Project Profile
Location: Al-Anbar province, Iraq
Gas reserves: 94-159 bcm (3.3-5.6 tcf)
Plateau production: 400 mmcf (11 mcm) per day (estimated)
Licence award: 2010
Start-up year: September 2015, delayed
The Akkas (also called Salah Al Dine) gas field is situated in the far west of Iraq, within the Western Desert, in the Al-Anbar province, 30 kilometres south of Al Qaim city by the Syrian border. It comprises an oval anticline structure, with a northwest-southeast axial trend, bound to the north by the Anah Graben and to the east by the Abo Jear fault system. The structure is around 30 kilometres long and 12 kilometres wide. The Akkas field, discovered in 1992, has reserves of 5.6 trillion cubic feet of gas and six wells. The 20- year agreement calls for commercial production to start at 100 million cubic feet a day and reach a peak of 400 million cubic feet a day within six years.
Akkas, in western Anbar province, is the largest of three gas deposits for which Iraq awarded licenses in October 2011. The petroleum system of the Akkas Field is stratigraphically much lower than that in most of Iraq’s discovered fields, consisting of latest Ordovician and early Silurian clastic sediments. Along with Kazakhstan’s KazMunaiGas, KOGAS won the rights to develop the Akkas field during Iraq’s third energy bidding . But KazMunaiGas pulled out of the deal in May 2011, forcing KOGAS to double its share in the project.
Operators:
KOGAS: Operator with 100% interest (plans to sell 47% interest)
Contractors:
Daewoo Engineering & Construction: EPC contract
Lanco Group: Construction of the Akkaz gas power plant
Petrofac: a contract to modify the FEED study for the Nasiriya Gas Treatment Plant. (October, 2017)
Subcontractors:
SGS: Inspection contract of the gas plant