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Makassar Strait

a strait between the islands of Borneo (Kalimantan) and Celebes, joining the Celebes Sea in the north and the Java Sea in the south. Length, approximately 500 km; width, about 200 km; and depths, to 2,458 m. The currents are monsoonal. Ports along the strait are Balikpapan (on Borneo) and Ujung Pandang (on Celebes).

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Production will come from the Bangka gas field, one of several Makassar Strait projects, before other fields start up in 2016 for output of 1,120 MCF/d and condensate production of 55,000 b/d.

Indonesia's Oil & Gas Fields - Chevron Operations

Ruby is located in the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan and the island of Sulawesi, within the Sebuku Production Sharing Contract area.

Pearl Energy to invest $350m in Indonesia gas field

The Ruby Gas field is located in the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan and the island of Sulawesi.

Mubadala wins approval for Ruby Gas field in Indonesia

The area lies in Makassar Strait. It includes Gendalo-Gehem, Maha, Gandang and Ranggas, which form part of the Ganal Block concession operated by Chevron Ganal Ltd.; and Ranggas and Gendalo-Gehem which are on the Rapak Block operated by Chevron.

INDONESIA - Other Chevron Operations

13, 2010, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted Makassar strait, Sunday at 10.59 pm Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB).

Earthquake Jolts Indonesia

A Strait of Malacca B Makassar Strait C Sundra Strait D Torres Strait QUESTION 15 - for 15 points: From which shipwreck did Grace Darling and her father rescue many survivors in 1838?

Accumulator Quiz; Each question has four possible answers and is worth from one to 15 points. Circle your chosen answers and keep a record of your points total. Maximum total points 120

More importantly, it has extended financial assistance to the littoral states to improve maritime domain awareness capabilities in the Straits including the provision of five coastal radar surveillance stations situated along the Indonesia side of the Strait (and seven in the Makassar Strait and Celebes Sea).

With a little help from my friends: maritime capacity-building measures in the Straits of Malacca

One of its legacy programs in maritime security is a chain of radar stations along the entire length of the Strait of Malacca and a similar surveillance system for the Makassar Strait. The Country Team got the program going from various pots of money in the State Department and Justice Department, tapping as well into so-called Section 1206 money, named after a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act that allows the Pentagon to use these funds to assist other countries in counterterrorism, stabilization and reconstruction, humanitarian relief, and other nontraditional missions.

Getting Indonesia right: managing a security partnership with a nonallied country

Earlier Pertamina said it wants to have a stake of at least 10% in the Makassar Strait Block, which will have a production capacity of up to 800 million cubic feet of gas a per day.

Pertamina's oil output off target