KUCHING (Aug 28): Sarawak Shell Bhd (Sarawak Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has announced that gas production has started at its Timi platform offshore Sarawak under the SK318 production sharing contract (PSC).

Timi features Shell’s first wellhead platform in Malaysia that is powered by a solar and wind hybrid power system. This unmanned platform is also more cost efficient, as a result of it being around 60 per cent lighter in weight, than a conventional tender-assisted drilling wellhead platform that relies on oil and gas for power.