The 16,800 ton Arthit processing platform, built at a plant in Batam, Indonesia, will be launched at the end of November and will be transported to the Gulf of Thailand for installation.
PTT Exploration and Production’s (PTTEP) investment of $1 billion so far at Arthit was for the construction and installation of the central processing plant, the living quarter, the flare tripod, six wellhead platforms, five gas pipelines, one condensate pipeline, and for the drilling of 90 production wells.
Initial production is set at 330 million standard cubic feet per day, which will help push PTTEP’s sales volume up to 241,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2008.
