Project Profile
Location: northern Rakhine Basin, Burma (Myanmar)
Exploration and appraisal drilling program: 2017
Water depth: 2,200 - 2,300
Area: 8,098 sq km (AD-2) and 7,479 sq km (A-4)
Woodside has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) for offshore blocks AD-2 and A-4 in the 2013 Myanmar Offshore Bid Round. Execution of the PSCs authorises Woodside to begin exploration work in the blocks, subject to preliminary environmental approvals.
Operators:
Blocks AD-2
Shell: Operator with 55% interest
Woodside Energy: 45% interest
Block A-4
Shell: Operator with 45% interest
Woodside Energy: 45% interest
Myanmar Petroleum Exploration & Production (MPEP): 10 interest
Contractors:
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS): Conract to hire seismic vessel Ramford Titan to conduct the industry’s first ever single vessel 18 streamer seismic operation. The Ramform Titan has been shooting offshore Myanmar, in the Bay of Bengal, since November 2015. The vessel is mapping the A-4 and AD-2 blocks. The Ramform Titan seismic spread is 18 streamers, each 7.05 kilometres long, with 100 meter separation between the streamers. This makes a total spread width of 1.7 kilometres and represents close to 127 kilometres of streamers. The total surface area of the streamer spread is 15.6 square kilometres. (December, 2015)