Hess Starts Gas Production from NMB Phase 3 Project Offshore Malaysia

December 13, 2022

Dateline 2022-09-23, OE:

U.S. oil firm Hess has started gas production from the North Malay Basin (NMB) Phase 3 project in Block PM302, located 290 kilometres offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas shared the news of production startup on Monday.

Block PM302 is operated by Hess Corporation’s subsidiary, Hess Exploration and Production Malaysia B.V. (Hess) with a 50 percent participating interest, in partnership with Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, which owns the remaining 50 percent.


North Malay Basin platforms deliver first gas

August 27, 2017

Dateline 2017-07-27, Offshore Mag:

Gas production has started from the Hess-operated North Malay Basin full-field development in the Gulf of Thailand, following hookup of the topsides for the central processing platform.

Commissioning activities continue.

Hess expects its net production to ramp up shortly to around 165 MMcf/d.

North Malay Basin comprises nine gas fields in block PM302 with combined recoverable reserves of over 1.5 tcf of gas and over 20 MMbbl of condensate.