Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal

Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal

The terminal as been photographed in 2014.
Alternative names SOGT
General information
Type Oil and gas terminal
Current tenants Petronas
Groundbreaking 2007
Construction started 2011
Completed 2014
Cost RM2.4 billion ($752.16 million)[1]
Owner Sabah State Government

Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) is a terminal located in Kimanis, Sabah of Malaysia. The terminal handles the production of oil and gas from the West Coast Field in South China Sea facing the western coast of Sabah, which covering the operations of Sabah Gas Terminal, Labuan Crude Oil Terminal and the Labuan Gas Terminal. Covering an area of about 250 acres, with a capacity to handle up to 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day and 1.0 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day. The terminal stores oil before it is transported by tanker.[2][3] The terminal is also connected to another terminal in neighbouring Sarawak through the Sabah–Sarawak Gas Pipeline.[1]

History

The proposal to build the terminal has been put forward since 2005. The ground-breaking was officiated by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2007. In 2010, South Korean-company Samsung Engineering signed a $770 million contract with Petronas to jointly develop the project.[1][4] A Sarawak-based Malaysian construction company, Naim Holdings Berhad also entered the joint venture with the project was finally complete in 2014.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Report: Sabah 2011. Oxford Business Group. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-1-907065-36-1.
  2. ↑ "Sabah - Sarawak Integrated Oil & Gas Project". Petronas. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Exciting year for oil & gas industry". Daily Express. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Samsung Engineering officially signs the Sabah Oil & Gas Terminal Project". europetrole. 21 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT)". Naim Holdings Berhad. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

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