Eni finds 5tcf of gas in Indonesia’s Kutei Basin

Italian vigor institution Eni has discovered astir 5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of state successful spot with its Geliga‑1 exploration good successful the Ganal block, offshore Indonesia’s Kutei Basin.

Early estimates besides bespeak the beingness of 300 cardinal barrels (mbbl) of condensate astatine the site.

Situated astir 70km disconnected the seashore of East Kalimantan, the Geliga‑1 good reached a full extent of astir 5,100m and is positioned successful waters astir 2,000m deep.

Drilling astatine the good uncovered a important state file wrong the targeted Miocene formation.

The Geliga‑1 find lies wrong the Ganal accumulation sharing declaration (PSC), wherever Eni holds an 82% operating involvement and Sinopec owns the remaining 18%.

Eni plans to behaviour a drill stem trial to measure the productivity of the reservoir.

This find follows a bid of finds successful the Kutei Basin, including Geng North, which was discovered successful precocious 2023, and the Konta‑1 find announced successful December 2025.

The Geliga‑1 find comes aft last concern decisions were made for the Gendalo and Gandang state developments successful the South Hub, arsenic good arsenic for the Geng North and Gehem sites successful the North Hub.

The North Hub task volition utilise a caller floating production, retention and offloading (FPSO) installation susceptible of handling 1 cardinal modular cubic feet per time (bscf/d) of state and 90,000 barrels per time (bpd) of condensate. Additionally, the task volition marque usage of the existing Bontang LNG facility.

Eni is assessing options to velocity up the improvement of the Geliga‑1 discovery, taking into relationship its determination adjacent existing and planned infrastructure.

The caller tract sits adjacent to the undeveloped Gula discovery, which holds an estimated 2tcf of state and 75mbbl of condensate.

Combined resources from Geliga and Gula are expected to enactment further accumulation of 1bscf/d of state and 80,000bpd of condensate.

Studies are successful advancement to measure the imaginable constitution of a 3rd accumulation hub successful the Kutei Basin and to analyse the anticipation of expanding liquefaction capableness astatine the Bontang LNG plant.

In the past six months, Eni has drilled 4 further wells wrong the Kutei Basin.

It plans to proceed its exploration successful the country with a further good scheduled for this twelvemonth and 2 for adjacent year.

The Ganal PSC is portion of a radical of 19 blocks successful Indonesia and Malaysia that volition beryllium developed by Searah, a caller associated task betwixt Eni and Petronas, announced successful November 2025.

Searah volition harvester assets, method skills and fiscal resources, aiming to make astir 3 cardinal barrels of lipid equivalent successful discovered reserves and unlock further exploration successful the region.