Offshore staff
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Shell Malaysia recently launched its billion-dollar Gumusut-Kakap FPS project in deepwater block K, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia Marine Heavy Engineering (MMHE) Sdn Bhd. won the award for the main floating, production, and storage platform contracts.
The company will build the 16,000-metric ton (17,637 ton), 80 x 80 m (262 x 262 ft) semisubmersible platform that will have 17,000-metric ton (18,739 ton) topsides and a production capacity of 140,000 b/d of oil.
MMHE chairman Mohammed Hassan Marican says Gumusut-Kakap is the company's second deepwater project in Malaysia and will be followed by two to three other deepwater developments planned in the coming years.
MMHE plans to cut the first steel in January.
The Gumusut-Kakap project is expected to be in production by 2009-2010.
12/05/2006
