Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Evan Calio – Morgan Stanley
Evan Calio – Morgan Stanley
I have follow-up question on the production guidance, I know you identified primarily related to Sarawak gas, it sounds like above ground issues. Can you provide an exit rate there into year end and expectations for volumes into 2010 or even more color on what you are doing to get that back on track.
David Wood
Sarawak gas, we had some very good results in the drilling and in the floating of the wells and the productive capacity from the offshore facilities is 300 million plus. The issue for us is in the onshore receiving facility, and just delving down into the specifics, the real issue is with the rental compressors that we have and a particular piece of equipment that relates to each of those compressors.
So its uniform throughout all of the set up there. And once we got started up we realized we had a problem. We took the facility down for a few days and are now back up, I think today’s production is about 140 million a day. And I would think we’d be well north of 200 before the end of the month and assuming that we don’t have a repeat of these issues which I don’t think we will, we’ll be getting back to where we need to be here pretty handily.
So those are the reasons why production was down in that one particular case.
Evan Calio – Morgan Stanley
A different question on under lift issue, I heard Kikeh lifting due in December, I presume that’s included in your sales at 184 for the quarter and I know you under lifted in the third quarter and are projecting under lift in the fourth quarter, can you quantify your net under lift and how we think these will unwind.
David Wood
It just so happens that when we look at our lifting position we have a whole bunch of fields that all put us in that same position so when they add up together if I look at the list here we’re at 300,000 barrels behind at Kikeh, 380,000 barrels behind at West Pat, 240,000 barrels behind at Azurite, and normally all those things don’t happen at the same time.
They just happened to coincide here. So in the grand scheme of things looking back at the data we generally are not more then one lifting out of balance. And this just happens to be an occurrence where we have several fields that are important to us all at the same status. So that’s really the issue.
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