Total Exploration & Production Myanmar
Keywords : Gas Export
Description : Total in Myanmar at a Glance
Milestones
Production sharing contract signed in July 1992. Total E&P Myanmar’s Code of Conduct introduced in mid-1995. Construction work ($1 billion investment) implemented between October 1995 and June 1998. Commercial production for export began in 2000: average production from 2001 to June 2010: 18.54 million cubic meters per day. Commercial production for the domestic Myanmar market: 1.48 million cubic meters per day since June 2010.
Project Description
Four investors in the Yadana Consortium: Total E&P Myanmar, operator (31.2%); an affiliate of Unocal, now Chevron (28.3%);
Petroleum Authority of Thailand-Exploration & Production (PTT-EP, 25.5%); and Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE, 15%). Offshore gas production unit, 346-kilometer subsea pipeline, 63-kilometer onshore pipeline through Thanintharyi Division to the Thai border.
Thirty years of estimated reserves. Eighty-seven percent of gas production sold to Thailand to supply gas-fired power plants in the Bangkok area. The socio-economic program for villages in the onshore pipeline area was introduced in early 1995.
Yadana Project
Total operates the Yadana gas field with a 31.2% interest. Commercial production began in 2000, with an expected field life of 30 years. The Yadana gas field is located in the Andaman Sea, approximately 60 kilometers offshore the nearest landfall in Myanmar.
The gas is supplied to Thai power plants and is also sold in Myanmar’s domestic market. The gas is transported onshore via a 346-kilometer subsea pipeline. A 63-kilometer onshore pipeline then carries it to the Thai border.
The pipeline region had approximately 50, 000 inhabitants at the end of 2009. The inhabitants of the 13 villages closest to the pipeline area have been covered by the socio-economic program since 1995. Since then, another 12 villages have been added. |
