Shell has started work drilling production wells on Malaysia's third deepwater development, the Malikai field, offshore Malaysia.
The Malikai development involves 17 wells drilled from a 23,500 tonne tension leg platform production facility, the first TLP to be fabricated and installed in Malaysia.
Norwegian firm Norshore’s first drilling and intervention vessel, Norshore Atlantic (pictured), has started a contract with Sabah Shell Petroleum Company on the Malikai field offshore Malaysia. The work involves batch drilling eight top holes in 475m water depth and is expected to run for about 75-130 days.
The work is the Norshore Atlantic's second contract, following in inaugural contract, comprising ROV inspection and well intervention work on two subsea wells on the Langa field in Indonesia, with BlueSky Langsa.
The Malikai oil field is 100 km offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The field, in up to 500m water depth, is part of the Block G Production Sharing Contract awarded by PETRONAS in 1995. Operated by Sabah Shell Petroleum Company. Shell and ConocoPhillips each hold 35% interest in the development while PETRONAS Carigali has 30%.
The contracts for the engineering, procurement and construction of the TLP have been awarded.
Norshore Atlantic was delivered from the Batamec shipyard in March 2014. The vessel is of MT6022XL design and is built according to NMA Mobile offshore unit regulations and classed in DNVGL.
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