Total Indonesie, Indonesia's largest gas producer
Total Indonesie, Indonesia's largest gas producer
Total Indonesie is the largest gas producer in Indonesia after the production start up of the Peciko field. With certified gas reserves of 6.2 TCF, equivalent to 1.2 billion barrels of oil, Peciko ranks among the top gas fields discovered worldwide in the past 10 years.
Initial production started at 400 mmscfd and quickly increased to 800 mmscfd of gas with about 16,000 b/d of condensate. At this level, overall hydrocarbon production is 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
The Peciko field is situated offshore East Kalimantan. Gas is treated onshore at the Senipah terminal and sent to the Bontang liquefaction plant. Bontang's eighth liquefaction train was commissioned last November, increasing the plant's total annual capacity to 26 million metric tons, making it the world's largest LNG plant to date.
This has also reinforced East Kalimantan's position as Indonesia's most prolific gas province, with reserves reaching 51.8 TCF, of which 19.5 TCF are still uncommitted.
The Peciko project was launched in 1996 to increase Total Indonesie gas production capacity corresponding to new gas commitments. Production began in December. On Jan. 7, the first two-Manifold Wellhead Platforms came on line.
Peciko field's current development phase I has reached its targeted production. The next stage of field development will comprise installing a third offshore wellhead platform and drilling nine additional development wells, increasing the field's maximum potential to 1,000 mmscfd. Phase II should be completed by the end of 2001.
To meet Total Indonesie's contractual obligations in the East Kalimantan gas supply scheme, it is planned by 2004 to further increase the maximum deliverability of the field up to 1,300 mmscfd and its average rate up to 950 mmscfd.
Total Indonesie, incorporated in August 1968, is a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalFina Elf, an integrated enterprise with operations across the entire oil and gas chain, from upstream exploration, development of reserves and production to downstream transportation, global trading, refining, petrochemicals production and oil product marketing.
Total Indonesie is in partnership with state-owned oil company Pertamina as a production-sharing contractor in the search for and development of Indonesia's vast hydrocarbon reserves.