Total Indonesie enhances RI LNG export capability
Total Indonesie enhances RI LNG export capability
Total Indonesie, a subsidiary of a major international oil and
gas company based in Paris, has been operating in Indonesia since
1968 under a Production Sharing Contract with Pertamina. At its
initial stages, Total Indonesie was active mainly in producing
crude oil from the Handil and Bekapai fields. However a major
shift occurred, with the development of gas reserves at the Tunu
and Peciko fields in the Makassar Strait off the east coast of
Kalimantan.
Stretching 80 kilometers from north to south across the
Mahakam River delta, the Tunu Field, discovered in 1977, started
producing gas in 1990, which was eventually delivered to Bontang.
Significant deliveries of the early 1990s resulted in subsequent
development phases of Tunu. Mid-1998 saw the completion of Phase
IV of the Tunu Development Project, which produces and delivers
gas to the seventh gas liquefaction train -- Train G (a set of
equipment that performs the job of purifying and liquefying at
minus 160 degrees Celsius a single stream of natural gas once it
has been separated from heavier hydrocarbon components, including
crude oil or condensate) -- in Bontang.
The Peciko Field, discovered in 1991, is located offshore
about 60 km northeast of the city of Balikpapan. Development work
of this field is expected to be completed by September 1999 with
the construction of two offshore gas manifold-wellhead platforms,
two subsea pipelines to the shore (25 km and 27 km respectively),
a processing plant and an 86-km pipeline to the Badak Gas Plant,
located 65 km from Bontang. This gas plant coordinates the feed
gas delivery to the liquefaction plant.
The development of these gas reserves has made Total Indonesie
a major gas producer, set to supply more than 75 percent of the
feed gas to the Bontang Liquefaction Plant by the turn of the
century. Given the existing LNG commitments, after the completion
of LNG Train H and the Peciko Field development, Total Indonesie
is expected to be the number one gas producer in the country.
This will enable Indonesia to boost its LNG exports from the
Bontang Liquefaction Plant with an additional export capacity of
about three million metric tons per year, making Bontang the
largest producing LNG plant in the world.