Awarded Orders

The project scope consists of detailed design, procurement, supply, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of the following:

1- A new BS-171 facility and associated access roads in West Kuwait.
2- Interconnecting pipelines between BS-171 and the feeder GCs (GC-17, 27, 28 and GC-16 (New) and also between BS-171 and Tie-in Points TP1/TP2.
3- Installation of new equipment and tie-ins at GC-17/27/28 and also GC-16 (New).
4- A new Intermediate Slug Catcher (ISC) facility and associated access roads in South East Kuwait.

The facilities shall be built with processing and exporting facilities for a maximum of 234 MMSCFD of dry and conditioned export gas and 69,000 Act BPD of treated condensate to Mina Al Ahmadi Acid Gas Removal Plant (AGRP).
KOC aims to ensure that 500 MBOPD crude production level and nominal 250 MMSCFD gas export from West Kuwait facilities is sustainable while keeping flaring below 1% per annum.

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Located in the Greater Ekofisk Area in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the Eldfisk field commenced production in 1979 and currently produces from 30 wells.

ConocoPhillips expects that Eldfisk II will increase the recovery rate from the Eldfisk field from 22% to 28.5%.

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The removal of fuel, which accounted for 99 per cent of the radioactive hazard on site, was completed in 2006. Since then the focus has been on further hazard reduction and preparation of the site for its care and maintenance phase.

Accelerated decommissioning

Bradwell is one of two Magnox sites, alongside Trawsfynydd, which is following an accelerated decommissioning programme. It is due to become the first Magnox site to reach its care and maintenance phase in 2015. The approach, which will see care and maintenance achieved 12 years earlier than planned, is designed to gather experience that will help to safely reduce the cost of decommissioning the other Magnox sites – a process known as lead and learn.

Information courtesy of www.magnoxsites.co.uk

It is divided into 9 fault-bounded segments, which have a common free water level and a maximum oil column of some 600m. A gas cap is present in the structurally elevated Ridge segments.
The reservoir is made up of fractured sandstones of Devonian to Carboniferous age with current interpretations suggesting a total volume of oil in place of excess of 410 million metric tonnes of 22 – 23 API oil.
However, there is significant uncertainty both in terms of reserves and the ability to commercially produce the highly fractured reservoir.

The field comprises an extensively layered and fractured sandstone reservoir with significant open fractures and variable matrix quality.

Field Development

Development of the Clair reservoir will be a ‘phased development’. The first phase – ‘Clair Phase 1 Development’ – will target the Core, Graben and Horst segments of the southern area of the reservoir. This first development phase is laterally extensive and relatively shallow, requiring high step-out extended reach wells for maximum drainage from single well access points.
Phase 1 of the Clair development has recoverable reserves of around 250 million barrels of oil. Plateau production is expected to be around 60 thousand barrels of oil a day and 20 million cubic feet of gas per day. Further development phases will be dependent on the performance and success of the Phase 1 Development.

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In 2009, BG Group also took over operatorship of the Lomond field, and increased its equity stake to 83.33%. Lomond is situated in the central North Sea and first production began in 1993. An average production rate of 74mmscfd and 2 517 bopd was achieved in 2009. Gas is exported via the CATS pipeline. Produced liquids go via Forties to Kinneil.

Information courtesy of www.bg-group.com

The Andrew reservoir lies at a depth of some 2,430 metres below sea level and is contained within the Palaeocene. In addition there is an underlying lower Cretaceous gas reservoir, which has not been fully appraised. Twelve horizontal production wells and one gas re-injection well were originally drilled to tap the reservoir.

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