PTTEOP subsidiary wins bid to explore for oil in new block in Malaysian sea

May 1, 2022

Dateline ???, The Star:

A subsidiary of the PTT Exploration and Production has won a bid to survey for oil and gas in a new block in Malaysia’s sea, PTTEP said on Wednesday (March 23).

PTTEP’s chief executive officer, Montri Rawanchaikul, said the company’s subsidiary, PTTEP HK Offshore Ltd, and its Malaysian partner, SapuraOMV Upstream, have signed a production-sharing contract with Petronas. The joint venture was awarded the right to survey in Block SB412, northwest of Sabah state.

Montri said the joint venture won the Malaysia Bid Round 2021 to win the right to carry out the survey and now PTTEP has had 12 survey contracts in Malaysia.


PETRONAS SIGNS PSCS FOR FIVE OFFSHORE BLOCKS

April 29, 2022

Dateline 2022-03-24, Natural Gas World:

Petronas has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) for five offshore exploration blocks, namely SB412, 2W and X located off the coast of Sabah, and SK439/SK440 located off the coast of Sarawak, the company said on March 23. The contracts were awarded in the Malaysia Bid Round (MBR) 2021.

Block SB412 in Sabah was signed between Petronas, PTTEP HK Offshore and SapuraOMV Upstream, while the PSCs for ultra-deepwater Blocks 2W and X were signed between Petronas, Sabah Shell Petroleum Company, Shell Sabah Selatan and Petronas Carigali.

The PSC for Sarawak’s Block SK439/SK440 was signed between Petronas, Sarawak Shell and Petroleum Sarawak Exploration & Production.


Jadestone gets approval for acquisition of Malaysia assets

July 30, 2021

Dateline 2021-07-16, ShareCast:

Asia-Pacific-focused oil and gas production company Jadestone Energy announced on Friday the satisfaction of all conditions required to complete its proposed acquisition of the peninsular Malaysia assets of SapuraOMV Upstream, including the approval of Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas.


SK408 Gas Fields Development Project, Offshore Sarawak

October 25, 2020

Dateline TBA, Offshore Technology:

SK408 gas fields development project is located within the SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, approximately 120km offshore Sarawak in Central Luconia Gas Province, Malaysia.

The project includes five natural gas and condensate fields, namely Gorek, Larak, Bakong, Teja, and Legundi.

The gas fields development project is being developed jointly by SapuraOMV Upstream (40%), Sarawak Shell Berhad (30%) and Petronas Carigali (30%). The phase one development of the SK408 project includes the commercialisation of the gas reserves from the Gorek, Bakong, and Larak fields.

The final investment decision (FID) on the development of the three fields under the first phase was made in April 2018.


Bakong gas field goes onstream offshore East Malaysia

October 12, 2020

Dateline 2020-09-03, Offshore:

 SapuraOMV Upstream says production is now stable from its Bakong gas field offshore Sarawak, which came onstream in June.

Bakong is part of the same SK408 production-sharing contract (PSC) as the company’s operated Larak gas field, which entered production started last December, and the Shell-operated Gorek field which came online this May.

Phase 1 of the SK408 development is now fully onstream. Under a long-term agreement with Petronas, the PSC partners are exporting the gas to the Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.


SapuraOMV and Partners’ First Production from SK408 Gas Fields

March 20, 2020

Dateline 2020-01-15, Energy Industry:

SapuraOMV Upstream announced first production following the start-up at the end of December, 2019 from its Larak gas field under the SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC), which was delivered within budget. The SK408 gas fields are part of discoveries made by SapuraOMV Upstream in a drilling campaign in 2014. The fields are tied back into an existing processing facility and gas is transported through existing pipelines for onward gas processing at PETRONAS LNG complex in Bintulu.


SapuraOMV Achieves First Gas from Larak Field Offshore Malaysia

March 18, 2020

Dateline 2020-01-13, Rigzone (what happened to their paywall?):

SapuraOMV Upstream has achieved within budget first production from its Larak gas field offshore Malaysia under the SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC).

The SK408 gas fields are part of discoveries made by SapuraOMV in a drilling campaign in 2014. They are tied back to an existing processing facility and gas is transported through existing pipelines for onward gas processing at Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu.


Sapura-OMV venture expects East Malaysian gas field output by year-end

November 11, 2019

Dateline 2019-09-06, Reuters:

A joint venture between Malaysia’s Sapura Energy and Austrian energy group OMV will achieve first production at an East Malaysian gas field in the fourth quarter of the year, the business said on Friday.

SapuraOMV, the joint venture, holds a 40 percent stake in the SK408 block, while a unit of Malaysian state energy company Petronas and a subsidiary of Shell hold 30 percent each.

Peak production from the block will be achieved by 2023, SapuraOMV’s chief executive, Muhammad Zamri Jusof, told reporters.