The Indonesian unit of China' CNOOC has partially resumed production from four fields in Indonesia's Southeast Sumatra block, or the SES block, after being shut end September due to a fire at its FSO, or floating storage and offloading vessel, a senior government official said Tuesday.
"We have deployed a temporary FSO to replace the fire-hit one. The fields have resumed production at 9,000 b/d since end October. We found difficulty in reaching normal production as the power supply is not normal. If the power problem is solved, we can reach normal production," the head of Indonesia's upstream regulator BPMigas' communication division Gde Pradnyana told Platts.
CNOOC, which was producing 16,000 b/d from the four fields -- Widuri, Intan, Aida and Indri -- shut production September 23 after the leased FSO Lentera Bangsa, which was then undergoing maintenance, caught fire, Pradnyana said.
The 82,000 barrels of crude on the FSO at the time of the fire was not affected, Platts reported earlier. The SES block, located in the Java sea, can produce 38,320 b/d of crude and condensate.
Operator CNOOC has 65.54% stake in the block. The other stakeholders are Japan's Inpex and South Korean KNOC.