BP reportedly made a significant new offshore gas discovery in the large West Papua Berau PSC, Indonesia, with the Kepe-Kepe-1 sidetrack, according to oil and gas regulator SKK Migas. The well, drilled by the Valaris 106 jack-up in the Berau PSC, Bintuni Basin, reached a TD below 4,000 m, discovering the reservoir in Jurassic sandstones.
The primary target was a structural closure in the Lower Kembelangan clastics, with a secondary target in the Daram-Waripi formations. The prospect appeared to have good amplitude support and a gas cloud above the main targets. The rig has since moved to drill Wos-2, an appraisal of Occidental’s 1992 gas discovery.
The well is the first drilled in the block since 2018’s Uba Deep-1 gas discovery, some 35km west of the Kepe-Kepe discovery. If proved up, the discovery would likely be utilised as further feedstock for the bp-operated Tannguh LNG, where the third train expansion began its first shipment in October 2023.
