Project Profile
Location: Bay of Bengal
Area: 9,830 square km
Exploration start-up: 2017
Production start-up: 2023
Block A-6 lies in the Bay of Bengal about 250 km south of the Shwe gas field.
Woodside Petroleum planned to drill up to two wells in 2017, one of which is a firm well and one of which is optional. A-6’s first appraisal well, Pyi Thit-1, was spudded on June 8, 2017 and will reach depths of 4,570 metres using a TransOcean drill ship in 2,000 metres of water.
The proposed wells were drilled within the boundary of A-6 but no closer than 35 km to the coastline.
Woodside successfully conducted the Thazin 3D marine seismic survey in block A-6, which commenced on April 11, 2016 and concluded on May 6, 2016.
MPRL E&P signed a PSC for Block A-6 in 2007 and made the first gas discovery in the southern offshore Rakhine Basin in 2012 during its Pyi Thar exploration drilling campaign.
In late 2015, MPRL E&P and its partners embarked on the Shwe Yee Htun exploration drilling campaign and drilled a second exploration well in Block A-6. Exploration well Shwe Yee Htun-1 was drilled in record setting water depths of 2034 metres and resulted in a second gas discovery which was officially announced in January 2016.
Martaban Cities Services and Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) shot 1,870 km of 2D seismic acquisition in the early 1970s in Block A-6. CGG conducted a non-exclusive 2D seismic survey in 1993 along the Myanmar section of the Bay of Bengal.
Operators:
Woodside Energy (Myanmar) (40%)
MPRL E&P (20%)
Total (40%)
Contractors:
Polarcus: A full-fold 1,720 sq km 3D survey in water depths of 1,600-2,000 metres for the offshore Block A-6