Gumusut Kakap Oil Field
Related Pages
Malaysia Oil & Gas Fields
Shell Oil & Gas Fields
Upstream News
For More Upstream News
- Glossary of Upstream Terms
- Unconventional Oil And Gas Resources
- Global Floating Production Storage And Offloading Vessels (FPSO)
Summary Information
- Operator: Shell
- Country: Malaysia
- Location: Blocks J & K, Offshore Sabah
- Production start: 2012
- Partners: Shell and ConocoPhillips Sabah Ltd each hold 33% interests in the development, PETRONAS Carigali has 20% and Murphy 14%.
- Type: Oil
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field, which is in waters up to 1,200 metres deep in blocks J and K, was be developed using 19 subsea wells with oil exported via a pipeline to a new oil and gas terminal, which will be built in Kimanis, Sabah.
- The development uses a deepwater Floating Production System (FPS), the Kakap Natuna FPSO with a processing capacity of 150,000 barrels of oil per day.
- Natural gas that is produced along with the oil will be re-injected into the reservoir to help improve oil recovery
Contractors
- SapuraAcergy: Scope under the contract involves engineering, procurement, transportation and installation, offshore Malaysia in water depths of 1,200 metres, covering:
- An oil export pipeline and catenary riser, including the shore approach
- Flowlines, jumpers, Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs), Pipeline End Terminations (PLET) and flowline inline structures (SLEDs)
- Mooring wires, chains and piles for a semi-submersible Floating Production System (FPS) including towing to the offshore location and installation thereof
- FMC Technologies: 15 subsea trees, five manifolds, subsea drilling systems, control systems, flowline connections and related subsea equipment and life-of-field support
- MMHE: Platform Topsides
- Kavin Engineering: Design And Engineering of Glycol Regeneration Package
- Hallin Marine: Provide ROV survey services and support for the installation of offshore pipelines, risers and facilities
- FoundOcean: Grouting
History
- 2003 - Gumusut oil field discovered
- 2004 - Murphy Oil discovers Kakap Oil Field
- 2006 - Agreement signed between the partners to develop the two fields
- 2008 - Final Investment Decision was taken
- 2008 - FMC Technologies awarded Supply Subsea Systems contract
- 2009 - SapuraAcergy awarded engineering, procurement, transportation and installation contract
- 2012 - First production achieved via an interim crude evacuation system (ICES)
- 2013 - FPS completed
- 2014 - Shell starts oil production from Gumusut-Kakap deep-water platform
Geology
Links
- Project Homepage
- FoundOcean Subsea References
- Anggerik Laksana Platform References
- Serimax Asia Pipeline References
- Kavin Engineering Oil And Gas Processing References
- Award for $825 million Gumusut-Kakap Offshore Field contract to SapuraAcergy Joint Venture
- Shell to co-develop deepwater Gumusut-Kakap field offshore Malaysia
- FMC Technologies to Supply Subsea Systems for Gumusut-Kakap Project Offshore Malaysia
- Murphy Oil Announces Significant Oil And Natural Gas Discovery In Deepwater Malaysia At Kakap
- Successful Delivery Of Gumusut-Kakap Semi-FPS
- Petronas Anounces Gumusut-Kakap’s First Oil
- Hallin Marine SOV Windermere mobilised for Malaysian floating production system
- Shell starts oil production from Gumusut-Kakap deep-water platform in Malaysia
page revision: 17, last edited: 28 Jul 2015 06:28