Project Profile
Value: US$3.5 billion
Location: Khuff Zone of the Qatari North Field, Qatar
Reserves: 900Tcf of recoverable reserves
Production: 2bcf/day
Start-up Year: July 2007
The Dolphin gas field is located in the Khuff Zone of the Qatari North Field, about 80km offshore Qatar. The field is one of the world\'s largest, with an estimated, and the project has resulted in the first natural gas network in the Gulf Cooperation Council area. The project\'s operator is Dolphin Energy Ltd, a development company set up in 1999 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi to implement the project. Dolphin Energy, and therefore the project, is 51% owned by Mubadala Development Company, which itself is owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. The other partners are Total and Occidental Petroleum, each with a 24.5% interest. The US$3.5bn project is expected to produce commercial quantities of natural gas for at least 25 years, for sale to utilities and energy companies in the UAE. The finance was raised through 25 national, Islamic and international financial institutions, as a combination of a conventional lending facility of US$2.45bn.
Contracts
The upstream Front End Engineering Design (Feed) contract was awarded to a partnership of Foster Wheeler of the US and France\'s Sofresid. The scope of work included Feed for the offshore production complexes, the two multiphase pipelines to transport the gas to shore, the onshore receiving facilities, separation, gas processing and export gas compression facilities. Work began in Paris in January 2002 and was completed in May 2003. In a separate contract, worth more than US$115m, Saipem laid the twin 36in sea lines that link the wells to Ras Laffan.
Operators:
Dolphin Energy consortium: Operator
Mubadala Development Company: 51% interest
Total: 24.5% interest
Occidental Petroleum: 24.5% interest
Contractors:
Partnership for FEED contract:
Foster Wheeler
Sofresid
Saipem: The twin 36in sea lines that link the wells to Ras Laffan
Siemens: Contract with Dolphin Energy, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, to extend for an additional 18 years the existing service agreement for aero-derivative gas turbine trains operating at the Dolphin gas project. Under terms of the new agreement, Siemens will provide service and maintenance for the nine industrial Trent 60 aero-derivative gas turbines with nine Dresser-Rand DATUM centrifugal compressors operating at Dolphin Energy’s gas compression and processing plant, located at Ras Laffan, Qatar. The contract will be managed locally through the Siemens Qatar team in Doha and at the main operational site at Ras Laffan Industrial city. (October 2015)