Larak

Location

The Larak gas field is situated within the SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, approximately 120 kilometers offshore Sarawak in the Central Luconia Gas Province, Malaysia.

Operators and Partners

The SK408 gas fields development project, including the Larak field, is being developed jointly by:

• SapuraOMV Upstream (40%)
• Sarawak Shell Berhad (30%)
• Petronas Carigali (30%).

Discovery and Development

• The Larak field was discovered during a drilling campaign in 2014. The discovery well, Larak-1, encountered a gross gas column of 333 meters within the Late Miocene Carbonates reservoir.
• The final investment decision (FID) for the development of the first phase, which includes the Gorek, Bakong, and Larak fields, was made in April 2018.

Production

• The SapuraOMV-operated Larak gas field started producing gas in December 2019.
• The gas from the Larak field, along with the Gorek and Bakong fields, is processed at Shell’s existing F6 processing facility and then piped to the Petronas Bintulu LNG complex for further processing.

Infrastructure

• The Larak field is developed as a separate wellhead platform tied back to the Shell’s existing F6 processing facility.
• McDermott International was contracted for the transportation and installation of jackets, topsides, and pipelines for the Larak field, as part of the Pan Malaysia field development projects.

Reserves and Production Capacity

• The SK408 PSC area, including the Larak field, is estimated to contain more than three trillion standard cubic feet (tscf) of gas.
• The production from the three fields (Gorek, Bakong, and Larak) was expected to rise to over 30,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) by the end of 2020.

Market and Supply

• The gas produced from the Larak field is supplied to the Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, under a full-term gas sales agreement signed in September 2019.