Egyptian gas plant due upgrade

Feb. 23, 2005
Badr Petroleum Co. (Bapetco), jointly owned by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. and Shell Egypt NV, let contract to KBR Production Services, UK, for engineering and support services for three projects related to the Obaiyed gas plant in Egypt.

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 23 -- Badr Petroleum Co. (Bapetco), jointly owned by Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. and Shell Egypt NV, let contract to KBR Production Services, UK, for engineering and support services for three projects related to the Obaiyed gas plant in Egypt.

Under the multimillion-pound, 2-year contract, Qasr gas field this year will be tied in to the Obaiyed plant, which will be upgraded to boost capacity to 420 MMscfd of sales gas. KBR also will implement a precompression scheme to sustain Obaiyed production.

OGJ's latest Worldwide Gas Processing survey reported gas capacity of the plant at 300 MMscfd (OGJ, June 28, 2004, p. 46; survey data on OGJ Online).