PEPC awaits SKK Migas approval to determine EPC contractor for C. Java gas facility
Thursday, December 22 2016 - 02:55 AM WIB
PT Pertamina EP Cepu (PEPC), a subsidiary of state owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero), is still waiting for approval from upstream authority SKK Migas before announcing the EPC contractor for the planned gas processing facility at the Jambaran-Tiung Biru (JTB) field in Central Java.
"We are still waiting for official approval from SKK Migas,? President Director of PEPC Adriansyah told Petromindo.com on Wednesday.
Adriansyah said earlier that Rekind-JGC consortium offered the lowest bid in a tender for the EPC project. The other bidder is the Wika-Chiyoda consortium. According to him, the construction work was expected to start in early 2017.
The JTB project is expected to come onstream in the first quarter of 2019 with a production rate of 227 mmscfd of gas and a peak production of 315 mmscfd in 2019. The production will be sourced from six wells.
The Tiung Biru Jambaran field initially consisted of two fields: Tiung Biru and Jambaran. The government later decided to unitize the fields given that they are close to each other. The Tiung Biru field is located within Pertamina EP?s Cepu operations area which is adjacent to the giant Cepu oil and gas block jointly operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited (EMCL), a unit of ExxonMobil Indonesia, and PEPC. The Jambaran gas field is located within the Cepu block, which is operated by EMCL. EMCL and PEP agreed in September 2012 to unitize both fields with PEPC serving as operator.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak