Sabah Shell Petroleum News

 

Lundin onstream off Malaysia

Apr 14, 2015

Lundin’s first development project offshore Malaysia, the Bertam field, is now onstream, with plans to continue with production from remaining wells throughout 2015. Malaysia drilling operations…

Lundin bites dust on Kitabu-1

Nov 18, 2014

Lundin Petroleum’s Kitabu-1 exploration well, in Blocks SB307/SB30, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, came up dry, the Swedish independent announced on 18 November. Lundin said that the primary reservoir interval contained poor quality siltstone…

KPOC hits first gas at Kebabangan

Nov 12, 2014

Kebabangan Production Oil Co. (KPOC) began gas production from the Kebabangan (KBB) gas field, approximately 60 mi. offshore Sabah, Malaysia, according to ConocoPhillips Sabah Ltd. The CHIKYU vessel. From Jamstec…

Lundin begins Kitabu off Malaysia

Oct 27, 2014

Lundin Petroleum AB spudded the Kitabu-1 exploration well in Block SB307/308, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The West Prospero. From Seadrill.   The Kitabu prospect is a stratigraphic trap…

Shell begins Gumusut-Kakap off Malaysia

Oct 08, 2014

Shell began its first deepwater development in Malaysia with the Gumusut-Kakap floating platform. Shell's Gumusut-Kakap. From Shell.   The Gumusut-Kakap field is off the coast of Malaysia…

Shell starts work on Malikai

Sep 08, 2014

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…

Shell Malaysia taps IKM Group for mud system

Sep 02, 2014

IKM Group will provide a riser-less top-hole mud circulation system to Shell on the Malikai project offshore Sabah, Malaysia. IKM says the contract award is an important milestone for its MRR technology (mud recovery without riser) and…

Norshore inks Malaysia top hole contract

May 09, 2014

Norwegian drilling contractor Norshore is to carry out top hole drilling in the Malikai field in Malaysia as part of a contract with Sabah Shell Petroleum Company, Far Frontier Energy Sdn. Bhd. Norshore said the contract was a breakthrough…

Malaysia find for Shell/Petronas

Mar 19, 2014

PETRONAS and Shell have made an oil discovery offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The discovery was made via the Limbayong-2 well during the appraisal of the Limbayong gas field by Shell. The appraisal well encountered 136 metres of oil bearing sands…

Maersk wins jackup deal from Brunei Shell

Feb 12, 2014

Brunei Shell Petroleum awarded Maersk Drilling a four-year contract for the jackup rig Maersk Completer for operations offshore Brunei. The contract will commence in December 201, in direct continuation of its current contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum…

Petronas awards integrated contracts

Dec 13, 2013

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has announced a new gas discovery offshore Malaysia and the award of a three year integrated offshore installation contract. Operator on Block SK320, Mubadala Petroleum, discovered gas in the Sintok-1 well…

Gumusut-Kakap gets FPS

Jul 25, 2013

Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. received a semisubmersible floating production system (FPS) for Malaysia’s Gumusut-Kakap deepwater field offshore Sabah. The FPS was handed over to Sabah Shell in early June and is installed in about 1200m water depth…

MMHE readies FPS for load out

Jul 10, 2013

Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineering (MMHE) shows how the Gumusut-Kakap semi-FPS, which was delivered to Sabah Shell Petroleum Company in July, came together from beginning to load out at its Pasir Gudang yard.

FPS delivered to Gumusut-Kakap field off Malaysia

Jul 08, 2013

A semisubmersible floating production system for Malaysia’s Gumusut-Kakap deepwater field was delivered to be installed at the project development site offshore Sabah. The Gumusut-Kakap field is Malaysia’s second deepwater development after the Kikeh oil field…

The technologies in Shell’s DNA

May 01, 2012

Technology is a key enabler for Shell, Matthias Bichsel, director of the supermajor’s Projects & Technology business, told a two-day briefing at the Rijswijk technology centre in The Hague this spring. Meg Chesshyre joined the tour of the company’s iScope…

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