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Bukit Tua's first oil will be on March, says Petronas
Petronas Carigali Ketapang Ltd says it will begin the first oil production of its Bukit Tua field at the Ketapang block on the north coast of East Java in around March or April
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etronas Carigali Ketapang Ltd says it will begin the first oil production of its Bukit Tua field at the Ketapang block on the north coast of East Java in around March or April.
Petronas Carigali Ketapang Ltd general manager Hazli Sham B.Kassim said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the company was still carrying out the oil drilling process.
'We expect the 'first oil' in around March or April,' he said as quoted by Antara in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Hazli said in the first stage, Bukit Tua's production was expected to reach in between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels per day.
'It is expected that the production will increase in stages until it peaks at 20,000 barrels per day in October,' he said.
The Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) says Bukit Tua will also produce 20 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) in the first stage and is expected to reach its peak at 60 mmscfd.
The construction of Ratu Nusantara, the Bukit Tua's floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, has been completed at Keppel dockyard in Singapore in October 2014.
The FSPO, with 233 meters in length, 43 meters in width and 20 meters in height, has a capacity to process 25,000 barrels of oil, 77 mmscfd of gas and 20,000 barrels of water per day. This facility is designed to be able to store processed oil amounting up to 630,000 barrels before it is channeled to tanker vessels of the buyers. (ebf)(+++)
