Italy’s Eni has started the tender ball rolling for the fast-track development of its Merakes gas field on the Sepinggan production sharing contract off Indonesia, write Amanda Battersby and Nishant Ugal.

Eni has drawn up two engineering, procurement, installation and construction packages for Merakes, which will be exploited as a subsea tie-back to its producing Jangkrik field floating production unit 35 kilometres to the northeast.