Natural Gas is a naturally formed gas consist of mainly methane and some other type of gases. It is relatively the cleanest when burned i.e it does not produce any toxic residues or other polluting gases when burned.
It is the ideal fuel to replace both diesel and petrol. It can be used for industries, power plants, transportation sectors and any kind of power requirement that uses diesel or petrol.
Malaysia have a huge deposit of this wonderful fuel. They are mainly hidden in reservoirs located deep below our sea bed in the south china sea. There are at least 183 proven natural gas reservoirs and 22 have been developed. Since there are still exploration works being carried out, there will automatically more new reservoirs be added as our asset. We can safely assume that every two months one new exploration well will be drilled and each exploration well will have a VERY HIGH possibility of hitting gas (60-70%).
Again we have many oil reservoirs in Malaysia. There are at least 140 provent reserves. Out of the 140 we are producing 55 of them.
Do you know what happened when we produce a barrel of oil deep from a reservoir of 3000 to 7000 feet? Remember at this depth the oil is under high compression and high temperature. Once produced the oil will travelled from these reservoirs upward to the surface for collection. When these oil reached surface temperature and pressure they will normally try to stabilise to suit the environment that they are in. To stabilised they releases lots of gas which we called associated gas. Each barrel will now become less then 60% of the oil beneath the sea bed.
These associated gas were initially burned away on our platforms and it will be like a huge torch in the south china sea. During early days the Vietnamese uses these torch as their guidance to enter Malaysian waters. After many long years of debating and confrontation, the gases were collected from various platforms and piped to the Kertih, cleaned and used as fuel. That was how the gas era started in Peninsular Malaysia. The plan was to use these associated gas as the main feedstock to various Independent Power Plants and once their volume decreases (due to decrease in oil production) non associated gas fields will be developed to top up and stabilise daily output.
These gases after being cleaned and dried are pump into the transpipeline. The transpipeline consist of 36 inch pipelines that were laid from Kertih to Segamat and from Segamat they brached out to Pasir Gudang to the South and up to Perlis at the Northen tip of Peninsular Malaysia. Now we have more the 980 Kilometers of pipeline full of clean fuel.
Initially the cleaned gas was designed to be for big users like the IPPs and Pewaja Steel. There are at least 7 IPPs using the gas right now. All the IPPs draw the gas at a very cheap rate and sold the power generated to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).
Pewaja Steel used to be a heavy user of the clean gas to convert scrap irons and iron ores to steel billets. In view of so many designed problems they have scaled down their operations and now no longer a major gas user.
One entity that is making lots of money from the gas pipeline is Gas Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Last year their profit jumps to more then 800 million Ringgit. This gas retriculation makes money buy buying gas from Petronas Gas and piped them to various industries located along the transpipeline. They have more then 36 towns that they tapped the main pipeline and distribute to the industrial areas in Peninsular Malaysia.
They have done a marvellous job to convert many medium industries to use Gas and therfore clean our admosphere. The only short coming is that they do it mainly for profit but not for the sake of the Public. If they have the intention of public they should have started NGV stations and encourage people to convert their vehicle to NGV class.
It is sad that they make so much money every year but have little commitment to use the Gas as alternative fuel for Vehicles.
These gases can be used as NGV too. Yes they are more or less the same in composition and produce the same amount of energy when burned.
It is the ideal fuel to replace both diesel and petrol. It can be used for industries, power plants, transportation sectors and any kind of power requirement that uses diesel or petrol.
Malaysia have a huge deposit of this wonderful fuel. They are mainly hidden in reservoirs located deep below our sea bed in the south china sea. There are at least 183 proven natural gas reservoirs and 22 have been developed. Since there are still exploration works being carried out, there will automatically more new reservoirs be added as our asset. We can safely assume that every two months one new exploration well will be drilled and each exploration well will have a VERY HIGH possibility of hitting gas (60-70%).
Again we have many oil reservoirs in Malaysia. There are at least 140 provent reserves. Out of the 140 we are producing 55 of them.
Do you know what happened when we produce a barrel of oil deep from a reservoir of 3000 to 7000 feet? Remember at this depth the oil is under high compression and high temperature. Once produced the oil will travelled from these reservoirs upward to the surface for collection. When these oil reached surface temperature and pressure they will normally try to stabilise to suit the environment that they are in. To stabilised they releases lots of gas which we called associated gas. Each barrel will now become less then 60% of the oil beneath the sea bed.
These associated gas were initially burned away on our platforms and it will be like a huge torch in the south china sea. During early days the Vietnamese uses these torch as their guidance to enter Malaysian waters. After many long years of debating and confrontation, the gases were collected from various platforms and piped to the Kertih, cleaned and used as fuel. That was how the gas era started in Peninsular Malaysia. The plan was to use these associated gas as the main feedstock to various Independent Power Plants and once their volume decreases (due to decrease in oil production) non associated gas fields will be developed to top up and stabilise daily output.
These gases after being cleaned and dried are pump into the transpipeline. The transpipeline consist of 36 inch pipelines that were laid from Kertih to Segamat and from Segamat they brached out to Pasir Gudang to the South and up to Perlis at the Northen tip of Peninsular Malaysia. Now we have more the 980 Kilometers of pipeline full of clean fuel.
Initially the cleaned gas was designed to be for big users like the IPPs and Pewaja Steel. There are at least 7 IPPs using the gas right now. All the IPPs draw the gas at a very cheap rate and sold the power generated to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).
Pewaja Steel used to be a heavy user of the clean gas to convert scrap irons and iron ores to steel billets. In view of so many designed problems they have scaled down their operations and now no longer a major gas user.
One entity that is making lots of money from the gas pipeline is Gas Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Last year their profit jumps to more then 800 million Ringgit. This gas retriculation makes money buy buying gas from Petronas Gas and piped them to various industries located along the transpipeline. They have more then 36 towns that they tapped the main pipeline and distribute to the industrial areas in Peninsular Malaysia.
They have done a marvellous job to convert many medium industries to use Gas and therfore clean our admosphere. The only short coming is that they do it mainly for profit but not for the sake of the Public. If they have the intention of public they should have started NGV stations and encourage people to convert their vehicle to NGV class.
It is sad that they make so much money every year but have little commitment to use the Gas as alternative fuel for Vehicles.
These gases can be used as NGV too. Yes they are more or less the same in composition and produce the same amount of energy when burned.
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Do you know the molar fractions of compunds for natural gas that is collected from the gas wells in Malaysia?
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