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The Montara gas and oil field is located 650 kilometres west of Darwin, inthe Northern Territory. The Montara field, that is in Australian waters, in the Timor Sea, is owned and operated by PTTEP Australasia (PTTEP AA),a wholly owned subsidiary of Thai petroleum, exploration and productioncompany, PTTEP. One of the top ten companies listed on the Thai Stockexchange.
The Montara Oil Field has a Life of 12 Years
The Montara oil and gas field that lies in 80 metres of sea water, has a 25 metre gas column and a ten metre oil column. The field consisting of four productive oil wells and a gas re-injection well, has an expectedoperational life of 12 years.PTTEP Acquired Montara oil Field From Coogee Resources in 2008
The Montara oil field was initially discovered in 1988 by BHP Billiton.The field was taken over for development and operation by Australiancompany, Coogee Resources, in 2003. PTTEP AA acquired Coogee Resources late in 2008 and in doing so inherited the Montara oil and gas field that has recoverable reserves of 24 million barrels which are able to produce 35,000 barrels of low sulphur, light crude oil a day. The acquisition of Coogee Resources, by Thai owned PTTEP, also gave the company control over the Swallow, Swift and Skua oil fields, as well as the Montara field. The Montara development project consisted of a total of ten wells, one being a gas injection well and the other nine oil producing wells.Unfortunate Incidences Delay Montara Field Production
It was initially planned to have the Montara oil field operational by 2008but this had to be put back because of the PTTEP takeover, and, again in2009, when the Montara development project sufferred an oil and gas spillfrom a drilling well. It finally became operational in 2010. While the leak at the West Atlas oil rig was being attended to a fire broke out at the Montara well head platform. The leak was successfully plugged on November 3, 2009.Freeway FPSO Renamed Montara Ventura
The Montara development project consisted of a FPSO (floating,production, storage and offloading) vessel, the Freeway oil tanker, with tiebacks connected to the Swallow, Swift and Skua fields. The Freeway wasconverted from being an oil tanker to become a FPSO by Tanker Pacific in the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The Freeway FPSO, which was renamed, ìMontara Ventura,î has been designed to give continuous service on site for the next 20 years without having to be dry docked. It is mooredin 80 metres of water and consists of a four-level 750 tonne wellheadplatform.Montara Project Benefits from Top Contractors
Norway's Advanced Production and Loading supplied the unique, flexibleSTP (submerged turret production). The Montara platform was designedby Worley Parsons, an Australian oil and gas industry professional services provider. The design of the platform proved to be difficult because of the weak soils at the project site. It was also necessary for the platform to be able to survive the occasional cyclonic storm. Other infrastructure entailed the provision of a crude oil separation facility as well as gas compression and reinjection facilities.Australian construction and engineering company, Clough, installed the Montara platform with the help of the pipelay barge, Java Constructor.Technip carried out the concept engineering of the platform. The Cloughcontract ceased in November, 2009, when the well head began leaking.
VetcoGray, a subsidiary of GE Oil and Gas, was contracted to supply theMontara project's subsea controls and production tees. Its contract alsoincluded the installation of control systems and wellheads. Engineeringwork on the Montara Ventura FPSO was carried out by Mitsubishi HeavyIndustries with NKT flexibles providing the riser system. Offshoreinstallation of the pipeline, subsea systems, wellhead platform and FPSOwas provided by Independent Offshore Solutions.
