around
1,500 bpd from the PB-1 and PB-2 wells.
Cue said PB-5 was drilled to a measured Cue CEO Matthew Boyall said: “We look for-
depth of 5,873 feet (1,790 metres) and had suc- ward to the results of the remaining two devel-
cessfully intersected and logged the oil-bearing opment wells in the current programme, PB-4
Bekasap A, B and C reservoirs, which are present and PB-3”.
in the first two wells. Cue announced in January that PB-1 had
With PB-5 connected as a producer, the rig entered commercial production, delivering 600
will now move to PB-4, where it will undertake bpd of oil that was being processed and exported
testing and completion activities. through “existing third-party facilities”.
Although PB-4 was drilled in March, success- PB-1 and PB-2 were drilled as exploration
fully intersecting and logging the three reser- wells in late 2019 and early 2020, with the Indo-
voirs in the process, Cue said operational issues nesian government declaring in April 2020 that
had prevented the well from being completed, the field was a 61.8mn barrel oil discovery.
prompting Texcal to move on to PB-5.
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