Petronas and Japex move on Iraq Gharraf phase 1
The Malaysian national oil company, Petronas, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) and North Oil Company from Iraq, are moving one the first phase of the development of the Gharraf, or Garraf, oil and gas field in southern Iraq.
Gharraf is the fifth largest oil field in Iraq with estimated 1 billion barrels reserves, where the partners share working interest as following:
– Petronas from Malaysia 45%, is the operator
– Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) from Japan 30%
– Iraq’s state owned North Oil Company 25%.
Awarded in December 2009 as part of the second licensing round organized by the Iraq Government, Petronas signed a technical services contract (TSC) with a remuneration fee per barrel (RFB) of $1.49.
The principle of the technical services contract (TSC) is far different from the usual production sharing contracts (PSC).
In the production sharing contracts (PSC), the partners agree on the way to share capital expenditure, operations costs and the future revenues.
So the partners share costs, risks and profits in proportion of their stakes in the project.
Withtechnical services contract (TSC), all the costs and risks bear on the licensee to be covered by the remuneration fee per barrel only.
The licensor, the Iraq Government in this case, will take only the profits minus the remuneration fee per barrel, which is insignificant as below $2 per barrel compared with crude oil market price around $100 per barrel.
In this context, the interest for the licensee is to ramp up the production as fast as possible as only the quantity of barrels produced will give him a chance to get paid back.
That is where stand Petronas, Japex and North Oil with a Gharraf development scheme planned in two phases.
On Gharraf phase 1, Petronas is targeting to increase production from the 35,000 b/d in 2009 to 50,000 b/d at the end of 2012, 60,000 b/d in 2013 and 100,000 b/d in 2014.
On Gharraf phase 2, Petronas is are expecting to exceed 230,000 b/d by 2016/2017.
Petronas awarded oil processing plant to Weatherford
To support this development scheme, Petronas awarded in September 2011 the oil central processing facilities (CPF) to Weatherford International (Wheatherford) from USA for about $200 million.
Previously Weatherford had performed the front end engineering and design (FEED) of this oil central processing facilities (CPF) to include:
– Two crude oil production trains of 50,000 b/d each with degasing units
– Storage tanks
– Infrastructure
Weatherford is due to complete the oil central processing facilities (CPF) by the end of 2013.
Since June 2012, Petronas, Japex and South Oil are tendering the midstream package of the Gharraf development project with the Light Oil Transport System (LOTS).
This LOTS package is estimated to $100 million to connect the Badra field to Gharraf, the Gharraf field central processing facilities (CPF) to the Gharraf-Badra Tie-in Area (GBTA), then the GBTA to the Nassiriyah storage farm.
This LOTS package should be awarded soon.
Petronas call for bid on Gharraf Gas-To-Power package
Petronas, Japex and South Oil are now moving the next package, the Gharraf Gas-To-Power (GTP) project to be located in Dhiqar, Iraq, which includes:
– Gas treatment plant
– Power plant
– Transmission lines at the Gharraf field.
The purpose of the Gas-To-Power project is to eliminate flaring in collecting the associated gas from the oil field production and to monetize this natural gas by its conversion into electric power.
Petronas, Japex and South Oil estimate this package around $300 million.
The front end engineering and design (FEED) is completed.
From this front end engineering and design (FEED), the Gharraf Gas-To Power project covers:
– Modular-designed gas treatment units, including the gas turbines, to be added step by step along the associated gas production from the oil central processing facilities (CPF)
– Fractionation units for the extraction of the natural gas liquids (NGL) from the raw natural gas
– gas pipeline to supply the gas-fired power plant.
With the oil processing facilities to come on stream at the end of 2013, Petronas and its partners Japex and North Oil are planning the Gharraf Gas-To-Power project to follow closely and therefore to call for tender the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in October 2012.
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