In a statement Chadwick said, “Jintan is the second gas field brought onto production, following Serai which came on stream in June 2004, under the SK8 production sharing contract, offshore Sarawak.”
“[The field] has an allocated capacity of 670 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d) at M1. Together with Serai production, a total of 970 MMscf/d of gas will now be supplied by the SK8 production sharing contract to MLNG 3 plant,” added Chadwick.
According to a Shell statement, Jintan, which was discovered in 1992, was “designed as a normally unmanned satellite to the nearby M1 gas production facilities, supplying feed gas to the Petronas MLNG 3 plant in Bintulu”.
The partners in the SK8 PSC are Shell Oil & Gas Malaysia (37.5%), Nippon Oil Exploration (Sarawak) Ltd (37.5%) and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (25%).
