MHB to convert oil driller to well-stimulator for UESB
From drilling new wells to stimulating existing ones with EOR (Source: MHB)
Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB) has won a contract for conversion of a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) into a mobile water injection facility (WIF), for Uzma Engineering Sdn Bhd (UESB).
With completion scheduled for early 2025, the new WIF will be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), which allows more oil to be extracted from existing wells.
In the oil and gas industry, WIF is sometimes used to claim that operations are lower-emission, since the operational emissions involved in stimulating an existing well with a diminishing yield can be lower than drilling new ones, which are often further out to sea in harder-to-reach locations.
In due course it is expected that one of the well-stimulation technologies developed for EOR, CO2 injection, will form the basis of long-term carbon capture and storage (CCS).
“Uzma is pleased to be working with MHB on the conversion of our second WIF, which is scheduled for deployment in East Malaysia by mid-2025,” UZMA Berhad Group CEO Dato’ Kamarul Redzuan Muhamed. “Uzma pioneered the deployment of our mobile WIF solution in 2016 and it remains in operation today for our client. Our WIF solution has been proven to increase hydrocarbon production as well as maintain pressure to extend the oil field life cycle.”
