From Reuters – Malaysia’s 1st deepwater oilfield producing less-media


I think Kikeh is due for a makeover (or is that workover?). Dateline 2011-06-14:

Malaysia’s first deepwater field is producing less than expected due to sand in the oil although output should recover by this year, the Business Times reported on Wednesday, citing its operator Murphy Oil Corp .

“The workover programme should be completed this year and production rates back to the planned level,” a Murphy spokesman was quoted as saying.

“We have three well shut-ins due to fines migration coming through the sandscreens and being produced with the oil. It is important to keep the fines materials out of the surface process equipment.”

Murphy was not immediately available for comment.

Murphy’s Kikeh field offshore Malaysia’s Borneo state of Sabah has a current gross production of around 52,000 barrels of oil per day. The report did not say how much production had dropped to.

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