Offshore staff
BANGKOK -- PTT Exploration and Production Public Co. Ltd. has installed most of the production facilities in Phase 1 of the Arthit project in the Gulf of Thailand. The central processing platform is to be installed toward the end of this year.
According to the 1Q report of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT), the jackets for the central processing platform and the quarters platform are in place. Six wellhead platforms, five gas pipelines, one condensate pipeline, and the flare tripod have been installed.
PTTEP plans to install the 16,800-ton central platform, 81% of which is completed by a Batam yard in Indonesia, late this year.
Elsewhere in the Gulf of Thailand, PTTEP expects the Lanta field to begin production by year-end. Lanta, in the 9,686-sq-km (3,740-sq-mi) G4/43 block off the coast of Prachuab Khirikhan and Chumporn provinces, is expected to start initial production of 6,000-8,000 b/d of oil.
On regional projects, PTTEP expects to finish a four to five appraisal well program in July to confirm the primary reserves of Zawtika-1A, Gawthaka-1, Kakonna-1, and Zawtika-2 discoveries in block M9 in the Gulf of Martaban offshore Myanmar.
PTTEP hopes to produce natural gas by 2011-2012 from the M9 discoveries. Most of the gas would be exported to Thailand via a pipeline, while the rest would be sold to the Myanmar domestic market.
5/4/2007
