Under the 50:50 deal, the two engineering firms will provide materials and services to connect the $75 million offshore development with customers in Java. A mobile offshore production unit will feed the gas into the export pipeline, which will in turn hook into the existing East Java Gas Pipeline (EJGP) via a hot tap connection.
Clough spokesman Robert Ash told EnergyReview.net that the joint venture had already started constructing the pipeline.
“We expect [work] to be finished by the end of this calendar year,” he said.
“It’s good to be doing work with Santos overseas – following on from our successful working relationship at the Mutineer-Exeter project [offshore northwest Australia].”
The Maleo contract represents the first time Santos and Clough, which holds an 80% stake in Petrosea, are working together outside of Australia, according to Ash.
The Maleo gas field, discovered in June 2002, is in the Madura offshore production-sharing contract, 140km east of Surabaya. Santos owns 75% of Maleo in partnership with state-owned Malaysian petroleum exploration and production company PC Madura (25%).
Last June, Santos signed a $700 million gas sales agreement with Indonesian utility PT Perusahaan Gas Negara, in which it committed to sell the field’s entire reserves over its eight to 12 year life.
Under the agreement, gas will be supplied at a plateau rate of 110 million cubic feet per day. Plateau production is expected to last for at least six years.
