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Tunu is a mature giant gas and condensate field locates in Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The area has been developed for almost 30 years and is currently considered a mature field, where putting a state of an economical oil well has become more challenging nowadays. The deeper zone of Tunu has no longer been considered profitable to be produced. The current focus is more on the widespread shallow gas pocket located in the much more external area of Tunu. One phase well is architecture without 9-5/8" surface casing. OPW is one-section drilling using a diverter mode from surface to TD without using BOP. Historical for OPW is began from 2018, where drilling reservoir section using diverter mode in two-phase. In 2018 also succeeded in performing perforated surface casing. Due to a successful drilling operation using diverter and perforated surface casing in 2019, drilling trials for OPW were carried out. The OPW architecture has become one of the standard architectures used in drilling operations as an optimization effort. Until December 2020, PHM* has completed 15+ OPW wells. A general comparison of OPW and SLA well is at the cost of constructing a well of approximately 200,000 - 300,000 US$. The disadvantages of OPW wells are more expensive in the mud and cement section when using a 9-1/2" hole. But, OPW drilling time is more efficient in terms of the duration, up to 2-3 days. Based on the integrity of the OPW wells, from 15 OPW wells that have been completed, only 2 have SCP.