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Kuwait and Saudi agree

to develop Dorra gas field

KUWAIT/SAUDI THE governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia McDermott previously carried out pipeline and
this week agreed a deal for the belated develop- commissioning work for the partners’ Khafji
ment of the offshore Dorra gas field in the shared Joint Operations (KJO) entity. Previous efforts
Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ). to develop Dorra had been designed to yield 600
State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) mmcf (17 mcm) per day of gas.
announced that an agreement had been signed In January, KGOC and Saudi Arabian Chev-
by the country’s energy minister, Dr. Moham- ron (SAC), Aramco’s representative in the Wafra
mad Al Fares, and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Joint Operations (WJO) area, signed a memo-
Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, during a visit by randum of understanding (MoU) for the export
the latter to Kuwait. of gas from the onshore field, which has an oil
According to KPC, subsidiary Kuwait Gulf production capacity of around 250,000 bpd.
Oil Co. (KGOC) and Saudi Aramco affiliate Ara- KGOC’s deputy CEO Muhammad Salem
mco Gulf Oil Co. (AGOC) will leverage modern Al-Haimer told the state-owned Kuwait News
technologies to increase gas production from Agency (KUNA) that gas flows are expected to
the asset to 1bn cubic feet (28mn cubic metres) begin at 12 mmcf (340,000 cubic metres) per
per day alongside 84,000 barrels per day (bpd) day of gas, rising over the first half of the year to
of condensate. 40-50 mmcf (1.13-1.4 mcm) per day and reach-
Kuwaiti Arabic-language newspaper ing 80-100 mmcf (2.27-2.8 mcm) per day within
Al-Anba quoted a source as saying that the four years.
development would cost around $7bn with the The gas will be supplied to KOC for use in the
costs to be split equally. company’s gas networks. Meanwhile, operations
Work on the field, which holds 280-310bn began in August on the first pipeline from the
cubic metres of gas and around 300mn barrels PNZ’s al-Khafji field, with 24 mmcf (680,000
of oil, has been stalled since 2013. cubic metres) of gas piped to the company’s net-
As with the development of the PNZ’s works in Kuwait.
oil assets – Al-Khafji (offshore) and Wafra The company reported that operating the
(onshore) – gas output will be divided evenly conduit would “boost optimum use of the petro-
between KGOC and AGOC. leum resources” in the PNZ while meeting “local
The offshore portion of the zone also includes needs for gas, particularly at peak consumption
the minor Hout oilfield, where US services firm times”.™

DORRA

Source: Wood Mackenzie

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