Drilling operation in deepwater remote area in the Southeast Asia

INPEX has drilled seven deepwater wells in offshore remote area in the Southeast Asia. We have experienced a lot of lessons learnt from the perspective of the remote area and the deepwater operation. In this paper, four main topics are described which are utilization of material warehouse vessel to support the remote drilling operation, difficulties to utilize the semi-submersible drilling rig with marginal specification for water depth, operational difficulty at 13-3/8″casing stuck, and successful operations to tie back 9-5/8″liner with casing.