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told e Economic Times that the latest dead- line had been pushed back because of antici- pated heavy rains.
ONGC moved 35 offshore drilling rigs to new locations ahead of India’s monsoon season, Aqualis O shore revealed in June. e number was a record high for the company.
e Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has cited the project’s delay as one of the main reasons for ONGC’s weakening crude oil pro- duction. Output in the first three months of
2019-2020 shrank by 5% to 5.14mn tonnes (414,000 barrels per day) from 5.39mn tonnes (434,000 bpd) in the same period of 2017-2018.
Once nished, the MOPU will be deployed in the WO-16 eld cluster, which lies close to the proli c Mumbai High complex. ONGC has said previously that 15 wells have been drilled and completed and will begin produc- tion as soon as they can be connected to the platform. WO-16’s oil output has been pro- jected at 15,000 bpd.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Pertamina ramps up oil spill efforts
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
INDONESIA’S state-owned Pertamina is ramp- ing up e orts to clean up an oil spill in the Java Sea a er admitting that it will be weeks before it can fully shut the leaking well.
e company has installed ve high-speed water skimmers to remove the oil from the sea’s surface, it said on July 28. It has also put up 2km of static oil booms around the YYA platform, which is located in the O shore North West Java (ONWJ) block, o Karawang Regency.
Pertamina said it had mobilised 32 vessels to combat the oil spill and provide re ghting assistance. It added that 800 people and more than 100 military personnel were involved in cleaning up oil spills at several beaches in the regency. A gas kick that occurred at the YYA-1 well on July 12 worsened two days later and led to the oil spill.
e announcement of its beefed-up oil spill response came a er Pertamina warned on July 25 that it would not be able to stop the oil and gas leak completely for another eight weeks.
e spill has reached villages on the coast of the Karawang area, 2 km away from the YYA platform facility, Pertamina upstream director Dharmawan Samsu said. e executive added that the company had installed a 3.5-km con- tainment boom at sea and a 3-km boom and 700 metres of sh nets along the shoreline.
“The cause is still being thoroughly and deeply investigated. Early indications showed
pressure anomalies that resulted in gas bubbles, followed by [the] oil spill,” Samsu said.
Samsu added that YYA-1 had not been brought on stream, but had been expected to produce 3,000 barrels per day of crude and 20-40mn cubic feet (566,000-1.12mn cubic metres) per day of natural gas in September. e executive added that the company had isolated two other wells at the eld that were waiting to be reactivated. ese will not be connected until a er the result of an investigation.
e Energy Ministry’s acting director-gen- eral for oil and gas, Djoko Siswanto, said shortly a er the oil leak began that while the authorities did not know why the gas kick had occurred, an investigation would be launched as soon as the oil spill had been stopped.
Indonesia’s state-owned Pertamina has enlisted the help of the Transportation Ministry as well as US oil spill specialist Boot & Coots to help deal with the spill.
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