SSPC found oil in its first deep-water well in Block G, offshore Sabah.Kinabalu (KNDP-A) came on stream ahead of schedule, the first unmanned and fully remote-controlled platform in Sabah, a field developed exclusively with horizontal or multi-lateral wells.Shell Malaysia Upstream was the first to apply multi-lateral well drilling technology in Asia Pacific region, at South Furious, Sabah.The Lutong Refinery became the first Malaysian refinery and second within the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Group to clock 10 years without lost time injuries.SSB’s second deep-water PSC was signed for Block E, offshore Sarawak with water depths up to 2,000metres.M1 in Miri, the second gas field of the MLNG-DUA development, produced first gas.Shell Malaysia Upstream Professorial Chair at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) was established.SSB installed the M3PQ-A integrated production module 225km off Bintulu, breaking two world records at that time - the 7,700 tonne topsides was the biggest in Asia, and the most remote offshore platform.Labuan Crude Oil Terminal celebrated 20 years, starting with 3,600 barrels per day to 100,000 barrels per day.SSPC’s first deep-water PSC was signed for Block G offshore Sabah.Kebabangan field in Sabah was discovered by Shell in 1994.Datuk Tan Ek Kia became the first Sarawakian and Managing Director for Shell Malaysia Upstream.MLNG DUA PSC was signed to develop 11 gas fields for supply to the MLNG DUA Plant in Bintulu.Shell’s Lutong Refinery, Malaysia’s first refinery, awarded MS-ISO 9002-1991 by SIRIM.Project LINK launched together with Ministry of Education Malaysia to produce locally qualified welders for the oil and gas in Sarawak and Sabah.Shell Malaysia Upstream became first in the Royal Dutch Shell Plc group to set the world safety record by clocking 10 million work hours without lost time injury.Kinabalu-1 of the SB-1 acreage struck oil in Sabah.SSB initiated the inaugural Kenyalang Press Award to motivate and celebrate the Sarawak media fraternity.SSB started the corporate social responsibility programme called, “We Care, We Share” that spanned around Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan.Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited (SSPC) drilled Malaysia’s first horizontal well in the Erb West field, 180km offshore Labuan.Sabah Gas came on stream through Samarang Gas Complex.F23 in Sarawak, Malaysia’s second gas complex, tied-in to E11, began production.First natural gas shipped from MLNG plant in Bintulu, Sarawak.Shell’s first natural gas field E11 in Sarawak came on-stream, with a structure measuring about 1,000 feet end-to-end.Barton platform, Sabah began production.St Joseph platform, Sabah began production of oil. Oil seepages in the Baram, Miri area explored and mapped.The presence of oil in Miri was recorded.Josef Theodor Erb was sent by the company, after it had obtained the concession and lease from the Rajah, along with Dr.Hose as its guest to investigate Dr.Hose’s finds. (A Shell Company based in London) Chief Geologist, Dr. However, it was only on his return to England on retirement in 1904, that he managed to get permission from the Rajah to share his maps and samples with the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company. It was through all these frequent trips that he also discovered that unpolished rice was the cure to beriberi. He also built up an invaluable collection on Sarawak’s natural history. In 1888, his successor, Dr Charles Hose, studied the oil seepages and compiled a map of the area showing no less than 28 oil seepages.Īn anthropologist, geographer, and an avid collector of Natural Specimens, Hose had managed to explore and map oil seepages occurring in the Baram area. Two years later, he again recommended “the oil district near the mouth of the Miri River be thoroughly searched and reported on”. He suggested to the then Rajah Sarawak, Sir Charles Brooke, that an investigation be made, but nothing was done, probably because during that time the demand for oil in Sarawak was nil. He wrote in his diary about oil found in some 18 wells dug by hand by the locals in Miri. In 1882, the then Resident of Baram, Mr.Claude Champion de Crisping, first recorded the presence of oil in Sarawak.
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