Marine survey underway over Timor Sea Chuditch well site
Jan. 29, 2025
The Outer Limit vessel has started a five-day environmental baseline survey offshore Timor-Leste for Sunda Energy.
Courtesy RDM Constructions
Richardson Devine Marine (RDM) Constructions' Outer Limit is a multi-purpose offshore support vessel.
Courtesy Sunda Energy
The Chuditch PSC is located about 185 km south of Timor-Leste, 100 km east of the producing Bayu-Undan field, and 50 km south of the Greater Sunrise potential development.
The Outer Limit vessel has started a five-day environmental baseline survey offshore Timor-Leste for Sunda Energy, according to a Jan. 28 company news release.
Sunda will incorporate the analysis of the acquired samples of the marine environment into the environmental impact statement for the planned Chuditch-2 appraisal well, due to spud in the second quarter.
In water depths of 50-100 m, the Chuditch production sharing contract is 185 km south of Timor-Leste and 50 km south of the potential Greater Sunrise development. Shell drilled the Chuditch-1 gas discovery well in 1998, which encountered a 30-m gas column in the Jurassic Plover Formation.
Sunda has been working on a phased development concept that could involve exporting production to third-party LNG facilities of a standalone LNG development at Chuditch.
