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INDONESIA - The ExxonMobil Natuna Operation.

One of the fields in the East Natuna Sea, still disputed with Vietnam (and China has hinted a claim over this archipelago) is called L in the D-Alpha Block. This is the one to be developed by ExxonMobil in a $42 bn project to produce up to 15m t/y of LNG and gas to be supplied by marine pipeline

to Thailand and other markets. The field has about 210-250 TCF of gas in place. But more than 70% is CO2.

Only about 45 TCF of methane and other gases can be exploited. L field was discovered in 1973 by Agip, which held the D-Alpha Block in equal partnership with Tenneco and Phillips. The Italian company and its partners sold the block to Exxon in 1979 (see the background in Vol. 52, No. 10, of 8/15 March 1999).

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