Jangkrik FPU vessel christened as Jangkrik project set to start production

By Godang Sitompul

Petromindo|Godang

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ignasius Jonan led a ceremony on Tuesday to christen the Jangkrik floating production unit (FPU) at the Saipem Karimun Yard in Riau Islands Province.

Also attending the ceremony were Chairman of upstream authority SKK Migas Amien Sunaryadi, and Director General of Oil and Gas at the ministry IGN Wiratmaja Pudja.

The Jangkrik FPU will process gas to be produced from Jangkrik project in Muara Bakau PSC, in Makassar Strait, where the first gas is expected in the middle of this year, sooner than the initial plan of 2018.

The Jangkrik FPU has a capacity to process 450 mmscfd of gas and condensates from the Jangkrik project. It will then channel the gas via a 79-km underwater pipeline to reach the onshore gas network of East Kalimantan gas producers, which will then distribute the gas to industries in East Kalimantan and to the Bontang LNG plant.

The Jangkrik project covers two fields in Muara Bakau PSC, namely Jangkrik and Jangkrik North East fields. Eni is the operator of the block with a 55 percent working interest, whereas the other JV partners are GDF Suez Exploration Indonesia, a subsidiary of ENGIE, formerly GDF SUEZ, with 33.334 percent stake and Saka Energi Muara Bakau with 11.666 percent stake.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak