Completion of Donggi and Matindok gas plants likely to be delayed
Friday, March 28 2014 - 11:53 AM WIB
The Donggi Gas Plant (DGP) and Matindok Gas Plant (MGP) projects are likely to be completed later than the initial schedule, said a top official of PT Pertamina E&P (PEP), an upstream arm of state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero).
DGP and MGP are part of a bigger project called Gas Development of Matindok. Matindok is the name of a block in Central Sulawesi operated by PEP.
PEP's President Director Adriansyah told Petromindo.com the DGP's specifications have been modified since calculation regarding the impurities of gas that will be supplied to the facility has changed.
"A delay in the completion of the projects is very likely," he said,
As a result of the change in the calculation of the impurities of gas, the contract value of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) works of DGP will swell to US$ 253 million, he said, without providing the initial contract value figures. In comparison, the contract value of the MGP project is $234 million.
The EPC contract of DGP was won by state owned engineering firm PT Rekayasa Industri, while the EPC contract of MGP was won by the consortium of PT Wijaya Karya and Technip.
"Currently the EPC works of DGP has been 13 percent completed, while the EPC works of MGP has just began," he said.
The DGP and MGP are projected to come onstream in Aug. 2015 and March 2016, respectively "But, all depends on performance of the EPC contractors.You know, our EPC contractors are very reliable in terms of scheduling," he said.
Matindok is one of the blocks which will supply gas to the Donggi-Senoro LNG plant which is now under construction. The block consists of five fields, namely Donggi, Matindok, Maleoraja, Minahaki and Sukamaju.
Based on the Plan of Development (PoD), DGP has a production capacity of 250 barrels per day (bpd) of liquid and 60 mmscfd of gas, while MGP is designed with the capacity of 65 mmscfd of gas.
Accorrding to previous reports, some of the gas from the Matindok block will be channeled to the Donggi Senoro LNG plant, and the rest to public utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN).
Once both facilities have been completed, the Donggi and Matindok gas field will supply a total of 110 mmscfd of gas to the Donggi Senoro LNG plant.
Editing by Johannes Simbolon