Senator Pia Cayetano (center) visits the Malampaya Shallow Water Platform on Friday, June 28, with Prime Power Managing Director and Basic Supervisor Donnabel Kuizon Cruz and Prime Infra President and CEO Guillaume Lucci. PHOTO FROM PRIME INFRA
Senator Pia Cayetano, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Power, on Friday pushed for the event of indigenous fuel assets, citing the necessity for a “long- time period answer” to nationwide power safety and reliability.
Cayetano made the assertion after visiting the Malampaya Shallow Water Platform which is 50 kilometers off the coast of Palawan with executives of Prime Infra and Prime Power.
“Once you expertise this [visit] and also you see the form of investments that goes into making certain power safety and power reliability,” Cayetano stated on the go to.
“Reliability is you’ll have energy 24/7, safety is when you might have entry, and that’s the place indigenous [gas] is available in,” Cayetano stated:
“When we’ve got our personal supply, that provides us extra safety. It’s quite simple,” she stated.
The Malampaya Deepwater Gasoline-to-Energy undertaking is the nation’s first and solely indigenous fuel useful resource off the province of Palawan.
It provides about 20 p.c of Luzon’s electrical energy wants and has considerably contributed to the nation’s power independence since 2001.
“Our subsequent huge problem is exploration and making certain power provide for the following 15, 20 years,” Cayetano stated.
“As a result of our provide now could be primarily based on the planning that was accomplished 20 to 30 years in the past…It’s about planning long-term,” she stated.
“That’s what I hope I can convey to the dialogue and assist by means of policymaking,” Cayetano stated.
Prime Infra President and CEO Guillaume Lucci expressed appreciation to Cayetano for her go to, noting that having a member of the Senate witness the efforts of the Malampaya workforce to “hold the lights on” underscores the important significance of its work.
Lucci stated the go to coincided with Malampaya’s steady preparation for its Part 4 drilling program, which goals to drill and tie-in two new deepwater wells beginning 2025 and produce new fuel by 2026.
“We stay dedicated to supporting the Division of Power’s initiatives to reinforce the event of the nation’s indigenous gas assets the concept being that fuel is a pure transition gas because the Philippines strikes in direction of renewable power,” stated Lucci.
Prime Power Managing Director and Basic Supervisor Donnabel Kuizon Cruz stated exploration and improvement of a late-life fuel area like Malampaya requires extraordinary feats of engineering, which Prime Power and the SC 38 Consortium are dedicated to delivering safely.
“The strain of the fuel within the present reservoir goes down and the one approach to improve the manufacturing once more is to drill new wells in the identical reservoir,” stated Cruz.
“We’re greater than able to do it,” she stated.
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“We’re not simply growing fuel manufacturing however extending the lifetime of the platform as properly via upkeep actions,” stated Cruz.
