By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 27 -- Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. (ADMA-OPCO) has let a contract to Technip of Paris and National Petroleum Construction Co. of Abu Dhabi for work that will raise production capacity of giant offshore Zakum oil field.
Under the engineering, procurement, and construction contract, the firms will install gas processing and compression facilities on a new gas compression platform bridge-linked to the existing lower Zakum complex. The new platform will have two gas turbine-driven centrifugal compression trains, a triethylene glycol dehydration unit, an air cooling unit, and a vapor recovery system.
The facilities are to be operational in January 2010. No production increment has been disclosed.
Zakum field, discovered in 1963, has been producing since 1967.
