MDA gas field offshore Indonesia starts production
Chinese state-owned oil and gas company CNOOC on November 15 said that the MDA gas field, the largest gas field of the 3M project in Indonesia, has started production.
3M project is located approximately 75 km southeast of Madura Island in the Madura Strait, East Java, with an average water depth of around 80 m. The project contains three gas fields with a total of nine gas-producing wells.
The main production facility is a floating production unit (FPU) which will undertake the natural gas production and treatment process, CNOOC said. The FPU was constructed in China with a design capacity of 175mn ft3/day.
The MBH gas field of the 3M project commenced production in October. Once the five gas-producing wells of MDA are put on stream, a peak daily production from the 3M project of approximately 127mn ft3/d is expected, the company said.
The 3M project in Indonesia is operated by Husky-CNOOC Madura (HCML). As a joint venture partner, CNOOC Southeast Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC, holds 40% interest in HCML, Cenovus Energy holds 40% interest and Samudra holds 20% interest.