Key Points
- First Period of Exploration and Development
- Hunting for the Structural Play …and more than that
- Second Period
- Rethinking the Petroleum System
- Finding a New Giant
- Third Period
- Follow-up, still in progress…
- Establishing a New Field Model
- Improved Seismic Resolution
- Hydrodynamics at Work in the Mahakam — and Elsewhere
Main Drivers of Success
- The “Hard Skills”
- Regional perspective, re-questioning of the petroleum system & field model
- Out-of-the-box thinking with relativistic view of past “dry” wells
- Creative “what if” approach
- Well focused application of technological advances
- The “Soft Skills”
- Tenacity & power of conviction
- Fundamental optimistic attitude
- Strong team spirit
- Proactive management that really wants to drill exploration wells