25 Aug TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS FOR OFFSHORE FACILITIES – REACH INTEGRATED AWARDED VSAT CONNECTIVITY FOR MOBILE OFFSHORE PRODUCTION UNIT (MOPU) UNDER PETRONAS’ BAYAN REDEVELOPMENT GAS PHASE 2 PROJECT
PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Bhd or PETRONAS. PCSB is Malaysia’s premier organization which engages in locating, exploring and producing oil and gas reservoirs. It also engages in oil and gas well drilling, as well as engineering, construction & commissioning natural gas pipeline and associated facilities.
PCSB is also the operator for the BAYAN field which is located in Sub-block 4Q-21 of Balingian Province, about 80km NorthWest of Bintulu MLNG in a water depth of approximately 30m. The existing BAYAN hub comprises of Drilling Platform (BYDP-A), Production Platform (BYP-A), Compression Platform (BYGA) and Riser Platform (BYR-A). All of them are interconnected via bridge links. The Satellite Drilling Platforms namely BYDP-B, BYDP-C and BYDP-D and Vent Platform BYVA are interconnected to BYP-A via subsea pipelines.
BAYAN is a producing oil field that is being further developed under brownfield BAYAN Gas Redevelopment Project Phase 2, using a new-built floating Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) to enable gas separation and processing. The MOPU will be connected to the existing BYR-A riser platform via a new 12.7km-long pipeline between the BYDP-C and BYR-A platforms. It will have a processing capacity of approximately 100 million cubic feet per day of gas.
Tanjung Offshore Services Sdn Bhd or TOS (a wholly owned subsidiary of T7 Global Berhad) is responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation & commissioning as well as the operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the BAYAN MOPU project.
Under such arrangement, TOS has awarded Reach Integrated with a Contract to provide Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Connectivity, IP Telephone & Facsimile Services and Internet Connectivity Services at the new BAYAN MOPU. The Contract duration if two (2) years with option for contract extension upon mutual agreement.