Appears others have had DELAY problems - FYISabah Shell Petroleum Company will be operator of the development, which will employ the region’s first deepwater Floating Production System (FPS), with a processing capacity of 150,000 barrels of oil per day. The field, which is in waters up to 1,200 metres deep in blocks J and K, will be developed using 19 subsea wells with oil exported via a pipeline to a new oil and gas terminal, which will be built in Kimanis, Sabah.
The Gumusut field was discovered by the Gumusut-1B well, drilled in 2003 in Block J. The well was drilled by a semisubmersible rig, Atwood Falcon. The Kakap field was discovered by Murphy Oil in 2004 in Block K.
The fields were appraised by four wells - Gumusut-2, Gumusut-3, Kakap-1 and Kakap-2. The wells were drilled between 2003 and 2004.
The recoverable reserves of Gumusut-Kakap project are estimated at 300 to 500 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Development drilling for the project commenced in January 2008. The project was originally scheduled to come on-stream in 2010 but was delayed due to design issues with the Gumusut-Kakap production facility and laying the new subsea export pipeline.