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Abu Dhabi hold-ups $1 expense brand-new oil, gas growth

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Abu Dhabi has actually postponed an estimated $1 billion oil and also gas advancement job in an additional indicator of the strain Arab Gulf oil producers are under because of reduced oil costs, resources near to the task said Monday.

Leading engineering, procurement, and also construction professionals had been lining up to submit technical bids July 26 for new gas facilities at the Al-Dabbiya oil and gas field, yet the due date has been pushed back while further appraisal activity was accomplished, properly putting the task on hold.

Depending on shallow seaside waters, Al-Dabbiya is one of three oil areas in the North East Bab area being created by Abu Dhabi Business for Onshore Oil Procedures or ADCO. The firm hopes to boost lasting production to 230,000 b/d over the following few years from 100,000 b/d currently.

Maire Tecnimont signed a $2.254 billion contract with ADCO to create phase three of the area's surface centers including gathering networks, and processing centers and also pipes housed on a man-made island. Total manufacturing at the field was to be increased to 145,000 b/d by 2018 from 72,000 b/d currently.

ADCO planned to increase gas production at the field to 220 MMcf/d from non-associated gas reservoirs at Al-Dabbiya. This system has actually currently been positioned on hold, professionals say, without brand-new target date for the bids.

Chelating Agent for state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., the biggest shareholder in ADCO, denied the project was on hold. He decreased to comment on the hold-ups.

"I can validate that the Al-Dabbiya gas project is out hold. There is ongoing subsurface assessment activity, which belongs to the job's ongoing advancement," the representative claimed.

The delay was checked out with frustration by professionals in the UAE. as it is among just a couple of major projects tendered this year.

It will certainly likewise have an influence on ADNOC's total plans to improve Abu Dhabi's oil manufacturing by delaying the schedule of gas from a brand-new residential resource for shot right into the emirate's mature oil fields to assist keep reservoir stress and result.

Moreover, the Dabbiya gas development hold-up is just the current in a series of obstacles for Abu Dhabi oil and gas growths.

At the end of 2015, ADCO said it was mosting likely to edition a construction tender for the advancement of the Bab oil area, one of its biggest onshore oil fields, narrowing the range of the plan.

The original tender covered the construction of surface area centers for enhancing manufacturing to 450,000 b/d from around 300,000 b/d, but this was canceled in November, making it unlikely that the planned start-up day of 2018 will certainly be satisfied. The advancement has actually also been halted at the smaller Qusahwira oil field growth, which intended to raise production to 55,000 b/d from 30,000 b/d.

ADNOC concluded negotiations with prospective new international partners for ADCO late in 2015 as it seeks to boost output to 1.8 million b/d by 2018 from 1.6 million b/d in 2014. The new partners are France's Total with 10%, Japan's Inpex with 5%, and also South Korea's GS Energy with 3%. ADNOC retains an 82% risk in the giving in.

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