Shell Completes Malikai Platform Fabrication
Shell and Technip-MMHE Joint Venture (TMJV) have concluded the onshore fabrication and commissioning of the Malikai deep-water platform. The TLP will be making a 1,400km journey from Pasir Gudang to arrive at the Malikai field, where it will be installed in water depths of 500m. While it is a deep-water project, after the installation has been concluded, Malikai will produce via the Kebabangan (KBB) shallow water platform, located 50km away. The TLP is designed to partially process the gross production before evacuation to KBB, where it will be further processed before being sent onshore to the Sabah Oil & Gas Terminal for storage and offloading to tankers.
In April 2016, Malikai TLP concluded its load out, when the 27,500t platform was moved onto a heavy transport vessel. The platform was then brought to a near-shore location to allow the structure to float on its own. Once the platform was floated off of the vessel, further technical evaluations were conducted. The entire process took ten days. The TLP was then towed back to the construction yard and berthed quayside at the fabrication yard for remaining construction and commissioning activities.
Malikai is Shell’s second deep-water project in Malaysia, following the successful start-up of Gumusut-Kakap last year. Malikai is expected to have a production at peak of 60,000 barrels per day. The project is a joint venture between Shell (35%, operator), ConocoPhillips Sabah (35%), and Petronas Carigali (30%).