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Chevron Indonesia has discovered a pocket of natural gas off the eastern coast of Kalimantan that could boost the country’s production by more than 10 percent. (AFP Photo) |
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Chevron
Indonesia, an Indonesian unit of US energy giant Chevron, has discovered a
pocket of natural gas off the eastern coast of Kalimantan that could boost the
country’s production by more than 10 percent.
The company
located a gas reserve of 2.3 trillion cubic feet in the Makassar Strait, and
total cost to develop the block is estimated at up to $7 billion, the nation’s
upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas said on Monday.
The company
is expected to produce 1,000 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of
gas from the block, BPMigas said. Output of 1,000 mmscfd of gas is equal to
about 172,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd). Indonesia’s natural
gas production last year was 1.5 million boepd, according to BPMigas.
“We have
agreed on the plan of development on those blocks, so we already know the
reserve for the first phase of the project,” Gde Pradnyana, a spokesman for
BPMigas, said on Monday. The total cost to develop the project is estimated at
$4 billion to $7 billion, BPMigas said.
Chevron
owns four gas blocks in the Makassar Strait, located between Kalimantan and
Sulawesi islands, and continues to explore within those blocks for more gas
reserves. It began exploration activities on the blocks in 2008.
Of the four
blocks, two of them — the Ganal and Rapak blocks — are jointly owned with ENI,
an Italian oil and gas company, in which it owns a 20 percent stake.
Chevron is
Indonesia’s largest oil producer, with total daily production averaging 477,000
barrels of liquids and total average daily production of natural gas at 611
mmscfd in 2010, according to the company’s Web site.
Chevron
operates in partnership with Indonesia’s government under so-called
production-sharing contracts.
Indonesia
has been struggling to boost oil production after the country’s crude oil
output fell below 1 million bpd in 2007.
Oil
companies operating in Indonesia produced about 904,000 bpd last year.
“That’s why
we want to change the paradigm from oil to gas,” Gde said.
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