Project Profile
Value: US$1,233 million
Location: Persian Gulf, Iraq
Capacity: 1.8 million barrels per day
Length: 247km
Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) is a 247km-long pipeline master planned by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil (MoO). The new pipeline will increase the country\'s Basra crude oil export capacity. It will be located in the Persian Gulf of Iraq. The ICOEEP was conceptualised in 2007 when the Iraqi Ministry of Oil decided to increase Iraq\'s export capacity of the existing offshore facilities from 1.8 million metric barrels per day (MMBPD) to 4.5MMBPD within five years.
Construction of the first phase of the project began in February 2011. It was completed and the first oil cargo was loaded onto the tanker Maersk Hirado in April 2012. The offshore works will be carried out in the third and fourth quarters of 2013. Two single-point mooring systems (SPMs) will be installed by the end of 2012. The project is being developed in three phases. The US$733m first phase included installation and commissioning of two 48in diameter pipelines (around 8km onshore and 43km offshore), an onshore facility at Fao terminal, 120km offshore terminal, SCADA systems and two SPMs. The crude tankers will be connected to the SPM buoys for offtaking the oil. The US$500m phase two will include fabrication and installation of a central metering and manifold platform (CMMP), located near the existing pipelines of the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT). Phase 2, which was completed in 2014, added two more SPMs and a new central manifold and meeting platform thus adding the same amount again.
Foster Wheeler was awarded the project management consultancy contract for the ICOEEP by South Oil Company (SOC). Leighton Offshore Oil & Gas was awarded the construction contract for the first and third phases of the project. BEKK Solutions supported Leighton Offshore for the subsea installation works under the first phase of the project. Van Oord is the dredging contractor. Saipem was awarded the phase two engineering, procurement, installation and construction contract worth US$1.5bn in October 2011. Petrofac was awarded a US$100m contract in August 2012 to provide offshore operations and maintenance services for the project for a 12-month period.
Operator:
South Oil Company: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Consortium for post lay burial of a fibre optic cable:
Reef Subsea Dredging and Excavation
Leighton Holdings Limited
Foster Wheeler: Project management consultancy contract
Leighton Holdings Limited: Construction contract
Saipem: EPCI contract
Petrofac: O&M contract (extended in 2016)
Subcontractors:
BEKK Solutions: Supported Leighton Offshore for the subsea installation works
Smit Lamnalco: Support Petrofac with single point mooring operations
Van Oord: Dredging contract