Kuala Lumpur: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has confirmed a new discovery of a gas field off the coast of Sarawak.
The national oil and gas company announced this in a statement today.
It said the new find was at the Lang Lebah-2 exploration appraisal well in the Block SK410B production sharing contract (PSC) located in the Central Luconia Province, about 80km off Sarawak.
PTTEP HK Offshore Ltd is the operator for the block partnering KUFPEC Malaysia (SK410B) Ltd and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd.
Petronas senior vice-president of Malaysia Petroleum Management Mohamed Firouz Asnan said the “remarkable discovery” was a testimony to Malaysia’s highly prolific basins and demonstrated the tremendous untapped exploration potential.
Petronas said Block SK410B was promoted in the Malaysia Bid Round 2015, resulting in the PSC being signed in July 2016.
The Lang Lebah-2 exploration well was successfully drilled to a total depth of 4,320m in mid-January with over 600m of proven net gas pay.
“The well was tested and flowed at 50 million cubic feet of gas per day with a significant amount of gas in place. This is an appraisal drilling to confirm the upside potential and to accelerate the development programme,” Firouz said.
In 2019, Petronas and its partners made a commercially viable gas discovery through the first exploration well, Lang Lebah-1RDR2, and are currently preparing towards field development.
