Pertamina, Expan find Sulawesi gas

Pertamina, Expan find Sulawesi gas

JAKARTA: State-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina and its local
partner PT Expan Tomori Sulawesi have discovered gas reserves
amounting to 1.07 trillion cubic feet (TCF) in the Senoro-Toili
block, Banggai regency, Central Sulawesi.

Pertamina said in statement that the new reserves was found
after the two firms's joint venture, better known in the industry
as a "Joint Operating Body" (JOB), had completed drilling in the
Senoro 3 well recently.

The layer test of the well discharged some 12 million cubic
feet per day (MMCFD) of gas and 237 barrels of condensate per
day, it said.

According to Pertamina, the total gas reserves found by the
JOB in the block had now reached 4 TCF.

The JOB would conduct further drilling starting in August to
help increase the reserves, it added. --JP