Mubadala Energy has contracted Fugro to perform seabed soil studies for the South Andaman deepwater gas development in the Andaman Sea offshore Indonesia.
Results will support the front-end engineering design (FEED) engineering, procurement and construction award process, and the detailed design for the development of the Tangkulo Field.
Mubadala plans subsea wells connected via flowlines to an FPSO for gas processing and export through a dedicated pipeline to an onshore reception center in Aceh, Indonesia.
Fugro will deploy a deepwater ROV for acquiring the geo-data and its robotic Seafloor Drill 2 system from Indonesian support vessels.
EnQuest starts up Seligi 1b production
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, EnQuest has achieved first gas from its Seligi 1b project offshore Peninsular Malaysia, nine months ahead of schedule.
Following completion of the initial testing period, production should plateau at about 70 MMcf/d in January.
Earlier this year, the company completed the acquisition of Harbour Energy’s operated interest in the producing Chim Sáo and Dua fields in Block 12W offshore Vietnam. It has already invested in measures to improve delivery from three wells, increasing its net average production in October and November to about 5,600 boe/d.
Eni acquires Santos' Australia field interests
Finally, Santos has divested its 42.71% interest in the Petrel fields and 100% in the Tern fields, all in the Bonaparte Basin offshore Northern Australia, to Eni Australia.
The sale will help the company reduce its future decommissioning exposure.
