Petromin marine and offshore Jan-Feb Issue

The winners of the upcoming tender
manage the electrical requirements.
will operate all of those blocks using
This is Petronas’ second floating liquefied
natural gas (PFLNG 2) facility and will be
moored over the deep-water Rotan gas
field, located off the Malaysian coast.
the new gross-split mechanism, which
requires investors to pay exploration
and production costs instead of relying
on the government’s reimbursement
as seen under the former costrecovery
scheme.
“We will offer all of those blocks in
early March,” the ministry’s secretarygeneral
Ego Syahrial told reporters
in January.
In December 2017, the ministry announced
it had found bidders for
five of 15 oil and gas blocks offered
through that year’s auction.
Among the bidders are the United
Arab Emirates-based Mubadala Petroleum,
Spain’s Repsol Exploración
SA and a consortium consisting of the
United Kingdom-based Premier Oil Far
East, Mubadala Petroleum and Singapore’s
Kris Energy.
MALAYSIA
ABB Completes the Tallest E-Houses
on A Floating LNG Facility
With a height of a five-story building, the
world’s tallest, single lift prefabricated
electrical structures – or e-houses – for offshore
use are being installed on a floating
liquefied natural gas facility (FLNG).
The installation, for Petroliam Nasional
Berhad (Petronas), is also the world’s first
commercial floating LNG facility featuring
ABB e-houses which are used to
In addition to its impressive size, the
project was completed with a record of
two million manhours with zero lost time
injury. A priority for safety has also been
imbedded into the future operations of
the facility by incorporating the latest
technologies adapted to corrosive offshore
environments. The fully engineered
electrical system contained within the e-
house will include transformers, switchboards,
motor-control centers and ABB’s
Process Power Manager that ensures reliable
and stable electricity supply to the
FLNG facility.
The ministry is optimistic that it will
also find many bidders for blocks offered
through the upcoming auction,
especially considering the increasing
crude prices.
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