Project Profile
Value: US$18,000 million
Location: 20 km southwest of Basra, southeast Iraq
Potential reserves: 1,200,00 million bbl
Production target: 850,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd)
Start-up Year: -
Eni aims to boost Zubair production from 195,000 b/d to a plateau of 1.2 million b/d in seven years, working with partners Occidental Petroleum, Kogas and South Oil Co. The EPC project consists of the design, supply and commissioning of a 18-inch carbon steel gas pipeline to carry up to 100 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) of gas from a depot at the Zubair field near Basra to the Fao depot. The scheme includes pressure and temperature gauges and tie-in works at the Zubair-1 and Fao depots along with a 10-metre wide service road, running along the pipeline route.
Operator:
Missan Oil Company (state-run): 25% interest
Consortium:
Eni: 32.81% interest
Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy): 23.44% interest
KOGAS (Korea Gas Corporation): 18.75% interest
South Oil Company (SOC)
Egyptian General Petroleum Company (EGPC)
Contractors:
Alstom (GE): contract with Eni Iraq B.V. to build the 740 MW1 Zubair gas-fired power plant
Baker Hughes: Drill 60 wells
Daewoo Engineering & Construction: engineering, procurement and construction work for a gas separation facility
Consortium for pipeline contract:
SICIM
Drake & Scull
Expro: Production testing
Halliburton: Integrated Energy Services - Wire-line logging, perforating, acidising, and well testing
Iraq Drilling Company : Drill 23 wells
Saipem: FEED contract
Samsung Engineering Co.: Engineering, procurement, construction and pre-commissioning on a lump-sum turnkey basis to build a gas and oil separation plant
Techint Engineering & Construction: Build housing for workers
Weatherford: Build crude production units
ERGIL: Provision of storage tanks and StorageTech™ tank equipment. (April, 2017)
Weir Oil & Gas Dubai: Global maintenance services for gas compressor units (November, 2017)
Subcontractors:
Habtoor Leighton Group: Civil works awarded by Weatherford
Drake & Scull International PJSC: EPC contract (July, 2016)
- awarded a water-injection installation contract for the installation of flow lines, trunk lines, manifolds, and wellhead hookup work to enhance oil recovery.
- to oversee construction of a natural gas pipeline to a power plant