Petronas Produces Gas from Berantai field

Petronas has successful produced gas from the Berantai field and has announced drilling and testing of the first well at the Balai Cluster, Malaysia’s first and second Risk Service Contract (RSC) areas.

Berantai field was successfully brought on stream on 20 October. The gas is currently being exported at a rate of 50 mmscfd from the field’s first three wells and is expected to achieve 80 mmscfd with the addition of two wells by end of this year, the company said. The gas is processed at the Berantai FPSO and exported to the existing onshore terminal at Kerteh.

The company has also discovered gas at Tembakau-1 in offshore Block PM307.

Tembakau-1, a vertical exploration well drilled to a depth of 1,565 metres, encountered 60 meters of total net gas sand with preliminary gas initially in-place (GIIP) volume of 600 billion standard cubic feet. Subsequent work will commence to estimate the range of recoverable resource volumes. The well is operated by Lundin Malaysia (75%) with Petronas (25%) as a partner.