Wortel will be developed as a tie-back to the Santos-operated Oyong oil and gas field, which is 7 km east of the Wortel Field.
The scope of the Wortel development includes two gas wells, a minimum facility wellhead platform and the 10 km gas pipeline to the existing Oyong well-head platform.
Wortel’s gas production will then flow through an existing 60 km pipeline to the onshore gas processing facility at Grati for processing and onward sale.
Gross gas production rates from the combined Oyong and Wortel fields are expected to be about 90 MMcf/d. Oyong currently produces about 60 MMcf/d of gas and 3,500 bbl/d of oil.
The project is estimated at $US100 million gross and first gas is expected by the end of 2011.