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Shwe

Shwe is in 110m water depth, in blocks

A-1 and A-3, in the Rakhine offshore area, in the Bay of Bengal. Its reserves are estimated at 4.5Tcf. Offshore facili- ties comprise a processing platform with 11 wells, and the Mya-North subsea well

Southeast Asia head, with four wells. Gas export is via a 110km-long, 32in. pipeline.

First gas from Mya-North, part of the

Shwe development, was in summer last year. On 16 January, operator Daewoo

International announced frst gas from

Shwe, from the frst of 11 production wells. Daily production was recorded at 200MMcf, this is due to increase to 500MMcf as the other wells come on stream.

Dockwise was the transport and instal- lation contractor for the 22,000-tonne

Shwe jacket, with distributed systems S45 Barge

An ACE Winches foatover installation package on board the for work to foundation, and 30,000-tonne topsides,

Photo from ACE Winches. install the ZPQ platform ofshore Yangon, Myanmar. constructed at Hyundai Heavy Industry’s by Thailand’s PTTEPI, is also due to fabrication yard in Ulsan, South Korea. come on stream this year. It will also Dockwise installed the topside through a export gas to Thailand, with some foatover using COOEC’s HYSY229 instal- domestic supply. lation launch barge.

Cable supplier JDR delivered a

Yadana 13,650m-long production control

Yadana, discovered in 1980 and umbilical for the Mya-North tieback, in production from 1998, is in the manufactured at JDR’s Sattahip, Thailand

Moattama offshore area, in Blocks facility. FMC provided a subsea control

M-5 and M-6. Reserves are esti- system on the fve-slot subsea manifold, mated at 6.5Tcf, according to the in 186m water depth, 12km from the

Ministry. The facilities comprise Shwe platform. In June last year, KCA three well head platforms, hous- Deutag secured a two year operating and ing 17 wells in total, with process, maintenance drilling services contract quarters, fare, and medium com- for the Shwe platform with Daewoo pression platforms (one each), con- International. nected to shore with a 216mi, 26in. Partners on Shwe are Daewoo pipeline. Partners on Yadana are International (51%), ONGE (17%), GAIL

Total (31.24%), UNOCAL (28.26%), (8.5%), KOGAS (8.5%), and MOGE (15%).

PTTEPI (25.5%), MOGE (15%). According to a note by KDB Daewoo

Securities, dated December 2013,

Yetagun

Daewoo International plans to start

Yetagun, discovered in 1992, is exploring the AD-7 Block, in the Rakhine in the Tanintharyi offshore area, offshore area, in 2015. The note says: “If in Blocks M-12, M-13 and M-14. the block’s recoverable reserves are at

Yetagun is Myanmar’s second largest least 3-4Tcf, a gas liquefaction plant may

Myanmar’s on- and ofshore acreage. gas feld behind Yadana. Its reserves be built (or a piped natural gas facility if

Image from Republic of Myanmar Ministry of Energy. are estimated at 4.16Tcf, gas and production is smaller).” (PCML) (Blocks M12, 13 and 14), and condensate, according to the Ministry.

Zawtika

CNPC (AD-1, AD-6, AD-8). Production started in 2000.

Existing production comes from The facilities comprise a wellhead Zawtika is in the Moattama offshore area, the Yadana and Yetagun felds, which platform with 10 wells, processing in Block M-9 and a small part of M-11, accounted for 95% of Myanmar’s total platform, foating storage and offoad- in the Gulf of Martaban, in the Andaman gas production in 2011 (ADB, Myanmar ing facility, compression platform and Sea, about 300 km south of Yangon. The

Energy Sector Initial Assessment, Manila, booster compression platform. A 126mi, development, encapsulating the Zawtika, 2012). This year Shwe, operated by 24in. pipeline is used for gas export. The Kakonna, and Gawthaka gas and con-

Korea’s Daewoo International, came on partners are Petronas (40.75%), Nippon densate felds, comprises three well head stream, exporting gas to China, with (19.4%), PTTEPI (19.4%) and MOGE platforms, with a total 35 wells, an inte- some domestic supply. Sawtika, operated (20.45%). grated processing and quarters platform

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