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Angsi is an integrated oil and gas development project in offshore east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is one of the biggest oil producers in Malaysia, contributing one-sixth of the total national daily oil production. During its planning and execution stages, the project has had many successes and positive outcomes. It has been recognized as the model of success for all domestic and international operations in PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. (PCSB). The uniqueness of achievements in Angsi project relies on the successfulness of integrating its people and technology. With the recent skyrocketing oil price, the trend has been to chase for additional reserves and maximize crude production, and make it happen by whatever means possible (new technologies, joint ventures, aggressive recruitments etc). However, many projects failed to achieve these targets, despite being equipped with niche and advanced technologies. Angsi project has successfully overcome these obstacles. The secret relies in the six key elements that have been nurtured in the working culture of every team member, which are; People, Focus, Integrated Approach, Planning, Communication and Feedback Loop. With this unique culture, it has allowed the team to achieve major successes over the past 5 years. Among those is the successful implementation of the largest platform-based hydraulic fracturing program worldwide, and first in Malaysia. This allows the development of 0.5 Tscf gas from the otherwise uneconomic tight gas reservoir. The team also managed to increase its reserves level 2.5 times from its initial size. Consequently, it increases Angsi's daily production rate from 65 to 115 Mstb/d. Finally, Angsi project successfully reduces its unit development cost (UDC) by 67%, lowering it from 5.1 USD/boe to 1.7 USD/boe. This paper discusses how the six key elements have contributed to the successes of Angsi Field Development Project. Introduction The Angsi field is located in the Malay Basin, about 106 miles off the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia in a water depth of 230ft (Figure 1). It is the largest integrated oil and gas development in Malaysia1, with four drilling platforms and one production platform. Angsi is a joint venture development between PCSB and ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia (EMEPMI), with the field being operated by PCSB. The major oil bearing reservoirs are the I-35 and I-68 sands, while the major gas bearing reservoirs are the I-1, I-85, I-100 and the tight K-group sands.

fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractReal time solutions: an innovative approach to making business-time critical driven decisions. It is designed to monitor, support, and optimize operations in real time and remotely to mitigate cost and risk at work sites. The workflows allowed real time monitoring and intervention of the drilling operating parameters from the office which resulted in greater operating efficiency and thus greater financial saving. This technology was instrumental to the Angsi development team's success in drilling Malaysia's longest development well to-date, Angsi-A028ST1 at a total depth of 6,339 meters.Real time well construction workflows begin when real time data on the rig site are gathered and transmitted to PETRONAS Carigali Sdn.Bhd, PCSB office via VSAT link. Data can be accessed via a web-based interface for 24 hours coverage anytime anywhere. The real time data are integrated into a geological and geophysical project database and fed into a 3D visualization tool which amalgamates the planned and current well trajectories within the geological earth model incorporating neighbouring wells with operations data. The simultaneous display of "knowledge-management-cubes" from daily drilling operational reporting software enables the team to review contingency plans and be pre-emptive by the captured lesson learnt.This technology creates multidisciplinary collaborations through the ether space, reducing communication gaps and greatly improving the decision making process. Examples: reducing the number of check trips, shortening the planned TD by comparing the real time data against correlated model, and helping in handling operational problems. The team has greatly benefited from RTO -technologies, people and processes -with a total cost saving of more than USD 1 million. This paper presents the real time system setup, architecture and scope of work in enabling 2D and 3D well visualization and integration. The value-added and the relative cost savings, observations and feedback are also presented

Angsi is an integrated oil and gas development project in offshore east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is one of the biggest oil producers in Malaysia, contributing one-sixth of the total national daily oil production. During its planning and execution stages, the project has had many successes and positive outcomes. It has been recognized as the model of success for all domestic and international operations in PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. (PCSB). The uniqueness of achievements in Angsi project relies on the successfulness of integrating its people and technology. With the recent skyrocketing oil price, the trend has been to chase for additional reserves and maximize crude production, and make it happen by whatever means possible (new technologies, joint ventures, aggressive recruitments etc). However, many projects failed to achieve these targets, despite being equipped with niche and advanced technologies. Angsi project has successfully overcome these obstacles. The secret relies in the six key elements that have been nurtured in the working culture of every team member, which are; people, focus, integrated approach, planning, communication and feedback loop. With this unique culture, it has allowed the team to achieve major successes over the past 5 years. Among those is the successful implementation of the largest platform-based hydraulic fracturing program worldwide, and first in Malaysia. This allows the development 0.5 TCF gas from the otherwise uneconomic tight gas reservoir. The team also managed to increase its reserves level 2.5 times from its initial size. Consequently, it increases Angsi's daily production rate from 65 to 115 kbpd. Finally, Angsi project successfully reduces its unit development cost (UDC) by 67%, lowering it from 5.1 USD/boe to 1.7 USD/boe. This paper discusses how the six key elements have contributed to the successes of Angsi Field Development Project. Introduction The Angsi field is located in the Malay Basin, about 106 miles off the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia in a water depth of 230ft (Figure 1). It is the largest integrated oil and gas development in Malaysia1, with four drilling platforms and one production platform. Angsi is a joint venture development between PCSB and ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia (EMEPMI), with the field being operated by PCSB. The major oil bearing reservoirs are the I-35 and I-68 sands, while the major gas bearing reservoirs are the I-1, I-85, I-100 and the tight K-group sands. The development team comprises people from diverse background. They come from either PCSB or EMEPMI, being multinational, multicultural, with various range of skills and experience level. With this diversity, forming an integrated team within a cooperative environment is not an easy task. In addition, there were risks involved in developing the Angsi field, considering the high level of uncertainties during the initial stages of development. The field also requires the implementation of new technologies to optimise production and reduce development costs. These situations create a real challenge for the team, which is to integrate between the people and the technology, besides minimizing the risks. Angsi team has formulated six key elements to overcome these challenges. These are; People, Focus, Integrated Approach, Planning, Communication and Feedback Loop (Figure 2). All these elements have been blended together and nurtured in the working culture of every team member. They play critical roles in realising many major achievements of the development project.

Most metals in nature are unstable and have the tendency to move its state to a more stable state in other words converted to its low energy oxides and this process called corrosion. As Corrosion, become one of the major problems and serious risks facing the oil industry that should be taken into account, since the first day of establishment of an industrial or oil plant. The cathodic protection (CP) system as the field experience has been proved is the most effective technique used in combination with coating for reducing corrosion process or eliminating it. This technique as the name suggests relied on making the part to be protected as the cathode of an electrochemical cell. This work highlights the most issues and problems that come with designing CP system such as (coating defect, interference, stray currents, etc.) with the use of the most common instruments used for inspection and testing cathodic protection system to ensure the system integrity and if it is working properly. Additionally, by the use of these instruments many variables and valuable parameters have been taken such as (PH, Soil resistivity, Coating thickness, moisture content, etc.) which will be used later for assessing system performance. The purpose of this article is to supply information and a basic knowledge, which will assist the corrosion engineer in the installation, operation, and maintenance of cathodic protection systems in an effective way. The corrosion engineer will be skillful to use not only the common electronic millimeters but also very specialized instrumentation.