West Seno resumes production

West Seno deepwater oil and gas field in Makassar Strait resumed oil, gas production early Tuesday after being shut down for about one month due to planned maintenance.

?Production resumed at a little after midnight and at the rate of 6,000 barrels of oil per day and 27MMCFD of gas,? said Chevron East Kalimantan spokesperson Usman Slamet.

Usman expected production would stabilize within the next four days at flowrate of 85MMCFD and 20,000 BPD from 24 production wells.

Gas production from West seno is piped to Bontang LNG plant.

Chevron East Kalimantan is a unit of US oil major Chevron. Chevron was merger with Unocal Corp. earlier this year, making the former controlling all of Unocal?s assets, including interests in East Kalimantan oil, gas fields.

West Seno, located in the Makassar Strait PSC area, is the first deepwater oil and gas project in Indonesia. The PSC is operated and 90 percent owned by Chevron. Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina, holds the remaining interest. (godang)