Santos reports Indonesian Q2 oil, gas production

Australian-based oil and gas firm Santos Limited has released on Thursday its 2011 second quarter report. The following is an edited excerpt of the report on the company?s oil and gas production in Indonesia.

Production
Sales gas production of 9.9 PJ (9,336 MMCF) was 3% higher than Q2 2010 due to higher customer nominations at Maleo.

Santos? net entitlement crude oil production of 0.07 mmbbl was lower when compared to Q1 2011 mainly due to Oyong oil field natural decline.

Development Project
Wortel project (Santos 45%, operator)

The Wortel project was approved for development in November 2010. Wortel is located seven kilometres west of the Santos-operated Oyong oil and gas field, offshore Madura Island in the Sampang PSC, East Java.

The project includes two gas wells, a minimum facility wellhead platform and a 10-kilometre gas pipeline to the existing Oyong well head platform. Wortel gas production will then flow through the existing 60-kilometre pipeline to the onshore gas processing facility at Grati for processing and onward sale.

Construction of the Wortel wellhead platform is progressing to plan and first gas is scheduled for the end of 2011.(end of edited excerpt)