Exploration momentum builds in offshore Indonesia
A base map shows where the major action is taking place in SE. Asian waters. Eight rigs are active in the Indonesian-Malaysian theater. Several companies or groups have plans in various stages of preliminary exploration, from running seismic surveys to charting exploration programs. The Indonesian Government appears willing to negotiate new production sharing agreements for blocks of open acreage. Malaya would also like to grant some new acreage. Only 3 companies have done significant drilling to date. Production in one wildcat, was estimated at about 2,480 bpd, but the well was lost due to mechanical problems. The second well also found some oil, but was not completed due to mechanical troubles. A third test is reported to have encountered the same productive limestones. A total of 3 dry holes have been drilled off S. Kalimantan. A discovery well, some 80 miles northeast of Djakarta, and about 18 miles off shore in the Java Sea, flowed 2,600 bpd.
- OSTI ID:
- 5115770
- Journal Information:
- Oil Gas J.; (United States), Vol. 67:25
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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INDONESIA
PETROLEUM DEPOSITS
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OIL WELLS
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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