Project Profile
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is planning to build a new gathering centre, numbered 32, at the supergiant Burgan Field around 50 kilometres south-east of Kuwait City to separate sour crude and gas from the Minagish-Oolite reservoir from sweet streams produced elsewhere in the field and contribute to maintaining plateau production of around 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd)
The project covers a new gathering centre with capacity to process 400,000 bpd of liquids into 120,000 bpd of oil, 95.4 million cubic feet per day of gas and 280,000 bpd of effluent water through the use of high-pressure and low-pressure separation, and will include a three-phase separation capability.
The sour crude will be treated to export specifications and pumped to the South Tank Farm P-header or the Ahmadi Distribution Manifold with a further tie-in to the Ratawi-Burgan pipeline. The sour gas and condensate will be piped to the acid gas recovery plants at Mina al-Ahmadi on the coast and the sour water will be sent to a nearby effluent water disposal plant. The engineering, procurement and construction tender was issued in August 2016, with the original bid deadline of November 1 extended to December 20. The scope of works includes an intermediate slug catcher, 15 manifolds, 19 import pipelines and four export pipelines.
Work is ongoing at the Greater Burgan area – including the Magwa and Ahmadi fields as well as Burgan itself - to maintain production capacity, which accounts for more than half of KOC’s total output. New facilities are required to handle increasing quantities of sour crude and a water cut expected to increase to 70% by the end of the field’s life. The UK’s BP signed a new enhanced technical services agreement in early 2016 to assist with enhanced oil recovery at Burgan, which contains estimated reserves of around 70 billion barrels and is considered the world’s largest sandstone field – second overall in size only to Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar.
Operator:
Kuwait Oil Company: 100% interest
Contractors:
FEED: Amec Foster Wheeler
Petrofac: Awarded an EPC contract for the Burgan Field. Work will begin shortly and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2020. The scope of work for GC 32 includes Greenfield activities with tie-in works to existing brownfield infrastructure, and will have the capacity to produce around 120,000 barrels of oil per day together with associated water, gas and condensate. (March, 2017)