Indonesia's $6 Billion UCC Tangguh Project Reaches 54 Percent as First Well Is Spudded
Drilling of the UBA-01 development well began November 1 at the bp-operated Ubadari-CCUS-Compression project in West Papua, with two more wells to follow within ten days.
The Ubadari-CCUS-Compression (UCC) project at the Tangguh field in West Papua — a national strategic project with an investment of about US$6 billion, operated by bp and overseen by SKK Migas — has reached 54 percent progress. Spudding of the first development well, UBA-01, began at 6:15 a.m. local time on November 1, with wells UBA-02 and UBA-03 scheduled to follow on November 7 and 10 in a batch drilling campaign.
The project scope covers five wells on two offshore platforms, carbon capture and storage facilities, and onshore gas compression, with CO2 injection wells scheduled for 2028. As the mega project enters an intensive construction-and-drilling phase under international-operator standards, it brings sustained demand for contractors and services across Papua Barat, with documentation, HSE reporting and audit-trail requirements to match.