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NPCC wins Umm Shaif work
UAE THE UAE’s National Petroleum Construction well-head towers with associated new pipelines.
Co. (NPCC) continued its successful start to the Work is expected to be completed in 2025.
year with the award from Abu Dhabi National The award marked 60 years of UAE crude
Oil Co. (ADNOC) of a contract to maintain exports, with the first flows having come from
capacity at the offshore Umm Shaif oilfield. Umm Shaif.
ADNOC said that the $946mn engineering, ADNOC is expected to follow-up on the con-
procurement and construction (EPC) contract tract with the award of a contract for LTDP-2,
would maintain oil flows from Umm Shaif at the which aims to increase capacity at the field to
current level of 275,000 barrels per day (bpd), 360,000 bpd.
and ‘supporting’ the company’s push to increase Umm Shaif is part of a wider concession
the Emirate’s capacity to 5mn bpd by 2030, with alongside the Nasr assets, in which ADNOC
ADNOC Offshore working to increase its con- holds its customary stake of 60% with French
tribution to the national total to 2mn bpd. firm TotalEnergies (20%), Italy’s Eni and
It said that the long-term development plan – PetroChina (each 10%) having minority
phase 1 (LTDP-1) EPC deal, which was awarded shareholdings.
by ADNOC Offshore, covers engineering, pro- Following the concession’s launch in 2018,
curement, fabrication, installation and com- ADNOC implemented an integrated gas strat-
missioning activities output levels, “increase egy which set a target of raising gas output at
efficiencies and enhance the field’s long-term Umm Shaif by around 5.2bn cubic metres per
potential”. Previous estimates suggested this year and major engineering work was awarded
would extend the field’s peak production from a year later.
2024 to 2028. In May 2019, US firm McDermott Inter-
The contract is comprised of two packages. national won a deal for front-end engineering
The first includes the modification and extension design (FEED) work for the first phase of the
of existing facilities and the installation of new Umm Shaif Gas Cap Condensate Development
subsea cables and pipelines for debottlenecking. Project, which is due to be completed later this
The second includes the design of three lean year.
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