Uchenna Izundu
International Editor
LONDON, Nov. 15 -- Petrofac of London will carry out the engineering, procurement and construction work for Khalda Petroleum Co.'s (KPC) third gas-conditioning train at Salam on the Khalda Concession in Egypt.
The announcement means that by 2008, the capacity at the 510 MMcfd Khalda gas plant is set to grow by 100 MMcfd. Production of sales condensates at Khalda will rise to 52,000 b/d from 14,000 b/d, including access to processing capacity at Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Obaiyed plant that will increase to 210 MMcfd and 15,000 b/d before the end of 2008.
The lump-sum contract, valued at $200 million, involves project management, detailed design, procurement, construction, precommissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and initial operations.
KPC is a joint venture company of Apache Corp. and Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. (EGPC). An Apache spokesman told OGJ that the gas would come from its 2 tcf Qsar field in Egypt's Western Desert and its other Kahraman B-22 wildcat gas well, 18 miles north of Qasr in the Jurassic Lower Safa formation. "We will sell all of our gas into the Egyptian grid," he added.
Apache is awaiting approval from EGPC for its proposal on a fourth train, which would bring total processing capacity to 710 MMcfd of gas and 66,000 b/d by the end of 2008. Apache said it is also planning to install additional pipeline and production equipment to supply the new processing facilities as well as pipelines to deliver the increased sales volumes to the Egyptian pipeline grid in both the north and south of the country.
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