Oilfield expansion in Oman

The website of state-run Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has invited bids for the engineering and procurement contract (EPC) to expand the Al Noor and Sakhiya oilfields in the south of the country.

PDO accounts for more than 90 percent of Oman's crude oil production and nearly all of its natural gas supply. The Company is owned by the Government of Oman (which has a 60 percent interest), Royal Dutch Shell (which has a 34 percent interest), Total (which has a four percent interest) and Partex (which has a two percent interest).

It pumped 633,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in 2008.

Contractors

Contractors will supply and install an additional new gas dehydration train along with gas injection compression facilities and associated injector wells, associated piping and utilities at the existing Al Noor production station, the website said, stated Arabian Business.

At Sakhiya, successful bidders will install a high-pressure mini flood project that will involve injecting very toxic natural gas into the oil field to boost output, PDO said.

The bids for the project will close on 9 February.

Al Noor is one of PDO's biggest oilfields and started production in 2000.

Oman has spent heavily on new technology to enhance oil output from its old, depleted fields. It reached its target in 2009 to produce 807,000 bpd, up from 757,000 in 2008.

 

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