Hookup and commissioning has started for the newly installed central processing platform (CPP) at the Valeura Energy-operated Wassana Field in the Gulf of Thailand, according to the company's latest quarterly results report.
Development drilling from the new facility should start later this year.
Installing the CPP entails an imminent two-month shutdown of the field’s existing production facilities to execute associated upgrades to the Wassana FSO.
In other developments, at the Nong Yao A platform in license G11/48, four more wells slots have been added. A rig is mobilizing to the Nong Yao Field to drill three wells from the new slots.
During the third quarter, Valeura drilled the Manora-9 open water exploration well in the G1/48 license, 4.5 km northeast of the Manora-A platform. The well, and the sidetracks that followed, identified multiple oil-bearing sandstone intervals within separate fault blocks, deemed to be a new field known as Suraphi.
Valeura is assessing whether to proceed directly to a fast-track development or to commission further appraisal drilling nearby.
In addition, in offshore Blocks G1/65 and G3/65, the company and partner-operator PTTEP are working on the next phases of appraisal and exploration of several focus areas, drawing on 3D seismic data acquired in 2025.
