bp has made the final investment decision to move forward with the Tangguh Ubadari CCUS Compression project (UCC) in Indonesia.
The UCC project includes the development of Ubadari gas field to enhance gas recovery through onshore compression and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS). It extends the gas feed to the Tangguh LNG plant in Papua Barat, Indonesia with the potential to reduce Tangguh’s operational emissions via CO2 sequestration.
Once completed, Tangguh EGR-CCUS itself will have three injection wells, one offshore injection platform, one offshore CO2 pipeline, and onshore infrastructure for CO2 removal, processing, and compression. Production at Ubadari field is expected to start in 2028.
The $7-billion project has the potential to produce about 3 tcf of additional gas. Tangguh CCUS aims to be the first CCUS project developed at scale in Indonesia, with potential for sequestering around 15 million tonnes of CO2 from Tangguh’s emissions in its initial phase.
bp is the operator of Tangguh LNG (40.22%), acting on behalf of Tangguh Production Sharing Contract Partners MI Berau BV (16.30%), CNOOC Muturi Ltd. (13.90%), Nippon Oil Exploration (Berau) Ltd. (12.23%), KG Berau Petroleum Ltd. (8.56%), KG Wiriagar Petroleum Ltd. (1.44%), and Indonesia Natural Gas Resources Muturi Inc. (7.35%).
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
