Drilling operation in Malaysia are typically from offshore, thus offshore weather condition does contributed to the success or delay of a drilling operation. Wait on Weather (WOW) especially during monsoon season in Malaysia has impacted Operator's drilling operation, thus incurring additional cost to Operator. Monsoon season in Malaysia is typically from November to February every year. This paper will discuss and share the statistics of actual WOW happening from 2008 to 2019 in Malaysia water especially for jack-up rig (JUR) and tender assisted drilling rig (TADR) which are two common rigs in Malaysia water. The data was collected from one of the drilling operator in Malaysia. These data will be of assistance to Operator in better planning and executing drilling operation with the actual statistics as the risk factor. WOW is considered as non-productive time (NPT), thus NPT data gathering from Operators in Malaysia water were conducted. Data was then filtered to achieve the WOW data. WOW data was segregated between region in Malaysia which are Peninsular Malaysia (PM), Sabah (SB) and Sarawak (SK) as well as rig type, which are JUR and TADR. Distribution analysis were made to calculate the average and observe the maximum numbers of actual WOW occurrence. Further analysis was made to zoom into monsoon season in Malaysia which typically in November to February. 11 years data is generally good coverage for the analysis since it covers the up and down of oil and gas industry. Analysis was also done for both mob/demob and operation stage where it can be observed that WOW for mob/demob stage during monsoon season is significantly higher compared to operation stage. At the end of the analysis, the average or maximum numbers of WOW will be shared, and it will be used as recommendation for future projects to consider these figures as WOW risk factor and embed in the planning stage. This paper will help not only Operators in Malaysia water but the host authority on understanding the WOW risk factor during monsoon season. As WOW is not something that can be predicted, utilizing the standard results from actual statistic data for the past 11 years will assist engineers to incorporate the WOW risk factor during planning and execution stage. Rig and project sequencing can be optimized with understanding of WOW impact thus reducing the value leakage during operation due to WOW.

This paper describes a step change by well completion group in adopting Single Trip Liner Open Hole Completion (STRIP-LOC) technology, basis of selection, design, and operation approach. This has contributed to the reduction in initial well cost estimates thus benefited overall project cost. The technology adoption signifies the importance for continuous design improvement, operational optimization, and capital expenditure reduction, while not compromising with technical and HSE standards.

This paper will discuss the case study of two (2) projects in Malaysia that were stretched-to-limit and optimized ‘on-paper’ all the wells’ related engineering design and construction, operation activities pre and during drilling campaign as well as logistic arrangement, which led to significant cost reduction in wells and thus improving the overall project economics. This significant savings achieved with full compliance to technical standards as well as with the betterment to improve HSE during offshore execution.

2020 marks another challenging year for O&G sector, with the operators being in an uphill battle to survive the plunging oil price. With CAPEX rationalization underway, future field development may only be prospective via implementation of low-cost Field Development Plan (FDP). As well cost is a significant component of development CAPEX, low well cost must be pursued, by designing fit-for-purpose wells. For relatively shallow (≈2000 m-MD in meterage drilled) wells, a simple well design consisting of only two-hole sections (excluding Conductor) shall be considered. This design approach though, may require the Surface Casing to also be the Production Casing (if only Production Liner will be ran in the production hole section or if open hole completion is feasible or if cemented monobore completion strategy is adopted). This aspect of casing design (having Surface cum Production Casing) does indeed pose well integrity concerns as the quality of cement behind the Surface cum Production Casing is uncompromisable to ensure no gas can breach to surface. This paper discusses the design measures than can be incorporated into the well trajectory, cementing plan, and production surveillance in order to support the feasibility of Surface cum Production Casing concept.

This paper discusses the Case study of Field A in offshore Sarawak, Malaysia which focus on re-thinking development based on statistical analysis of the fields. Conventionally, well design is driven by subsurface requirement by targeting the high-reserve sand and well is designed to meet subsurface objectives. However, the conventional way may not be efficient to develop matured field environment due to the high CAPEX and the inconsistencies among well design especially in current volatile oil price period. The objective of this fit-for-purpose approach which is called "Cone Concept Statistical Approach" is to steer away from the conventional way of targeting only sweet spots whilst leaving the remaining potential resources undeveloped. Based on the statistical analysis and subsurface fields pattern, the "Cone Concept Statistical Approach" in which standardizing well design and trajectories was developed to extract the whole fields’ reserve at maximum. Well design boundaries were introduced to ensure this approach can be replicated throughout the field. Not only this study covers drilling perspective, completion perspective was also taken into consideration by exploring a cheaper and fit for purpose sand control method, considering it is a matured field with relatively short remaining field life. The Well Cost Catalogue for this field-specific approach was also developed which contains different types of design and completion, in order to holistically evaluate sand control method and identify the best option for the project moving forward. This "Cone Concept Statistical Approach" aims to enable operator to drill simple wells within the same allocated budget in which poses low-to-no risk in the design and execution phase. This promotes a learning curve to improve operation & HSE, and ultimately gets positive project economics. Since this simple approach can be implemented early on even during the pre-FEL stage, the FDP team & host authority can come together to jointly discuss the targets/platform ranking and segregate them into various phases. Hence, the number of platforms or drilling centers, and its location also can be optimized early on with this concept, and again, translating into further reduction in overall project cost. This paper will help other operators and host authority to understand better on how a specific development concept on statistical approach can result and turn the matured-challenging fields into more economically attractive projects – low overall development cost and maximizing the recovery.