Project Profile
Value: US$900 million
Location: Southern Iraq, Maysan Province
Start-up Year: August 2016
The project gathers, processes and transmits associated gas which had been flared at southern Iraqi fields because of a lack of infrastructure. With slated capacity at 450 MMcf/d, the plant should produce 46,600 b/d NGLs and 338 MMcf/d dry sweet natural gas. It was estimated that the Misan Gas Project would produce in excess of 2.6 trillion cubic feet of dry, sweet natural gas and over 350 million barrels of recoverable natural gas liquids over its lifetime. Upon launch in 2016, the facility received associated gas for treatment from the Jabal Fauqi and Buzurgan fields.
In August 2016, the Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced launch at the Maysan treatment plant, but it was unclear whether Gulfsands Petroleum had retained its integral role in the development. In 2009, Gulfsands Petroleum conceded the Maysan gas capture had stalled despite a detailed proposal formulated by external consultants and warned progress would likely be muted until 2010. No progress had been made by January 2011, and Maysan has been little mentioned by the firm since.
Phase 1:
Gas gathering system and NGL processing train for 225 mmcfd of natural gas and transmission pipelines for both the processed natural gas and the extracted natural gas liquids. This is likely to take three years.
Phase 2:
Will consist of 225 mmcfd of gas inlet together with the necessary additional gas gathering system. This will take a further two years.
Operator:
Gulfsands Petroleum: Operator with 100% interest (status unknown)
Contractors:
Bohai Drilling Engineering Company: Drilling contract
CB&I Lummus: Feasibility study
COSL: Drilling contract
Weatherford: Drilling contract