Admaopco

COMPANY PROFILE

2015

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company

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Celebrating first oil production Editorial: Rosie DeWinter

With almost five decades of experience under its belt, ADMA-OPCO has proved its position in an increasingly competitive industry with a successful 2014 which saw first oil production from its Umm Lulu Field located in the Arabian Gulf‌ A major producer of oil and gas from the offshore areas of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, ADMA-OPCO prides its reputation in being an established and pioneering petroleum organisation in the region. And with over 45 years of experience within oil and gas production, 2014 was a very busy and exciting year indeed.

With its mission to develop oil and gas production to ensure it maximizes sustainability towards 70% recovery,

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ADMA-OPCO uses state-of-theart technology whilst maintaining responsibility, efficiency, the highest HSE, operational integrity and cost effectiveness standards.

Located in the gulf of Abu Dhabi, the Umm Shaif and Zakum fields have long been known to global oil companies for the existence of vast amounts of oil and have, in the last few decades, become both major and renowned oil and gas producers.

CELEBRATING FIRST OIL PRODUCTION At the start of October last year, ADMA-OPCO began first oil production from the Umm Lulu Field, located in the Arabian Gulf 30km north-west of Abu Dhabi, using existing facilities of the nearby Umm Al-Dalkh Oil Field.

Developed by ADMA-OPCO, the Umm Lulu field is a joint venture of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc,

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company 60%), BP (14.67%), Total (13.33%) and the Japan Oil Development Company (Jodco, 12%). The field is being developed as part of ADNOC’s strategic initiative to achieve 1.75 million barrels of offshore crude oil production a day by 2017, which incidentally is part of a grander scheme to increase Abu Dhabi’s total crude oil production to an exponential 3.5 million barrels a day.

The first well from the Umm Lulu field flowed at 5000 BOPD, joining the offshore production system and highlighted a significant step in achieving Abu Dhabi Oil production goals.

ADMA-OPCO plans to add 270,000 barrels per day capacity through the development of three new fields offshore with the Umm Lulu Field contributing a total of 105,000 barrels per day to this goal.

Nasr and Satah Al Razboot (SARB), two other offshore fields operated by

ADMA-OPCO, are being developed along with Umm Lulu, as part of this plan. It is planning to increase its daily crude oil production capacity from the current 600,000 barrels to approximately one million barrels by 2020.

MAJOR CONTRACTING In November last year, ADMA-OPCO signed four important contracts worth an estimated US$3.5 billion for the two offshore fields, helping to boost the output from its Nasr field offshore Abu Dhabi. The four contracts were dealt to NPCC, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Technip.

The Umm Lulu field is being developed in two phases, with the first phase including the construction of seven wellhead towers, the laying of 110 km of infield pipelines, a 32-km excess gas pipeline and a 70-km oil export line. By the end of 2015 it will achieve 22,000 barrels per day and on

its completion in 2018, up to 105,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

Totalling $3 billion, three contracts went to National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC), Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), and Technip, who own a 35% share, for the second phase of the project, known as the Nasr full field development project.

With Technip responsible for the engineering aspect of the development, valued at $206 million, NPCC will carry out the fabrication and installation of processing facilities at the site with a value of $792 million.

A fourth contract worth an estimated $494 million went to NPCC for work at the Umm Shaif super complex.

The Umm Shaif project will include the transfer of an additional 200 MMscfd of gas from Umm Shaif to Habshan to ensure the available gas streams are fully utilised to help increase onshore gas supply. The

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additional gas supply by the middle of 2016 will then be made available by production from new Khuff wells and debottlenecking.

Following the initial phase, Phase II of the development involves the installation of six new wellhead towers and the construction of a super complex. This will include six bridgelinked platforms, with a gas treatment platform, a separation platform, accommodation platform and power supply through subsea cables from facilities at Das Island and the construction of a power distribution platform at Umm Shaif.

The six platforms, associated jackets, flares and bridges will weigh more than 66,000 tons with the platforms installed using the float-over method which means a major portion of hook-up and pre-commissioning work needs to be completed onshore before it is loaded out into the sea.

This development phase will also include 90km of infield subsea pipelines, 125km of main oil lines and 100km of fibre-optic cables.

The production facilities for the

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development were fabricated in Sohar, Oman and were successfully transported to the Umm Lulu Field in early 2014 for installation.

A noteworthy development, the initial phase of this development marks a milestone for ADMA-OPCO with the oil to be processed by another operator. The fluid output of the field will be sent via an export pipeline to the Zirku Island for processing and Umm Lulu will be tied into ADMAOPCO’s Satah Al Razboot (SARB) offshore oil field for processing the output at the Zirku Island facilities.

COMPLETION DATE On its completion in 2018, the Full Field Development will include six new wellhead towers to host the 78 new wells, sub-sea pipelines carrying oil, water and gas, an offshore super-complex consisting of multiple processing platforms and central control by data transfer through Fibre Optic cables relating to the latest smart fields technology.

Awarded on Lump Sum basis under two separate contracts for Phase I

to NPCC, and Phase II to the Joint Venture of both NPCC and Technip.

These are currently under various phases of design and construction with plans to be installed progressively from 2015 into early 2018.

“These key projects come under the guidance of Abu Dhabi Government and the support of the SPC and the Shareholders,” said Ali Rashid Al-Jarwan, CEO of ADMA-OPCO in a statement, emphasising that the entire project is in line with ADNOC’s plans to ensure sustained oil production, while maintaining highest HSE standards.

“We are proud of our strategic and long standing partnership with NPCC, Hyundai and Technip and hope that the project would be completed as per the set schedule and quality standards.

“As part of our commitment to building the future of Abu Dhabi and UAE nationals we are investing in the advancement of the future oil and gas leadership by implementing a comprehensive, well-structured career development programme for young UAE nationals as part of the EPC

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contracts for the new oil fields where the selected candidates will be assigned to the EPC contactors’ premises and participate within the projects’ task force,” Mr Al-Jarwan stated.

EOR AGREEMENT In October last year, ADMA-OPCO cemented its longstanding relationship with BP, signing an agreement to develop new and innovative technology for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

EOR refers to the techniques used for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field. Methods for enhanced oil recovery include hydraulic fracturing, steam flood and water flood injection. Using these methods means that between 30-60% of the reservoir’s original oil can be extracted compared to just 20-40% when using more secondary recovery methods.

This agreement will see BP support

ADMA-OPCO in carrying out both laboratory and field tests to evaluate Carbonate Ionic Design EOR potential in the existing company fields.

In a statement, Mr Al-Jarwan praised the continued collaboration and deeplyrooted partnership between ADMAOPCO and BP: “We are pleased to partner with our Shareholder, BP, in this important programme. EOR technologies will play a key role to meet the energy demand in Abu Dhabi in the years to come and we, at ADMA-OPCO, have an aspiration to reach an ultimate recovery factor of 70% for our fields.”

The Carbonate Ionic Design EOR study technology is similar to BP’s innovative LoSal® reduced salinity waterflooding technology. In total, more than 45 core-flood tests were performed in validating the LoSal EOR effect, before field trials began in Alaska.

The technology has now been

deployed on the Clair Ridge project in the North Sea. BP was awarded the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference Distinguished Achievement Award for the Clair Ridge LoSal EOR project, helping to recognise the company’s specialist EOR technologies.

Vice President for EOR Technology, John Peak said: “This was a valuable opportunity to deepen ADMAOPCO’s understanding of BP’s EOR technologies, and to demonstrate close collaboration between BP’s Upstream and Downstream segments. Projects like the Carbonate Ionic Design EOR help demonstrate BP’s technology, capability, and the value we can provide to our partners.”

With such a busy and successful year for ADMA-OPCO, Total World Energy looks forward to following the progress of both oil fields and upcoming developments in the future

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Our mission is to provide quality services through technical expertise and highly skilled technicians and to supply high technology products to suit our clients’ needs.

At the heart of the energy industry in Abu Dhabi, PME Group has five distinct subsidiaries, each with their own industry-specific expertise, catering to worldwide organisations.

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