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KOC to issue water injection tenders
KUWAIT STATE-OWNED Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) is They noted that KOC leverages a combina-
expected to issue tenders for high-pressure water tion of seawater and water produced with oil
injection to increase oil production from north- output in reservoir injection from its collection
ern oilfields. centres “to ensure the best results are obtained”.
Local industry sources were quoted by the Adding that KOC’s daily water injection rates are
Kuwaiti Al-Anba Arabic language daily as saying calculated quarterly, the sources noted that the
that the tenders would relate to KOC’s assembly water requirements of planned fields are “con-
centres 29 and 30, which each have a capacity of stantly” being raised to support the company’s
100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 60mn strategic oil capacity target.
cubic feet (1.7mn cubic metres) per day of gas. So far, KOC has completed a project to inject
According to reports in October by KOC’s 500,000 bpd of water supplied from its assembly
parent firm Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) and centres and it is working on another of the same
the Ministry of Oil, such water injection facilities capacity in North Kuwait, which the sources said
will be central to the company’s plans to increase would comply with international standards for
Kuwait’s maximum sustainable capacity for water quality.
oil production from the current 2.6mn bpd to News of the water injection tenders comes
3.5mn bpd by 2025, and 4mn bpd a decade later. just a week after reports emerged of a planned
Meanwhile, KPC CEO Hashem Hashem tender for pipelines to support KOC’s fourth
highlighted work on gathering centres, the and fifth Jurassic Production Facilities, which
expansion of water-handling facilities as well as will have a total combined capacity of 100,000
upgrades to existing Jurassic production facil- bpd of light crude and 300 mmcf (8.5mcm) per
ities and the addition of new production units day of gas.
and wells, particularly from North Kuwait, as key Meanwhile, work is ongoing to expand drill-
to this growth. ing across the country as KOC seeks to raise the
The sources quoted by Al-Anba said that number of wells it drills each year to an average
raising water injection capabilities would serve of 700 as part of a $6.1bn capital expenditure on
to prolong the lifespan of the emirate’s reservoirs. exploration activities over the next five years.
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