Project Profile
Value: US$1,500 million
Location: Offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE
Start-up Year: 2013
Peak Production: 50,000 b/d from early production, rising to an eventual 230,000 to 250,000 b/d (from both fields)
ADNOC is reshaping its offshore concessions after having run them under the umbrella of Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. (ADMA-OPCO) for 65 years. The new 40-year licence will see ADNOC take a 60% stake in each of the five fields covered by ADNOC Offshore. These will be split into three concessions - one for the Umm Shaif and Nasr fields; one for the Satah al-Razboot (SARB) and Umm al-Lulu fields and one for Lower Zakum.
ADNOC Offshore is seeking to increase production capacity at Nasr and Umm al-Lulu as part of its efforts to raise output from its five fields from 600,000 bpd to 1 mbpd by 2020.
CEPSA acquired a 20% stake in SARB and Umm al-Lulu for a US$1.5 billion fee.
The Umm Lulu Phase II field development includes six to eight platforms plus another four wellhead platforms elsewhere in the field, production facilities, living quarters, infield subsea pipelines and the export pipeline to Zirku Island. The workscope includes 70,000 tonnes of fabrication, 300 kilometres of pipelines and 150 kilometres of cables. The project will tie into ADMA-OPCO's SARB project for further processing at the Zirku Island facilities. The early production facility will have a capacity of 22,000 b/d of oil. It ultimately wants to produce 100,000 b/d from Umm al-Lulu. Surface production facilities: gas-oil separators, slug catchers, a gathering network and pumps.The Umm Lulu and Nasr fields are being developed together in the early production phase but full development of the two is being carried out separately. Official crude production targets for the two fields have varied over the years, but the latest projections (2011) are for 50,000 b/d from early production, rising to an eventual 230,000 to 250,000 b/d. The oil produced from the Nasr Oil Field in the first development phase is transported via an existing subsea pipeline to Das Island, and eventually supplied to customers in Japan and other Asian countries as Das Crude.
Operators:
ADNOC: 50% (Operator)
PetroChina: 10% interest
ENI: 10% interest
Total: 20% interest
CEPSA: 20% interest
Contractors:
AMEC: PMC and EPC services for execute phase 1&2
Consortium for EPC of the Umm Lulu field:
National Petroleum Construction Company
Technip
Fluor: FEED for permanent facilities, phase 2
Larsen & Toubro: EPC for early production
Lamprell: Drilling contractor
Mott MacDonald: Feasibility study
National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC): Construction and installation of six new well-head towers. NPCC also won a fourth contract for EPC work to boost gas supply from the offshore Umm Shaif Super Complex for approximately US$494 million (November 2014).
Stone & Webster: PMC overseeing phase 2
Tebodin Middle East Ltd.: FEED for Phase 1
Technip: FEED for early production and in November 2014, contract worth US$206 million to provide project management and consulting (PMC) services for the development
WorleyParsons: PMC overseeing phase 1
Hyundai Heavy Industries: US$1.9 billion order from Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company for the second package of the Nasr full field development project (Package 2)
Sub-contractors:
KBR: contract to provide engineering design and support services for the entire Al-Nasr Package 2 scope with the services provided by KBR’s office in Singapore and supported by other KBR offices
ABB: Orders from Hyundai Heavy Industries for electrical and telecommunication systems. The order is worth around US$100 million, with about half booked in the last quarter of 2014, almost US$27 million in the first quarter of this year and US$20 million in the second quarter. It enables Hyundai Heavy Industries to fulfil its obligations to Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. under the contract for EPC Work of Nasr Full Field Development Project (Package 2). The solution provided consists of power management, power-from-shore and telecom systems which are interconnected to ensure the highest levels of efficiency, reliability and safety. ABB will supply 28 bays of compact 132 kV GIS for one onshore and two offshore platform installations as well as medium voltage products including 33 kV gas-insulated switchgear and 11 kV and 6.6 kV air-insulated switchgear. ABB pioneered high-voltage GIS in the mid-1960s and has a global installed base of more than 23,000 bays. ABB will also provide a complete and fully integrated telecommunication system to the Al Nasr super complex for internal and external communication and field security. Key products are computer networks, electronic personnel tracking, a camera system, radar, public address and general alarm systems, access control, a telephone system, radios and a transmission system between platforms. The project will be executed by ABB’s engineering services and project management team in Norway, with equipment manufactured by ABB in the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany and Norway. Delivery is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016. ABB has supported the Al Nasr Full Field Development Project from the concept stage, through front-end engineering and design and now the construction phase. The scope of supply includes design, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning.
Sandvik Materials Technology: Contract for offshore control lines for the oil and gas industry in the Middle East. The contract is with a service company in Abu Dhabi and covers a major package for chemical injection applications for use on the Umm Lulu and Al Nasr oil fields in the UAE.
Nexans: Contract by Hyundai Heavy Industries to supply high-voltage power cables and infield cables for the Nasr oil field in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The contract is worth approximately US$100 million or €90 million.
Verotec: Supplied Yokogawa with several hundred modified intelligent fan trays for the new Umm Lulu development, 30 km (18.6 mi) offshore Abu Dhabi. In addition, Verotec undertook to provide fasttrack delivery of units modified to withstand the harsh operating conditions, including summer temperatures regularly above 40°C (104°F).