19. Jurnal Paper (2024): Incorporating Modularity Approach during Planning Stage for Greenfield Gas Development

Greenfield project is viewed of having less technical complexity compared to brownfield one. In gas development project, greenfield is yet heavily influenced by other complexities such as hydrocarbon evacuation and commercial arrangement. Unlike oil projects, a gas project would never be sanctioned if there is no clarity in the arrangement of sales and its commerciality.

Furthermore, for certain projects which have limited economics, the development concept will play a significant role in determining project feasibility. Some scenarios of cost deployment may be involved such as staging development and buy or rent option. The keys are to optimize project schedule and project cost to meet the minimum economic threshold.

Technology selection will also be critical to optimize the first-gas timeline and its cost. In addition, modular facilities have been matured up in recent years, so that project schedule can be compressed to accelerate the production. It is also expected that cost optimization can be further exercised to support the project economics particularly for marginal development project.

This paper discusses the modularity approach during the planning stage has changed the development strategy and project cost. It is a greenfield development with limited volume of hydrocarbon in typical PSC terms applied in Indonesia. In addition, the possible implementation of CCS program will add burden in the economics that potentially sets project as marginal development.

Keywords: greenfield gas development project, modular facilities, modularity approach, project schedule, project cost, cost optimization, schedule compression

Find out detail at: Jurnal IAFMI Edition-16 published December 2024