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the MaMPU1 for use on the Ophir ? eld development project off Malaysia.

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Development plans for the ? eld involve a single wellhead platform, from which

Marginal three producers will be drilled, and a leased FPSO.

The MaMPU concept is similar to one being touted for marginal ? elds in the

North Sea by Amplus Energy Services in Malaysia for its versatile production unit (VPU).

The Amplus VPU (OE: May 2016) uses capacity of 25 MMcf/d. proven FPSO and DP vessel technol-

Malaysia’s MISC has built a

The spread-moored vessel is designed ogy and is based on the concept of the minimal facilities FPSO for to produce from ? elds with proven Seillean (gaelic for honeybee) FPSO. reserves of between 3-10 MMbbl. It is The Seillean was originally developed use on marginal ? elds. John aimed at tapping a cluster of 4-6 oil by BP in the mid-late 1980s to perform

Sheehan takes a look. ? elds to be developed over a 10-15 year production, storage and transportation time span. operations on the various marginal ? eld apping the potential of mar- The tanker was converted at developments BP had in its North Sea ginal oil and gas ? elds offshore the Malaysia Marine and Heavy portfolio at that time. It was designed

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Malaysia will be a key to the Engineering yard in Johor in just eight to suck up oil from small ? elds and country’s aims to grow oil and gas pro- months. It contains a central control quickly move on.

duction by 5%/yr up to 2020. room and an accommodation block for Amplus Managing Director Ian Herd

Malaysia, which has 409 oil and gas up to 45 people. said that the VPU is based on a stan- ? elds and the second largest reserves An NGLTech Sep i-SYS crude oil sep- dardized approach, with the concept in Southeast Asia, currently produces aration unit has been installed on the being dubbed “project Mondeo” after the about 730,000 b/d of crude oil and 2 topsides to separate the produced oil, ubiquitous Ford car.

Bcf/d of natural gas, making it the gas and water. The compact system is “We already have invested more than world’s third largest exporter of LNG. relatively lightweight and has minimal US$5 million in the development of our

Production growth is expected to controls. It is capable of handling a large VPU, and it has been speci? cally de- come from enhancing output from exist- slug volume as well as sand without signed for small/medium-sized ? elds or ing ? elds as well as from new marginal causing ? ow ? uctuations. as an early production system on larger ? elds coming onstream. These marginal MISC is understood to be offering ? elds,” Herd said. ? elds are expected to contribute an ad-

Malaysia Marine and ditional 55,000 b/d in output by 2020.

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Shipping company MISC Berhad, handle the conversion which is continuing to expand into the (fabrication, installation offshore arena, has developed a solu- and integration) of the tion for tapping these smaller ? elds

FSO MaMPU 1.

Photo from Malaysia Marine and with a marginal mobile production

Heavy Engineering unit (MaMPU), which complies with marine standards for offshore oil and gas production.

Syed Hashim Syed Abdullah, vice president of offshore business, MISC, told OTC Asia earlier this year: “We looked at how we could address the economic requirements of marginal ? elds. There is a huge capex involved in developing ? elds with FPSOs, FSOs and FSUs, so MISC came up with the

MaMPU concept to provide a technical solution to monetize stranded ? elds.”

He said the marginal ? elds off

Malaysia could remain undeveloped because of the huge cost of putting in infrastructure.

To cut these costs, MISC has con- verted an oil tanker into the MaMPU1 production unit, which offers 318,000 bbl of storage capacity, 15,000 b/d of oil processing capacity, and gas handling oedigital.com August 2016 | OE 39 039_OE0816_Epic2_MaMPU.indd 39 7/24/16 11:00 AM