CNOOC fixes Pabelokan cooler, gas supply back to normal

Supplies of natural gas to the Cilegon power plant has returned to normal following the sucessful repair of the leaked cooler at the production facilities of the Pabelokan field offshore West Java, upstream oil and gas authority BP Migas said on Friday.

?The E-200 cooler in production facilities was fixed last night, and the supply of natural gas to Cilegon power plant has resumed today,? BP Migas' operation deputy Dody Hidayat said.

Flow of natural gas to the combined-cycle Cilegon power plant in Banten now reached 40 MMSCFD, he said.

The Pabelokan field, which has two producing gas wells, Zelda and Banuwati, normally supplies 45 MMSCFD of natural gas to the Cilegon plant, Dody earlier said.

The field is part of the South East Sumatra (SES) PSC, which is 65.5 percent owned by operator CNOOC SES Ltd.

CNOOC commenced delivering natural gas to the 750-Megawatt power plant through a 85-km subsea pipeline in June this year.

CNOOC is committed to delivering the gas at the rate of around 50 billion British thermal units (BTU) per day in the first year and the supply will be ramped up to 80 billion BTU per day thereafter. (godang)