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Indonesia BP Migas approves Cepu Block plan 2006 Northeastern East Kalimantan. Indonesia Bengara (II) Block | |
Bangkudulis Oil Field Development Project onshore East Kalimantan Indonesia | |
Bengara-II
Block Property China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, terminated 2003 (OGJ Online, Mar. 28, 2003). Continental submits plan to develop Bangkudulis oil field on northeast Kalimantan The Bangkudulis property contains a shut-in oil and gas production well but it is not producing. Northeastern East Kalimantan Indonesia 1999-2003 |
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The blue outline of the USA is superimposed for scale to illustrate how big Indonesia is. SULAWESI Sulawesi CENTRAL Earthquake Central Sulawesi, Indonesia May 05, 2000 An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Banggai island in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi on Thursday noon, bringing disorder to hundreds of houses. According to the Antara News Agency, the quake occurred at 12:21 local time (04:21 GMT). Antara quoted Geophysics and Meteorology Body in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, as saying that the epicenter of the quake was located 33 kilometers under the sea level in Peleng Strait, about 94 kilometers southeast of Luwuk city in the eastern part of the province. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damages. This was the second earthquake in the area in the past one year. An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale jolted Peleng Strait on August 13 last year. |
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Timor Sea Joint
Petroleum Development Area GPDA Offshore www.offshore-mag.com Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri assured global oil and gas investors in mid-November of his government's competitive and transparent legal and contractual regime for developing resources in the Timor Sea. Welcoming more than 70 executives to a two-day workshop on the country's first round of bidding for concessions, he pledged a high standard of professionalism and dedication to companies participating in the bidding round. The bidding round area is under Timor·Leste's exclusive jurisdiction and is distinct from the area of overlapping claims of the Greater Sunrise field development that has been the subject of talks between Timor-Leste and Australia. "Our willingness to engage in good faith negotiations to resolve this dispute is a mark of the commitment and determination of my government to develop this nation. I can inform you today that I believe this process can be concluded in one to two months," he said. The field lies just 150 km from the Timor-Leste coastline compared with almost 300 km from Australia. The Joint Petroleum Development Area GPDA) comes under a parallel regime that was developed with the Australian government. The government opened bidding in September on 11 blocks in Timor-Leste's exclusive maritime area. The government will announce the successful bids in mid-June. The Timor Sea Designated Authority has also opened bidding on four blocks in the JPDA. Anzon Australia Ltd. began production from the Basker field in offshore Gippsland basin, Victoria. The Basker-2 well was opened up Nov. 14 and soon was flowing oil to surface via a subsea completion and 1.9 km flow line to the FPSO, Crystal Ocean. The initial flow rate from the upper interval of a completion optionally capable of producing from either one or two intervals was established at 9,500 bid of oil with no water production and was accompanied by approximately 10 MMcfl d of solution gas. The inlet choke pressure on the FPSO was 1,400 psig. This development is in 155 m water depth, 75 km offshore in the Bass Strait, and involves the first FPSO in the Gippsland basin. The participants in the BMG Joint Venture are Anzon Australia Ltd. 62.5% (operator) and Beach Petroleum Ltd 37.5% |
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Northeastern
East Kalimantan. Indonesia Bengara
(II) Block Bangkudulis Oil Field Development Project onshore East Kalimantan Indonesia Bengara-II Block Property China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, terminated 2003 (OGJ Online, Mar. 28, 2003). Continental submits plan to develop Bangkudulis oil field on northeast Kalimantan The Bangkudulis property contains a shut-in oil and gas production well but it is not producing. Northeastern East Kalimantan Indonesia 1999-2003 |
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Indonesia BP Migas
approves Cepu Block plan Eric Watkins Senior Correspondent LOS ANGELES, June 06, 2006 Indonesia's upstream oil and gas regulatory body BP Migas has approved the working plan proposed by ExxonMobil Corp. and state-run PT Pertamina for development of the offshore Cepu Block. ExxonMobil and Pertamina are soon expected to open drilling tenders starting with 37 wells in Banyu Urip oil field, believed to be the largest on the block. In April 2001, ExxonMobil said that Mobil Cepu Ltd., an affiliated company, had a major oil discovery at the Banyu Urip No. 3 (BU-3) well. It said with estimated reserves of more than 250 million bbl, the BU-3 well is one of the most significant oil discoveries in Indonesia in the past decade (OGJ Online, Apr. 12, 2001). In March, Pertamina Pres. Ari Soemarno said Pertamina would sign an agreement with ExxonMobil Indonesia for operation of the block (OGJ Online, Mar. 13, 2006). Pertamina and ExxonMobil each have a 45% share of the Cepu project with the remaining 10% held by the Central Java and East Java administrations. |
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><<>><<>><>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><< Indonesia Bengara II block By OGJ editors HOUSTON, May 4 Continental Energy Corp., Dallas, staked three onshore exploratory wells on the Bengara II block production-sharing contract in the Tarakan basin of East Kalimantan after the government approved its planned 2004-05 program. Pungit 1 is projected to 8,800 ft at a cost of $4.5 million. It is on the Galiadap anticline near an oil lake formed by seeps and leaks from wellheads from an oilfield active around 1915. The well will test four potential oil-producing zones. Seberaba 1 is projected to 12,511 ft at a cost of $6.2 million to test three separate zones on the end of a large seismically determined trap formed by a rollover into a large regional fault. Apung 1 is to go to 7,595 ft at a cost of $4.4 million. It will test part of a large stratigraphic wedge evident on seismic. Continental's 60% owned Indonesian operating unit, Continental-GeoPetro (Bengara-II) Ltd., will supervise drilling operations. A farmout under which China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, was to have drilled on the block was terminated in late 2003 (OGJ Online, Mar. 28, 2003). ><<>><<>><>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><< Northeastern East Kalimantan Indonesia 1999-2003 By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Mar. 28 2003 Several independents plan to drill on the 900,000-acre Bengara (II) Block in the Bulungan River Delta in the Tarakan basin of northeastern East Kalimantan. The drilling group includes GeoPetro Resources Co., San Francisco, and its Jakarta subsidiary, APEX (Bengara-II) Ltd., the operator, along with farmee China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong. China Wisdom will drill five obligation wells to test five exploration plays by the end of 2004. Two land wells will cost $4 million each and three wells in 10-30 ft of water in the Bulungan River $6 million each. If C ina Wisdom finds a company to build a 100 Mw power station and secures a gas sales contract, GeoPetro and partners will drill at least three wells to develop a gas field discovered in 1988 by the Muara Makapan-1 well. That well flowed 19.5 MMcfd of gas and 640 b/d of condensate. TD is 10,800 ft. Bangkudulis field lays mostly onshore Bangkudulis Island in the Sesayap River estuary and Tarakan basin of East Kalimantan. Oil & Gas Journal September 4, 2000 Indonesia Equatorial Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to acquire a 3D seismic survey and drill 6 wells in second half 2000 in Sembakung field in the Tarakan basin of Northeast Kalimantan. Equatorial drilled three wells in the field in first half 2000, hiking production to more than 4,000 b/d of 37° gravity sweet crude. SBK-15, the first drilled in the field in 19 years, stabilized early this year flowing 2,400 b/d of oil from 3,222-62 ft and cut 256 ft of potential pay. The company operates the field under a technical assistance contract with Pertamina. Production infrastructure can handle more than 10,000 b/d. Oil & Gas Journal, December 15, 1997 On the Eurasian plate, younger Oligocene-aged oil-prone coals are important source rocks in South Sumatra and NW Java, associated with up to 20 billion BOE in place. Neogene coals are reported as the dominant source in the Kutei and Tarakan deltaic systems of Borneo (25 billion BOE). Oil & Gas Journal, March 10, 1997 Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, acquired a 47.5% interest in the oil and gas production contract covering the 240,000-acre Karang Besar block, as well as a 10% interest in the 1.66-million acre Maratua block in the Tarakan basin along the northeastern coast of Kalimantan. Oil & Gas Journal March 29, 1999 Two Canadian companies are preparing to start up operations in the Tarakan basin, Northeast Kalimantan. Equatorial Energy Inc., Calgary, and Pertamina plan to start $13.5 million of work in May in Sembakung oil field. The work consists of lease road rehabilitation, reworking several of the 17 producing wells, and starting in October 1999 drilling as many as six new wells. The field, discovered in 1976, produces a stabilized 2,900 b/d from about 8,000 ft. |
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EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
Oil was first discovered on Tarakan Island in 1899 and exploration has
continued to the present day. In 1967 Pertamina awarded the first PSC
contract in offshore Tarakan to Japex. Between 1973 and 1976 the
Mengatal, South Pamusian and Selatan fields were discovered by Tesoro.
The last field discovered was Mamburungan in 1986. ARCO acquired the
onshore Sembakung PSC in 1974 and had three significant discoveries:
Sembakung and Bangkudulis oil fields and gas at Sesayap. A portion of
the Sembakung PSC is presently held by Pertamina-Teikoku who have
drilled four wells in the area. The Bunyu Tapa gas field on Bunyu
Island was discovered by Pertamina in 1975. This led to the
construction of a methanol plant to utilize the gas. Bunyu Nibung and
Barat Fields were discovered in 1974 and 1979 respectively and are
essentially satellite fields of the Bunyu Field. In 1985 a new offshore PSC was awarded to a consortium with Sceptre as operator. After the drilling of five wells, four of which contained subcommercial quantities of hydrocarbons, the PSC was relinquished in 1993. So far, only one well has been drilled in a down dip position, the Vanda-1, in 348 m of water in a distal position of the central part of the offshore. Petrocorp's Maratua and Karang Besar PSCs were awarded in 1990 covering the on- and offshore Berau and Muara sub-basins, south of Sceptre's Bunyu PSC. These two blocks were subsequently awarded to Maersk in 1995. Shell's Sebawang PSC was awarded in 1995 covering the offshore Tarakan Sub-basin. Exploration in the Tarakan Basin has resulted so far in the discovery of 14 oil and gas fields. Cumulative production from these fields is approximately 320 MMBO in a basin of 7,000 km², with ultimate recovery from the proven fields estimated at 500 MMBO. Total gas produced to date from 13 wells has been 81 BCGF. Nearly 86% of the oil production to date has come from two fields: the Pamusian Field on Tarakan Island and Bunyu Field on Bunyu Island. Most of the remaining production comes from a series of very small fields located in individual fault blocks on Tarakan and Bunyu Islands. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/9349/hd-tarakan01/ipa1996_proceedings.htm |
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Bangkudulis
Block Property
Concession Type: Technical Assistance ContractSize & Location: 4,600 acres, Onshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia Concession Term: Up to Max 20-years from October 7, 1996 Production Share: After Government Take: Oil: 26.7% Gas: 62.5% Purpose: Development of Bangkudulis Oil Field Participation: Continental Owns Net 70% Share of Property Production Level: Currently Zero, field under developmentReserves (mmbo): 2.8 proved developed non-producing 8.5 probable Crude Oil Quality: 41 API Degrees Sweet Regional Setting: More than 310 million barrels of oil and 97 billion cubic feet of gas have been produced from 349 wells in 15 fields since 1889 within the prolific Tarakan Basin area surrounding the Bangkudulis Property. Field Discovery: The Bangkudulis Field was originally discovered by Arco in 1980 at Bangkudulis-#1 well which tested an accumulated 6,400 BOPD from 4 sandstone intervals of 119’ net pay thickness at a depth of 3,250’ plus 4.5 MMCFD of natural gas from a fifth 60‘ thick sand zone at 4,500’ depth. Project Operator: Continental’s 70% owned affiliate GAT Bangkudulis Petroleum Company Ltd. (“GATB”) operates and manages the property from its Jakarta offices.Production History: During a 4-year period ending 1989 the Bangkudulis Field discovery well #1 was placed on production at a beginning rate of 1,200 BOPD and an ending rate of 150 BOPD when mechanical problems forced the well to be shut-in. Accumulated oil production was 562,000 barrels. Since 1989 the field was shut in until GATB acquired TAC rights to restore the field to production and complete its full development. Production Plans: Production from the field will be delivered by existing pipeline to an existing barge loading facility where it will be pumped to barges for delivery to market at a Pertamina oil terminal a short 8-hour barge journey away on Bunyu Island as can be seen on the map below. We expect to place the field back on production at a rate of about 1,200 BOPD in 2003 and given a slow paced development from available cash flow proceeds we expect field production to peak at as much as 9,000 BOPD. Current Situation: Seeking farm in partners and raising funds. In second half 2003 Continental intends to drill two new production wells and workover one existing production well and restore commercial oil production from the field. Production from the 3 wells should commence by end 2003. Full field exploitation is expected to take an additional 18 months and involve drilling 16 to 20 additional wells paid for from production. Total Indonesia Mahakam program Oil & Gas Journal October 16, 2000 Peciko start-up Completion of Phase 1 of the giant Peciko gas field development off Indonesia's East Kalimantan is a major milestone in the long history of Total Indonesia. The company, the Indonesian upstream unit of Franco-Belgian supermajor TotalFinaElf SA, contends the project is the first of its kind to develop an infrastructure for a large-scale, integrated field development project that covers the production chain from wellhead to processing units and then to an LNG plant. Mahakam PSC history Peciko development warranted an
eighth liquefaction
train at Indonesia's giant Bontang LNG complex. The eighth train came
on
stream in November 1999, 1 month before Peciko start-up, to supply new
LNG contracts with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan that extend to 2010. About 1 billion bbl of oil and condensate and over 4 tcf of natural gas have been produced in environments that vary from swampy terrain at Handil and Tambora fields; to shallow waters at Tunu; to moderate-depth waters in the Bekapai, Sisi, and Nubi areas; and to deeper waters at Peciko. Discovered in 1991-after Tunu gas field, which is now in Phase 7 of production and gearing up for Phase 8-the Peciko project was launched in 1996 to boost Total Indonesia's gas production capacity to meet new LNG contracts. It differs from Tunu in that it is being developed offshore in 30-50 m of water. The field lies 60 km northeast of the city of Balikpapan and southwest of Bekapai in the Makassar Straits. Peciko details Click to enlarge image Of all the producing fields in the Mahakam River delta, the
Peciko field
is unique in that gas trapping is both structural and stratigraphic.
The
reservoir section consists of a series of very fine to medium-grained
sands
scattered throughout deposits of shale and siltstone, and the main
productive
sequence lies at a depth of 2,100-3,000 m. Well
productivity
is very high, averaging 80 MMcfd. Field development initially involved
two offshore platforms from which 16 wells were drilled. Full
development
will entail ultimately about a dozen unmanned
platforms Gas and condensate are shipped via pipeline to the onshore
Senipah
Peciko
Process Area (PPA), integrated with and located just south of the
Senipah
oil and export terminal that has operated since 1977. After processing,
the gas is sent through a 42-in., 86-km gas pipeline to the Bontang LNG
plant. The condensate is separated and stabilized and sent via tanker
to
the Senipah terminal from where it is shipped in the same way as is the
crude oil from Handil and Bekapai. Phase I of Peciko
is planned to produce a maximum of 800 MMcfd of gas and 16,000 b/d of
condensate. A further development stage, to be completed by yearend
2001, will
involve
installing a third offshore wellhead platform and drilling nine
additional
development wells to increase production to 1 bcfd. This production
level
will be maintained over the next 2 years. Mahakam PSC operating costs have been brought down since 1992
from
$2/boe
to a little over $1/boe in 2000. By 2004-05, they will be down to
$1/boe
of which 85% represents technical costs and the balance for
administration
and overhead. There is a severe cost-cutting program under way
throughout
the contract area. This takes into account not only
the
synergies to be drawn within each field but also the cross synergies
from
all fields, whether oil or gas. This also allows for a more rational
distribution
of the local personnel trained by Total Indonesia. The bulk of this supply is intended for the Bontang LNG plant, which is owned 10% by Total Indonesia, now its largest supplier; 55% by Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina; and the balance by two other East Kalimantan operators, Virginia Indonesia Co. and Unocal Corp. Click here to enlarge image The Makaham PSC is Indonesia's most prolific hydrocarbon area. Overall initial hydrocarbon reserves are estimated at 5.7 billion boe (proved) and 6.95 billion boe (proven plus probable). Click to enlarge image Last year, the Mahakam PSC produced 130,000 boe/d, of which 84% was natural gas. Oil production from Bekapai and Handil oil fields peaked at 230,000 b/d in the late 1970s and is now in decline, currently averaging only 23,000 b/d. Sophisticated measures at Mahakam oil fields involving gas lift, water and gas injection, recompletions, and stimulations have managed to bring recovery factors to around 45%. A new stage of tertiary enhanced oil recovery EOR was to get under way this year in five reservoirs in Handil field, involving dry gas from Peciko injected in already waterflooded reservoirs. In addition, a $20 million air injection pilot was to begin testing last July in one of Handil's reservoirs, a first in Indonesia. If successful, the process will be extended to other reservoirs. Click to enlarge image Proven and probable gas reserves in the Mahakam area, on the
other hand,
are estimated as high as 31 tcf, accounting for 40% of Indonesia's
reserves.
So far, only 16 tcf has been sold within existing LNG contracts.
Japan accounts for 60% of Bontang contract volumes, South Korea and
Taiwan
the rest. LNG market prospects While this was easy before the Asian
crisis and before other LNG projects targeting the Far East had
materialized,
times have changed; it is now a buyer's market. Indonesia's LNG success
could, in effect, be its undoing: It provides half of Japan's and South
Korea's LNG; both countries now wish to diversify their supply sources
and have a large choice: Malaysia, Brunei, Australia, and even the
Middle
East. Marketing its uncommitted gas is one of the
challenges
facing the company. But while the Mahakam PSC
is one of TotalFinaElf's "core assets"-accounting for 25% of the
company's
global production in 1999-it is also, together with the North Sea, a
critical
source of its cash flow. Asia, as a whole, with 7% of the world's gas
reserves,
is central to its gas strategy. These reserves, pointed out de
Margerie,
have been steadily growing: during 1988-99 the firm's gas reserves grew
by 32%, essentially concentrated in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia
(placing them close to large markets). Exploration, Asia strategy Click to enlarge image In Indonesia TotalFinaElf continues to pursue its exploration
effort,
with an emphasis on gas in a country where both domestic and export
demand
for gas is on the rise. In addition to the
Mahakam
PSC, TotalFinaElf is exploring six other acreages: Tengah, as operator
with a 22.5% stake; Walo, with 100%, where 3D seismic is being
interpreted;
Sabo, 30%, with operator Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. 60%;
North
Sokang, 100%, where a wildcat will be drilled this year; Saliki,
operator
with 50%; and Sebawang, operator with 50%. Elsewhere
in Asia, the group has production in Thailand and Myanmar since early
1990. Through the former Total SA's merger with Elf Aquitaine
SA,
it now holds a gas field in Brunei, off Maharaja, which came on stream
early last year. Through its earlier merger with Petrofina SA, it also
holds 3 exploration blocks in Viet Nam and deepwater acreage off
Pakistan.
All told, TotalFinaElf operates 420,000 boe/d of Asia production, of
which
20% is oil and 80% gas. Christophe de Margerie
believes
it is important TotalFinaElf maintain its strong positions in
Asia
and not let new entrants such as BP overtake it in this
market. |
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Northeastern East
Kalimantan. Indonesia By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Mar. 28 2003 The drilling group includes GeoPetro Resources Co., San Francisco, and its Jakarta subsidiary, APEX (Bengara-II) Ltd., the operator, along with farmee China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong. China Wisdom will drill five obligation wells to test five exploration plays by the end of 2004. Two land wells will cost $4 million each and three wells in 10-30 ft of water in the Bulungan River $6 million each. If China Wisdom finds a company to build a 100 Mw power station and secures a gas sales contract, GeoPetro and partners will drill at least 3 wells to develop a gas field discovered in 1988 by the Muara Makapan-1 well. That well flowed 19.5 MMcfd of gas and 640 b/d of condensate. TD is 10,800 ft. December 4, 2003 Farm Out Terminated Langley,
BC, Canada: DECEMBER 4, 2003 CONTINENTAL ENERGY CORPORATION
('Continental', OTC-BB: CPPXF) announced that together with other
shareholders it has terminated a March 3, 2003 farm out agreement with
China Wisdom International (HK) Ltd. ('China Wisdom') in accordance
with the termination provisions of that agreement. The farm out
agreement involved the Company's Bengara-II
Block exploration property
in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The farm out was terminated due to China
Wisdom's failure to perform drilling obligations under the agreement.
Approximately US$ 630,000 cash already advanced by China Wisdom to the
company's Continental-Wisdom-GeoPetro (Bengara-II) Ltd. operating unit
is forfeited by China Wisdom with the termination. Oil & Gas Journal September 4, 2000 Indonesia Equatorial Energy Inc., Calgary, plans to acquire a 3D seismic survey and drill 6 wells in second half 2000 in Sembakung field in the Tarakan basin of Northeast Kalimantan. Equatorial drilled 3 wells in the field in first half 2000, hiking production to more than 4,000 b/d of 37° gravity sweet crude. SBK-15, the first drilled in the field in 19 years, stabilized early this year flowing 2,400 b/d of oil from 3,222-62 ft and cut 256 ft of potential pay. The company operates the field under a technical assistance contract with Pertamina. Production infrastructure can handle more than 10,000 b/d. Oil & Gas Journal, December 15, 1997 On the Eurasian plate, younger Oligocene-aged oil-prone coals are important source rocks in South Sumatra and NW Java, associated with up to 20 billion BOE in place. Neogene coals are reported as the dominant source in the Kutei and Tarakan deltaic systems of Borneo (25 billion BOE). Oil & Gas Journal, March 10, 1997 Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, acquired a 47.5% interest in the oil and gas production contract covering the 240,000-acre Karang Besar block, as well as a 10% interest in the 1.66-million acre Maratua block in the Tarakan basin along the northeastern coast of Kalimantan. |
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Bangkudulis
Oil Field Development Project onshore East Kalimantan Indonesia September 25, 2000 Purchase of Interest in Oil Field Development Continental
Energy Corporation announced today that it has purchased a
70% stake in GAT Bangkudulis Petroleum Company Ltd. and its Bangkudulis
Oil Field Development Project onshore East Kalimantan Indonesia.
According to an independent engineers report by Chapman Engineering of
Calgary the Bangkudulis Field contains proved, developed, non-producing
oil reserves of 2,865,000 barrels plus an additional amount of
8,551,000 barrels classified as probable reserves. At the present time
the Bangkudulis Field is not producing and one existing production well
is shut in. During a four year period ending in 1989 the shut-in well
flowed 540,000 barrels of sweet 41º gravity crude. Additional
drilling
of up to 18 new production wells is required to complete the full field
development. Bangkudulis Field lies mostly onshore Bangkudulis Island
in the Sesayap River estuary of East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Geologically the field lies in the Tarakan Basin. More than 120 million
barrels of oil and 96 billion cubic feet of gas have been produced from
the Tarakan Basin from 349 wells in 15 recognized fields. GAT
Bangkudulis Petroleum Company Ltd. ('GATB'), a private British Virgin
Islands company, is engaged in the development of Bangkudulis Field
pursuant to a Technical Assistance Contract (the "TAC") with Pertamina
the Indonesian state oil company. The Bangkudulis TAC covers an area of
18.6 square kilometers over the Bangkudulis Field, an oil and gas field
originally discovered by Arco in 1980 at the Bangkudulis-#1 well which
tested an accumulated 6,500 BOPD from four sand reservoir zones of
accumulated 119 feet net thickness plus 4.5 MMCFD from a fifth sand
reservoir zone of 60 feet thickness. GATB owns a 100% interest in the
TAC and the underlying field development project. Tel: (604) 687-3434
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