TAQA, the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, UAE, has announced to increase capital expenditures from $1.9 billion in 2011 to $2.2 billion in 2012.

These investments will go to expend on going projects in Western Canada, North Sea, Netherlands, Morocco and Ghana. 

TAQA’s Oil & Gas operations are located in North America, UK and the Netherlands and comprise crude oil and natural gas exploration, production, processing, transmission and storage. 
In North America, TAQA has over two and a half million gross acres containing 465 mmboe of proven and probable reserves. TAQA’s average production in this region for 2010 was 88,582 boe/d. 
In the UK, TAQA produced an average of 37,329 boe/d in 2010 through four operated platforms and non-operated interests in the UK North Sea. TAQA is also the operator of the Brent Pipeline System.
In the Netherlands, TAQA is primarily a midstream operator with the PGI Alkmaar gas storage facility and various pipeline interests. Together with its partner, TAQA is planning on building a second gas storage facility near Alkmaar, the Netherlands: the Bergermeer Gas Storage. The facility is expected to be fully operational in 2013. TAQA also produced 8,716 boe/d in 2010 through onshore and offshore facilities.

TAQA was founded in 2005 with the objective of becoming a global leader in the energy sector. TAQA is 51% owned by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) which is a government authority.

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Grace & Co and Al Dahra have signed a joined venture to build and operate in Abu Dhabi, UAE,  a new plant to produce Catalysts and Additives

With this new facility, Grace & Co and Al Dahra are targeting to supply some of the 16 Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units  to come in the next five years in the Gulf.

This plant should be the first one of that kind in the region. With an estimated market to grow by $150 million for Catalysts and Additives products, Grace & Co and Al Dahra see here the great opportunity to make the Gulf self sufficient and to export in South Asia.

The completion is due in 2015.

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With more than $75 billion Capital Expenditure to be invested in drilling rigs in the next 5 years, the pipeline of business opportunities in drilling rigs has never been so loaded according to Upstream, the Norwegian Oil & Gas newspaper.

From their well documented analysis published in March about the drilling rigs, Upstream explains how this industry should break another historic record, the daily leasing rate reaching $800,000 per day as seen in the last Ocean Rig contract signed for West Africa heavy duty semi-submersible Eirik Raude.

The $75 billion Capital Expenditure calculation is based on a list of 155 drilling rigs to be designed and built from now to 2017 for 54 Offshore services companies, such as Mearsk, Noble, Seadrill, Transocean, etc… 

With an average cost of $483 million per drilling rigs, the main type of design is Jack-up (50%), then the Drilling ships (34%) and the Semi-submersible type (13%).

38% of these drilling rigs in progress are designed for deep water, exceeding 10,000 ft.

Regarding the shipyards where these drilling rigs should be executed, South Korea and Singapore are leading the game but some other countries are now emerging as reflected by numbers of units below:

• South Korea: 49
• Singapore: 45
• China: 33
• Brazil: 30
• UAE: 8
• India: 4

The number of drilling rigs to be made in Brazil may see some changes because the Brazilian Government request them to be home made, but there is uncertainty about the capability of the local shipyards to design and produce as many quantities in the given time frame given to Petrobras to catch up with 2020 oil production targets.

Therefore a number of these Brazilian planned units may be relocated around the World to get them done on time.  

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Abu Dhabi’s Zakum Development Company’s (ZADCO) mandate was to develop the Upper Zakum field on behalf of ADNOC and for the benefit of the shareholders: ADNOC 60%, ExxonMobil 28% through its local subsidiary ExxonMobil Abu Dhabi Offshore Petroleum Company Ltd. (EMAD), and Japan Oil Development Company Ltd. (Jodco) holding the remaining 12%. ExxonMobil, ADNOC and Jodco will jointly provide support to the operating company.

Upper Zakum, in UAE, is the largest part of a reservoir that is now classed as the second-largest field in the Gulf and the fourth-largest in the world.

The upgrading of Upper Zakum is a strategic investment for ADNOC to fulfil its long-held target to increase Abu Dhabi‘s production capacity from 2.8 million bpd to 3.5 million b/d and to maintain the emirate’s position as OPEC‘s fourth largest producer. Since 2009, ADNOC  subsidiaries have started to award contracts to raise capacity at existing developments, and to tap undeveloped fields.

The award of the first Upper Zakum project was originally due to be made at the end of last year, but was delayed because companies had to resubmit their technical bids to accommodate changing technical specifications.

ZADCO is working hard on the enormous expansion of drilling and production to achieve its goal to produce 750,000 b/d of crude oil by 2015, from the current 500,000 b/d.

The upgrade of Upper Zakum capacity will be developed in three phases. The first phase will boost production capacity by 100,000 b/d, and a further 150,000 b/d will be added in the second phase. A final phase will ensure that production can be maintained over a 25-year period

In order to achieve the huge ramp up, ZADCO is shifting from traditional offshore platform production to a network of artificial islands which are already being built. A greater production is anticipated with drilling reach will be extended from 10,000 feet to around 30,000 feet from the new islands.

According to ZADCO two pilot wells have already been successfully drilled.

Last August, one of the first UZ750 project landmarks emerged from the waves in the southern part of the Upper Zakum field. The appearance of sand above the high water level marked a milestone in the history of the company in the transition from wellhead platform tower based facilities and jack-up drilling rigs  to island based facilities and land rig based drilling.

ExxonMobil will provide his support by developing technologies that will maximize recovery from Upper Zakum reservoirs. The company plans to establish a technology center in Abu Dhabi that will supply technology in the areas of reservoir management, well management, and production operations. Additional support for training and personnel development will come from ExxonMobil’s Upstream Training and Technology Center in Houston, USA.

ExxonMobil has also agreed to help establish a research and development facility at the Petroleum Institute, the leading technical university in Abu Dhabi.

Among the bidders McDermott and Saipem, Technip in JV with National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) submitted the lowest offer at $800 million who is now in clarification process.

In the scheme of the projects based on four islands for production and drilling, one will be used for power generation to supply the other islands. This offshore electrical network, for transportation and distribution, will represent more that 10% of the project capital expenditure.

The completion is planned by the end of 2015.

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The Mubadala Development Company, through its branch Mubadala Oil& Gas and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) from Abu Dhabi, have announced the project to build the Emirates LNG Terminal in Fujairah, UAE.

This LNG Terminal would have a down loading and re-gasification capacity of 1.2 billion cf/d and a storage capacity of 12 billion cf gas.

It would be built in two phases, each having a capacity of 600 million standard cubic feet per day.

The first phase will include a floating storage and regasification terminal.  The completion is planned in 2014

The second phase would add an onshore import terminal to be built a year later.

The UAE have the seventh largest gas reserves in the World but are chronically in deficit of gas because of the increasing needs for utilities, gas injection and petrochemical industry.

In addition the UAE faces uncertainties regarding their gas supply from different sides. The expected production and costs to come from on going gas fields development projects as Shah gas, Dolphin pipeline does not deliver expected quantities because of commercial issues and the Strait of Hormuz may be closed at any time.

In this context, the choice of Fujairah is perfect to attract investors and traders.

Sinopec, Vitol Group, and the Dutch Royal Vopak NV are considering to use Fujairah also for oil storage. Actual evaluations are to add about 1 million cm storage capacity per company. 

The completion is targeted in 2014.

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IECEx addresses safety issues in the Ex field.

The IECEx, the IEC System for Certification for Standards relating to Equipment for Use in Explosive Atmospheres, and ESMA (Emirates Standardization and Metrology Authority), in conjunction with UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), have organized the 2012 IECEx International Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on last 20-21 March 2012.

The conference brought together more than 200 participants from the Ex industry, SDOs (standards development bodies) and CBs (Certification Bodies), as well as regulatory authorities from Arab, European, Asian and African countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Britain, Germany, Russia, Australia, USA, France, Japan, India, Pakistan, Cameroon, Canada, Nigeria and of course the UAE.

High-level experts were able to share their experience and detailed knowledge of all matters pertaining to the Ex field, such as plant design, principles and practical applications of area classification, installation and repair in compliance with IEC International Standards. They also answered questions and provided advice and valuable information to a captive and highly-motivated audience.

Safety is UAE’s top priority

The initial impetus of the conference came from ESMA. UAE authorities were looking at ways of ensuring the highest levels of safety for workers, installations and equipment in the oil and gas sector. In addition, ESMA expressed its intention to begin implementation of the UNECE‘s common regulatory framework, which lays out the key features of a regulatory system, and can be put to direct use by countries that either do not have regulations in this sector or are in the process of revising existing regulations.

While standards are already being applied extensively by local industry in the United Arab Emirates, ESMA is now developing mandatory technical regulation in the explosive environments sector. Mohammed Saleh Badri, ESMA Acting Director General, said that lessons learned at the Conference will contribute to shaping the new regulatory system. For him, the next step will be to promote awareness about the role and importance of standardization and certification bodies and their activities in the oil and gas sector so as to ensure industry’s compliance with international standards, protect facilities from hazards and prevent disasters and accidents.

Badri said the conference was in line with the UAE government’s guidelines and UAE Vision 2021 for making the country one of the world’s safest by 2021. It also coincides with the UAE strategy that aims to ensure security and public safety.

Key role of IECEx

In developing the regulation, ESMA will refer to international standards, most importantly those developed by IEC and used by business and regulatory authorities throughout the world. While standards are essential, they need to be properly applied. According to the Executive Secretary of IECEx, Chris Agius: “The mission of the IECEx system is to ensure that equipment conforms to the standards, that it is installed and repaired in conformity with industry best practice, and that all the personnel who work in these environments are competent.”

Further interest from Eastern Europe

The conference was also an important point of reference for other attending countries that are developing regulations in this sector. These included the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, which are developing joint technical regulations in this field, and were represented at the conference by NANIO CCVE, a Russian certification body.

Organizers, speakers and participants all agreed that the conference was a great success. For many who attended, it was a real eye-opener. Building on this, both IECEx and UNECE are considering the organization of similar events in other parts of the world. In addition, the two organizations will deliver a Joint Technical Paper at the 2012 PCIC Europe Conference, to be held in Prague next June.

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The Abu Dhabi Oil Refinery Company (Takreer) is now confident in the decision the come soon for the Ruwais refinery expansion in UAE.

This refinery would have a capacity of 400,000 b/d

Capital expenditure is estimated around $10 billion

Takreer will build the new refinery to operate alongside the existing 417,000-b/d facility.

The new facility should use UOP technologies for the production of clean, low sulfur distillate and gasoline.

The main contractors are the following:

• Axens
• Daewoo Engineering & Construction
• GS Engineering and Construction
• Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd
• SK Engineering & Construction
• Shaw Group

The refining units should have the following capacities:

• 59,800 b/d Unsaturated LPG treatment unit
• 37,800 b/d C4-cut purification system
• 127,000 b/d Residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC)
• 26,000 b/d Butane Isomerization unit
• 40,930 b/d Naphtha hydrotreater
• Delayed Coker
• Slurry Hydro-desulphurization Unit
• Carbon Black Unit
• Distillate Hydro Treating Unit
• Propane Dehydrogenation Unit
• Coke calcification Unit

This refinery should produce  propylene, unleaded gasoline, naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), aviation turbine fuel, kerosene, gas-oil & bunker fuel

The completion is expected in 2014

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Definition

Proven reserves is an industry term that means oil or gas that has been discovered and could be produced with today’s technology.

Comments

The world consumes about 89 million barrels of oil per day, or 32.5 billion barrels per year.

The industry describes a field as giant if it has more 500 million barrels of oil or BOE.

In 2011, the Top 10 countries by oil proven reserves in billion barrels:

 
- Saudi Arabia            267         which represent one-fifth of the world’s total.

 - Venezuela                211

 - Canada                      175

 - Iran                            137

 - Iraq                            115

 - Kuwait                      104

 - UAE                             98

 - Russia                        60

 - Libya                          46

 - Nigeria                      37

The term proven reserves is further subdivided into:

 - proved developed reserves

 - proved undeveloped reserves.

In addition to the proven reserves come the unproven reserves, which are broken down into:

  – Probable reserves

 - Possible reserves

that only have a 10% likelihood of being recoverable.

To facilitate calculations and comparisons, these reserve categories are totalled up by the measures 1P, 2P, and 3P, which are inclusive, so include the previous safer measures as:

 - 1P reserves = proven reserves (both proved developed reserves + proved undeveloped reserves)

 - 2P reserves = 1P (proven reserves) + probable reserves, hence proved AND probable.

 - 3P reserves = the sum of 2P (proven reserves + probable reserves) + possible reserves, all 3Ps proven AND probable AND possible.

Because of their definitions, the oil and gas reserves categories may grow or change category due to technological changes, economic changes, new discoveries in exploration and production, and even geological changes and the passage of time (decades) as settling occurs.

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Adma-Opco to spend $50 million to reduce carbon footprint.

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco)  is majority-owned by Abu Dhabi‘s state oil firm ADNOC with BP, Total, Inpex and Japan Oil Development Company as other share holders.

Adma-Opco is the operator of the Das Island offshore oil and gas hub.

In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the site, Adma-Opco is planning to install a flare gas recovery unit to capture the hydrocarbons gas emissions and prevent them from release in the atmosphere.

Adma-Opco estimated the capital expenditure to $50 million.

Tebodin from the Netherlands performed the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED)

Penspen from UK has been appointed as Project Manger Consultant (PMC)

Then the technical bids for the EPC contract were submitted by:

 - Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) from Greece

 - Technip from Abu Dhabi office

 - Adyard from Abu Dhabi.

The commercial bids should follow in June for an award on third quarter 2012.

Adma-Opco is planning the completion of the Das Island flare gas recovery in 2014.

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$350 million to acquire Dubai’s NPS Energy

21 May 2012 – Aker Solutions has agreed to acquire NPS Energy, which is part of oil field services company National Petroleum Services.

NPS Energy has a strong presence in the Middle East and North Africa, which combined hold approximately 60 per cent of the world’s proven oil and gas reserves.

After divesting non-oil and gas related business in 2010 and demerging from the EPC contractor Kvaerner in 2011, Aker Solutions takes a leap in the transformation into a leading and global oil field products, systems and services company.

Headquartered in Dubai and with a strong local presence in the Middle East and North Africa, NPS Energy represents a platform from which Aker Solutions will be able to provide its broad portfolio of technology and services to the oil and gas industry in the region.

NPS Energy currently employs approximately 900 people.

Aker Solutions: from subsea deep offshore technologies to Middle East onshore services

The company’s core offerings are well intervention services – including coil tubing, wire-line services, cementing, pressure pumping, well logging and testing – and onshore drilling services.

It also provides perforation equipment.

Aker Solutions‘ presence and activities in the Middle East have primarily focused on well intervention services in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

But the company has also executed numerous product and system contracts in the region, including drilling technologies, surface wellheads and process systems.

During the first quarter of 2012 alone, Aker Solutions has announced contracts in the Middle East and North Africa regions totalling almost $100 million.

This includes a contract for drilling equipment to be used in the Middle East as well as awards for surface wellhead equipment to Bahrain and Egypt.

With the added local presence and the NPS management’s deeper understanding of the market in the region, Aker Solutions expects to perform project pursuit with a much greater hit rate.

In parallel, NPS Energy will utilize Aker Solutions‘ product and service lines to spearhead market entry.

NPS has a strong position within well intervention services in the Middle East and North Africa region to be strengthened further by introducing Aker Solutions‘ technologies, such as wire-line tractors and down-hole tools, process systems, surface wellheads and drilling technologies.

A new engineering office will be established in the United Arab Emirates to tie the entire Aker Solutions offering together in a whole.

Aker Solutions will pay an equity value of  $350 million and assume approximately  $110 million in net interest bearing debt at the time of closing, depending on the capital expenditure in 2012.

The purchase price is a fixed equity value based on NPS Energy‘s 31 March 2011 balance sheet.

Aker Solutions has access to the necessary funding, and the transaction is expected to be completed by the end 2012 or early 2013.

NPS Energy in brief

In 2011, NPS Energy had revenues of approximately $116 million.

Revenues have on average grown approximately 16 % per year since 2006.

For 2012, management forecasts operating revenues around $150 million and EBITDA around $48 million.

The company reported net interest bearing debt of $114.1 million in Q4 2011.

NPS Energy is headed by Adnan Ghabris who has more than 23 years’ international experience in the oil and gas industry.

He will take the role of Aker Solutions‘ regional president for the Middle East and North Africa region, reporting directly to CEO Øyvind Eriksen.

Aker Solutions in brief

Aker Solutions provides oil field products, systems and services for customers in the oil and gas industry world-wide.

The company brings together engineering and technologies for oil and gas drilling, field development, exploration and production.

It employs approximately 23 500 people in more than 30 countries.

In 2011 Aker Solutions had aggregated annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion.

The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Through NPS Energy acquisition, Aker Solutions implements the transformation of its Business Model and extends it Market Leadership in the richest oil and gas region.

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Carbon dioxide injection to boost Adma-Opco oil fields

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma-Opco) is Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)‘s subsidiary to explore and produce oil and gas from the offshore areas of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE.

If the Abu Dhabi Emirate is rich of oil reserves, it has always been short of gas.

This lack of gas is partly compensated by the Dolphin pipeline carrying natural gas from Qatar to Abu Dhabi then to export.

In addition, Adnoc is planning to boost oil production to 3.5 million b/d by 2017, from actual 2.8 million b/d.

In this context, Adnoc is for years looking for solutions to reduce the oil industry consumption of 5 billion cf/d of natural gas to compensate the depletion of the maturing oil fields.

This solution may come from injecting carbon dioxide instead of natural gas into its offshore fields for enhance oil recovery (EOR).

Abu Dhabi Co. for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), the ADNOC‘s subsidiary for onshore operations has completed a pilot project onshore to inject 1.2 million cf/d  carbone dioxide into the Rumaitha field.

First results are very encouraging to the point that ADCO is now planning a further four to five pilot onshore projects for 2013 and 2014.

This expansion on the Rumaitha field would require 20 or 30 times more CO² and would increase the oil recovery by10 percent.

At ADCO level the use of the CO2 injection to all the onshore fields would add 7 billion b/d, twice more than the actual crude oil production.

This overall expansion of CO² injection to all ADCO oil fields would require the production of 400 million to 500 million cf/d carbon dioxide.

At that point, in 2020 the question comes to find sustainable source of CO² to support such an EOR  program.

From financial perspective, the current production costs are about:

 - $5 a barrel for the carbon capture

 - $20 a barrel all costs included with the CO2 injection.

Compared with oil barrel price staying steadily around $100, the pilot projects are proving that the carbon capture and injection is wealthy enough onshore to be tested offshore. 

Masdar to provide ADNOC Carbon Capture expertise

Masdar Carbon, one of the five integrated units of Masdar, and ADNOC have decided to extend their agreement for closer co-operation in carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS).

One plan under consideration is to build a plant next to Emirates Steel Industries PJSC (Emirates Steel) to capture 800,000 t/y of CO².

From the significant progress made on the EOR pilot projects after two years in operation, ADNOC and Masdar have decided to move to the next step in drafting Head of Terms (HoT) to govern future detailed delivery agreements.

 A CO₂ injection pilot project on enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at an onshore field completed two years last November and the wealth of data collected over the period has encouraged the two partners to go ahead with the Emirates Steel project.

Masdar intends to capture nearly 800,000 t/y carbon dioxide-rich stream, prior to emission from the Emirates Steel Phase 1 and Phase 2 lines.

The CO₂ feedstock from the Emirates Steel plant, containing 90% CO₂, will be transferred to a common compression and dehydration facility at the project site in Mussafah.

The CO₂ feedstock will be compressed into dense phase; delivering a CO₂ feedstock of over 98% purity, through 50km of the pipeline network, to be injected in ADCO onshore oil field.

On the side of Emirates Steel, the partnership with Masdar would contribute to produce steel with lower carbon footprint through capturing carbon dioxide on a mass scale.

Successful carbon capture projects are anticipated to have a positive long-term economic impact on Abu Dhabi including economic growth, job creation and the development and export of CCS-related technology know-how.

Masdar in brief

Masdar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Government-owned Mubadala Development Company, a catalyst for the economic diversification of the Emirate.

Established in 2006, Masdar is a commercially driven enterprise that operates to reach the broad boundaries of the renewable energy and sustainable technologies industry – there by giving it the necessary scope to meet these challenges. 

Masdar drives clean fossil fuel energy and energy efficiency to monetize carbon dioxide emission reductions.

Masdar Carbon provides technical assistance, project management, carbon trading expertise in oil and gas and power sectors in Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Masdar leads global advanced technologies, value chain applications and deployment strategies for clean energy and CCS.

Through this carbon capture and injection for enhanced oil recovery, ADNOC, Masdar and Emirates Steel are building up their respective Market Leadership and are proving how technology in the oil or steel industry can also cope with environmental benefits.

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Fujairah refinery, a strategic project for the UAE

International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) is moving ahead with the crude oil refinery project to be located at Fujairah, UAE.

The Fujairah refinery, should have a capacity of 10.0 million t/y or 200,000 b/d.

IPIC estimated the capital expenditure at $ 3 billion.

The Fujairah refinery project should be developed in two phases:

 - First phase: construction of the Refinery to be completed by 2017

 - Second phase: development of the petrochemical complex including a 1.2 million t/y polypropylene plant.

The Fujairah Refinery project is a strategic initiative of the Government.

To be located near the new Abu Dhabi crude oil pipeline Main oil Terminal and the UAE deep water Export Terminals in Fujairah, the Refinery is a master piece of the Government strategy to shortcut the Strait of Hormuz.

The proposed Fujairah refinery would be near the outlet of a 1.5 million-barrel-a-day oil pipeline running to the coast and set to be completed in 2012.

The pipeline will give access for exports to the Gulf of Oman, allowing shipments to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, the transit point for tankers hauling oil from producers including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and Kuwait.

In addition to this geographical aspects to secure the export of crude oil from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries, IPIC intents to give the Fujairah refinery the capability to meet its own power generation requirements.

It means that the project will include power generation facilities.

The Government wants also to take this opportunity to provide power supply to the local grid of the Northern Emirates.

Through the capital expenditure in the refinery and all the associated infrastructures needed around for about the same amount, the IPIC’s Fujairah refinery will create significant opportunities in Northern Emirates. 

The refinery is expected to create more than 750 job opportunities out of which 375 to 400 wil be for UAE Nationals, once it comes into operation.

The refinery shall be designed to process UAE crude oil such as Murban, Upper Zakum and Dubai.

Shaw Group completes Feasibility Study

In April 2011, IPIC had awarded the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract and the pre-front end engineering and design (feasibility study) phase of the Fujairah Refinery to Shaw Stone & Webster.

The Shaw Group completed the project feasibility study, so that IPIC could proceed with the call for tender for the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract.

At least Fluor from USA and Technip from France are going to bid.

IPIC is targeting the Fujairah refinery project completion to occur by mid 2016.

With questions accumulating on the neighboring Iran and because of the five years lead time to turn a refinery from greenfield into operation, IPIC is driving up to speed the Fujairah refinery project with the support of engineering companies like Shaw, Fluor or Technip which have local capabilities to ensure the project completion on time. 

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Definition

GCC Countries refers to the countries supporting this Gulf Cooperation Council whereas GCC is the acronym for Gulf Cooperation Council or Gulf Co-operation Council.

The six GCC Countries are:

 - Bahrain – or Kingdom of Bahrain

 - Kuwait

 - Oman – or Sultanate of Oman

 - Qatar

 - Saudi Arabia – or Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

 - UAE – United Arab Emirates

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The Gulf Cooperation Council is the short name of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (CCASG), also referred to as the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC).

Yemen (or The Republic of Yemen) is not included although geographically it lies in the same region, sharing a land border with Oman and Saudi Arabia.

The Gulf Cooperation Council was founded on 26 May 1981.

The unified economic agreement between the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council was signed on 11 November 1981 in UAE.

These GCC countries may also be called to as the GCC States.

The “Gulf” refers to the body of water known as the Arabian Gulf in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, or the Persian Gulf as referred to in many other places.

All GCC countries have part or all of their coastline in the Arabian Gulf (a section of the Musandam Peninsula belongs to Oman).

GCC citizens can usually travel freely between member states without the need for visas, or sometimes passports – a national identity card might be sufficient, at least at land border crossings.

GCC countries shared economics, politics, culture, religion.

A GCC common market was launched on 1 January 2008.

The GCC common market grants national treatment to all GCC firms and GCC citizens in any other GCC country, and in doing so removes all barriers to cross country capital expenditure and services trade.

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Petrofac-Schlumberger won 30 years Pemex contract

Schlumberger in brief

Houston, Texas-based Schlumberger Limited (Shlumberger) is the world’s leading oil field services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management that optimize reservoir performance for customers working in the oil and gas industry.

Schlumberger has principal offices in Paris-France, Houston-Texas and The Hague-The Netherlands and reported revenues of $39.54 billion in 2011.

Schlumberger employ over 113,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 85 countries. 

With 25 research and engineering facilities worldwide, Schlumberger places strong emphasis on developing innovative technology that adds value for customers.

In 2011, Schlumberger invested $1.1 billion in R&D.

Petrofac in brief

The new alliance in integrated services contracts between Petrofac and Schlumberger not only demonstrates the complementary skill sets and proven execution capability to maximize the potential of these  maturing Panuco oil fields for PEMEX, but also the strong and longstanding commitment to take Market Leadership for future growth in margin and market share into Mexico. 

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WorleyParsons completed FEED for PDO Zauliyah

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is working on a new gas plant project at Zauliyah in central Oman adjacent to PDO’s existing Zauliyah Oil Production Station.

The greenfield project will process non-associated gas, water and condensates from the Hasirah and Hawqa fields in the Bahja-Rima area of PDO’s concession to boost output by over 1 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) of natural gas.

The Hasirah oil reservoir has been in production since the mid 1980s, while  the Hawqa field was brought into operation in 1997.

Both fields are characterised as oil and gas reservoirs located in the Gharif and Buah formations.

While smaller than PDO’s gas processing plants at Saih Rawl and Saih Nihayda,the projected Zauliyah facility will still make a significant contribution to the company’s natural gas output.

From Front end engineering and design (FEED), PDO could estimate project capital expenditure around $100-150 million.

The PDO Zauliyah gas processing facility is designed for 1.2 mmscmd capacity.

The project scope includes:

 - Gas handling facilities

 - Processing trains

 - Sulfur recovery unit

 - Installation of interconnecting flow lines and other off-plot facilities

The dry gas processed in the Zauliyah plant will be exported to customers via the existing South Oman Gas Line.

Off-gas from the plant will be channelled to the associated gas facility of the nearby Zauliyah Oil Production Station where it will be mixed and used for the station’s gas lift compressors.

Produced water from the gas plant will be routed to the oil production station’s dehydration tanks.

As natural gas is continuously produced, wellhead pressure is projected to decline over the lifetime of the field predicted to come for depletion that by the year 2025.

Then only the Hawqa field will continue to produce natural gas.

WorleyParsons provided the FEED for the PDO Zauliyah gas processing facility project.

14 EPC bidders on PDO Zauliyah gas project

PDO received no less than 14 bids from local and international engineering contractors to build the Zauliyah Gas Plant project:

 - Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) from Greece

 - Dodsal from UAE

 - Engineering Procurement & Project Management (EPPM) from Tunisia

 - Essar from India

 - Galfar Engineering & Contracting from Oman

 - Indian Oiltanking from India

 - Jahanpars Engineering & Construction Company from Iran

 - Larsen & Tubro from India

 - Posco Engineering Company from South Korea

 - Tata Projects from India

 - Tecna from Argentina

 - WorleyParsons from Australia

The successful bidder will be awarded an Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) contract to build the PDO  Zauliyah gas processing plant according to WorleyParsons’s FEED, to be completed and come on stream in 2015.

PDO in brief

Petroleum Development Oman is the NOC in the Sultanate dedicated to exploration and production.

PDO accounts for more than 70% of the country’s crude-oil production and nearly all of its natural gas supply.

The first economic find of oil was made in 1962, and the first consignment of oil was exported in 1967

PDO is owned by:

 - The Government of Oman with 60% interest

 - Shell 34%

 -  Total 4%

 - Partex 2%

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Electrical and Instrumentation experts to meet in Abu Dhabi on November 12th &13th 2012

PCIC stands for the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee.

PCIC Middle East is the regional representation of PCIC Europe to organize the premier Conference for the exchange of experience in electricity and instrumentation in the oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, covering all the aspects of the upstream and downstream activities.

The PCIC Middle East and PCIC Europe conferences mobilize experts from:

 - End-users

 - Engineering and Services companies

 - Contractors

 - Manufacturers

 - Regulators

 - Insurance institutions

 - International standards organizations

The purpose of PCIC Middle East is for these recognized experts to present papers and to lead panels discussions to share their experience and good practises with the attendees.

PCIC Middle East Technical Committee

The subjects are selected for the conference by a Technical Committee because of their high value for the companies operating in the Middle East region in order to provide  immediate benefits to attendees.

 The Technical Committee is made of representatives from 2B1st Consulting, ABB, BP, Eaton, ExxonMobil, Hess, Sabic, Schneider Electric, Shell, Statoil, Technip, Total and ZVEI covering all the aspects of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry:

 - Energy Efficiency, GHG Emissions & Sustainable development

 - Safety in the workplace & Qualification of the personal

 - Regulations and new standards

 - Electrical & Instrumentation Design and Engineering good practices

 - Equipment, Systems & Components

 - Operation, Maintenance, Repair & Asset Management

 - Extreme Conditions applications (Arctic, Hot, Deep Offshore, Subsea)

 - Instrumentation & Control System

 - IEC 61850 Experience & Feed back

Major Companies attendees feedback

All the major companies, IOCs and NOCs, of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry are represented with numerous attendees.

These companies do not hesitate to communicate their satisfaction from the fruitful learning sessions and friendly networking during the Conference.

Occidental of Oman

“The conference contains very useful material and topics which covered all the Electrical and Instrumentation fields“.                                                      

A. Al Sawafi, Occidental of Oman

Saudi Aramco

“This is far the best conference I ever attended. Most of the papers were very beneficial to my work. Unlike other conferences, all its papers are related to Industry“.

S. Al Majed, Saudi Aramco

Royal Dutch Shell

“The annual Oil & Gas Electrical Engineer “Must-Attend” event!“

W. De Wilt, Shell International

Total

“A mandatory event for Electrical Oil & Gas Engineers…the yearly snapshot of the Industry!”

E. Meyer, Total Exploration & Production

PCIC Middle East and PCIC Europe in brief

PCIC Europe organizes an annual conference in Europe to share expertise and good practices between the Electrical and Instrumentation Engineers working in the Oil and Gas and Petrochemical Industry.

Many engineers working in Middle-East would like to attend our PCIC Europe Conference but may meet difficulties doing so for multiple reasons.

Therefore PCIC Europe decided to take its expertise to them by creating the PCIC Middle East Conference.

The first PCIC Middle East Conference will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE on November 12^th & 13^th 2012 in conjunction with the ADIPEC Exhibition. 

Several sponsors of PCIC Europe have already extended their sponsorship to PCIC Middle East in addition to local sponsors.

ADNOC is the official sponsor of ADIPEC.

PCIC Europe has signed a contract with ADIPEC to host our PCIC Middle East conference during their event.

The set up will be similar to PCIC Europe where Authors will present their papers and reply to questions through interactive sessions.

In joining ADIPEC one of the most successful event of the oil and gas and petrochemical industry in the GCC Countries, PCIC Middle East will be the must attend event for of the electrical and instrumentation specialists of the operating companies, engineering and services companies, contractors and local authorities.

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Fujairah builds the third world biggest oil storage hub

The Strait of Hormuz is channelizing 35% of the global oil maritime traffic.

In a context of increasing tension with the neighboring Iran, Fujairah in the UAE is developing one of the biggest oil storage and export terminal in the world.

The storage capacity of the Fujairah terminal will be around 6.8 million cubic meters at the end of 2012 and should double by 2015 to reach 13.3 million cubic meters.

To build up this oil storage capacity a tens major companies are mobilizing capital expenditure in Fujairah.

Sinopec and Concorde Energy

Sinopec from China will take up about half the 1.1 million cubic metres of oil products storage that Singapore-based Concorde Energy plans to build in Fujairah.

That project is due to be completed by the third quarter of 2014.

Vitol Group and Royal Vopak NV

Vitol Group and Royal Vopak NV which have already 2.1 million cubic meters are planning to add 855,000 cubic meters by 2014.

Gulf Petroleum

Gulf Petroleum from Sharjah, UAE, is currently building 412,000 cubic meters storage capacity at $136 million capital expenditure to reach 1.2 million cubic meters at the end of 2012.

Gulf Petroleum already trades 18% of the Gulf market and ambitions to reach 25% with additional  408,000 cubic meters in 2014.

VTTI Fujairah

VTTI Fujairah is already running one of the biggest storage capacity with 1.17 million cubic meters and is planning a further expansion of 1 million cubic meters in 2014.

The Dubai-based and Dubai Government-owned company ENOC is building 240,000 cubic meters capacity to be available in 2013.

GPS Chemail

GPS Chemoil from Singapore is building capacity from its actual 86,000 cubic meters to 675,000 cubic meters capacity.

Prime Star Energy

Prime Star Energy, from the Emirates Trading Agency LLC group, has awarded a $100 million EPC contract to IL&FS Engineering & Construction Company to build  an aggregate storage capacity of 600,000 cubic meters.

The storage tank terminal that will be built at an estimated cost of $165 million is expected to be completed in 2014.

Socar and Aurora

Socar Aurora, a joint venture between Socar, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, Aurora Progress SA, and the Government of Fujairah is building up 645,000 cubic meters capacity in three phases, 144,000 cm in 2012, 232,000 cm in 2013 and 295,000 cm in 2014.

Fujairah Refinery and Emirates LNG Terminal

In addition to the oil storage development, Fujairah is also planning  a $ 3 billion Fujairah Refinery and an Emirates LNG terminal.

The Emirates LNG terminal should be built in two phases, each having a capacity of 600 million cf/d.

The first phase will include a floating storage and regasification terminal and will be completed in the second quarter of 2014.

Then an onshore LNG import terminal should be built in 2015.

With the Fujairah Refinery, the Emirates LNG terminal and this doubled oil storage capacity, Fujairah benefits from booming demand from the Middle East and Asia in combination with the threats on the Strait of Hormuz to callenge the world’s top two bunkering and oil trading hubs, Singapore and Rotterdam.

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OMV and Wintershall to appraise Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate field

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), signed a Technical Evaluation Agreement (TEA) with OMV Abu Dhabi E&P GmbH (OMV) and Wintershall Middle East GmbH – Abu Dhabi (Wintershall) to appraise the sulfur rich sour gas (H2S and CO2) and condensate field in Shuwaihat.

This Agreement is part of the strategy developed by Abu Dhabi to diversify its historically narrow pool of operators and stakeholders in the Emirate, mostly Shell, Total, ExxonMobil and few others.

On the last five years, we could see Abu Dhabi opening the doors to new participants and to award crude oil concessions and natural gas projects on a field-by-field basis, as for example to:

 - Occidental of a concession covering two onshore fields in 2008 (no ADNOC participation)

 - ConocoPhillips of the Shah sour gas contract in 2008, from which ConocoPhillips later withdrew and was replaced by Occidental in 2011 (ADNOC participation as 60% shareholder of the project)

 - Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) of a concession covering two onshore areas and one offshore area in January 2012 (ADNOC participation as 60% interestholder in the concession)

The award of Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate to OMV and Wintershall should be considered in that perspective.

Shuwaihat field would be an important development of a natural gas and condensate field in the Western region of Abu Dhabi.

The Shuwaihat field is located some 25 km to the West of Ruwais near Shuweihat Island in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi.

In the TEA agreement OMV and Wintershall will be equal partners while Wintershall will be the operator.

Wintershall and OMV has planning to drill up to three appraisal wells and acquiring 3D-seismic over the field.

In the case of a successful appraisal campaign, ADNOC will participate in the development and production phase of the Shuwaihat field.

Abu Dhabi IPIC holds 24,9% of OMV

Through its sovereign wealth investment found International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), Abu Dhabi is OMV‘s second largest shareholder.

IPIC has been OMV‘s shareholder since 1994.

Last October 2011, IPIC invested $410 million (€327 million) in capital expenditure to raise its share of OMV from 20.4% to 24.9%.

OMV and IPIC are co-owners of Borealis, an Austrian petrochemicals company.

To optimize the appraisal and future development of the Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate field, Wintershall and OMV will employ advanced technologies of the highest standards.

Both companies have a proven track record in Germany and Austria of more than forty years of safe development and production of sour gas (H2S and CO2) and crude oil fields.

A successful appraisal campaign will result in Shuwaihat being an important development of a sulfur-rich sour gas and condensate field contributing to cover the increasing hydrocarbon demand of the UAE and the country’s long-term export capability.

OMV has a long standing experience in the treatment of sour gas as it operates the Aderklaa sour gas treatment plant in Gänserndorf, Austria.

In this context a successful appraisal would provide Adu Dhabi with a double benefit.

First ADNOC could develop this challenging but rich Shuwaihat natural gas and condensate field.

Second IPIC would see in Shuwaihat a fruitful opportunity to leverage significantly the return of its capital expenditure in OMV. 

OMV in brief

OMV Aktiengesellschaft (OMV) is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies.

In 2011, OMV booked $42.5 billion sales with a workforce of 29,800 employees.

In exploration and production, OMV is active in two core countries Romania and Austria.

OMV had proven oil and gas reserves of approximately 1.13 billion barrel oil equivalent (boe) as of year-end 2011 and a production of around 288,000 boe/d in 2011.

In Refining and Marketing, OMV runs approximately 4,500 filling stations in 13 countries including Turkey.

In midstream, OMV operates a 2,000 km long natural gas pipeline network with a marketed capacity of around 101 billion cm in 2011.

OMV has opened an E&P office in Abu Dhabi in 2007.

This office serves for screening business opportunities and the coordination of existing activities in the Middle East region and to further strengthen the relationship with the United Arab Emirates.

The close co-operation with IPIC will support OMV‘s development in the region.

Wintershall in brief

Wintershall Middle East GmbH is a 100% affiliate of Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, Germany.

Wintershall Holding GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BASF SE.

Wintershall has been active in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas for over 80 years.

Wintershall focuses on selected core regions, where the company has built up a high level of regional and technological expertise, such as Europe, North Africa, South America, as well as Russia and the Caspian Sea region.

In addition, these operations are complemented by growing exploration activities in the Arabian Gulf.

In 2010, Wintershall has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, the very first one of a German E+P company in the Emirate.

Wintershall’s involvement in the UAE already stretches back over several decades with activities in Dubai, Ras Al Khaima and Sharjah.

Now Wintershall wants to get more actively involved in long-term upstream projects in the Gulf Region.  

Today, Wintershall employs more than 2,000 staff worldwide from 40 nations and is now Germany’s largest crude oil and natural gas producer.

With the natural gas trading and transport subsidiaries it operates together with Russia’s Gazprom, the BASF’s subsidiary is also an important natural gas supplier on the European market.

ADNOC in brief

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is a National Oil Company (NOC) wholly owned by the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

ADNOC was established in 1971 to operate in all areas of the oil and gas industry and is currently comprised of 15 specialist subsidiary and joint venture companies that encompass a comprehensive range of upstream and downstream activities.

Operating in the UAE and around the world, ADNOC produces over 2.7 million b/d of oil, with plans to increase production to over 3.5 million b/d over the next decade to help satisfy the ever-increasing global demand for oil and hydrocarbon products.

IPIC in brief

The International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), was formed by the Abu Dhabi government in 1984, and tasked with an ambitious mandate to invest capital expenditure in the energy and related sectors across the globe.

The implementation of this mandate has resulted in stakes in more than 15 leading companies across the hydrocarbon value chain, including exploration and production, shipping and pipelines, downstream retail and marketing, petrochemicals, power and utilities as well as industrial services for total assets valued at approximately $60 billion.

IPIC has adopted a flexible approach in terms of its preferred equity stake in investment companies.

The current portfolio comprises ownership interests ranging from 4% to wholly-owned, depending on factors such as size, synergistic potential and investment opportunity.

IPIC does not generally participate in the day to day management of the companies in which it holds a stake.

However, through active participation in their governing bodies, it helps set the strategic direction of its invested companies.

The synergy within IPIC‘s portfolio and the mutually beneficial relationships with business partners around the world are essential to the success and growth of the company.

Although the Shuwaihat sour gas and condensate field is among the most challenging wells in the region, ADNOC is mobilizing the required technology through OMV and Wintershall with a double profit for Abu Dhabi expected to be collected through IPIC.

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Badra Export pipeline and Infield pipeline awarded soon

Gazprom continues to award engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the different packages of its $2 billion Badra development project.

Badra oil field is located in the Wasit Province at the Southeast of Iraq.

Badra is part of these giant fields that the Iraq Government intends to develop to increase its production from actual 2.8 million b/d to 6 million b/d in 2020.

In the Badra oil field the working interest are shared between: - Gazprom 30% the operator

 - KOGAS 22%

 - Petronas 15%

 - TPAO 7.5%

Technip had completed the FEED on first half 2011.

In February 2012, Gazprom awarded Petrofac for the EPC contract, valued at $329 million, to build the first central oil gathering & treatment station (CPF 1).

This CPF1 package includes:

 - Three oil treatment lines with a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day

 - A pump station

 - Oil storage facilities

 - An oil metering station

In May 2012, Gazprom selected  Samsung Engineering for the $ 900 million new  Central Processing Facility (CPF-2), ahead of Petrofac and Saipem.

This CPF2 package includes:

 - Gas treatment station with a capacity of 1.5 billion cm/y

 - Water injection

 - Three crude oil processing trains

CPECC leads Gazprom Badra pipeline package

Among the most important packages still to be awarded for the Badra oil field development project, the pipeline package should be awarded soon by Gazprom.

Five bidders are in competition:

 - CPECC from China

 - Dodsal from the UAE

 - Petrofac from UK

 - Punj Lloyd from India

 - Saipem fom Italy

This Badra pipelines package includes two pipelines:

 - Export pipeline

 - Infield pipeline

The Export pipeline is 24-inch, 165 kilometers long to carry on the oil from the Badra oil field to the Garraf field.

Gazprom estimates the capital expenditure for the export pipeline around $190 million.

The infield pipeline is a network of oil and gas and water connecting wellheads and central processing facility and the storage facilities.

The Infield pipeline capital expenditure is approximated to $130 million.

Gazprom intends to award the Export pipeline and the Infield pipeline in a single EPC package which should end up around $300 million.

In this competition CPECC is the lowest bidder.

CPECC stands for China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Company, a Chinese Institute belonging to the National Oil Company (NOC) PetroChina (CNPC)

Gazprom and its partners,KOGAS, Petronas and TPAO, are expecting the Badra oil field to produce 180,000 b/d crude oil in the second half of 2015.

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PCIC Middle East Conference to take place with ADIPEC on Nov 12th & 13th 2012

Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) organizes its 15th edition on November 11th to 14th 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) in UAE.

With more than 1,500 exhibitions and 45,000 attendees, ADIPEC is the largest exhibition in the Middle East for the oil & gas and petrochemical industry.

ADIPEC is supported by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the UAE’s Ministry of Energy.

The purpose of ADIPEC is to host in one place the best of oil & gas and petrochemical industry and to offer to all the professionals of this sector a unique place in Middle East to share experience, discover, network, discuss and debate core industry issues.

For these reasons, PCIC Middle East has decided to organize its conference in synergy with ADIPEC.

PCIC Middle East: Global expertise for local industry

PCIC Middle East is the regional representation of PCIC Europe

PCIC stands for the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee.

PCIC Europe is a non profitable association driven by the key players of the oil & gas and petrochemical industry to organize Conferences for the exchange of experience and good practice regarding:

 - Electricity

 - instrumentation

 The Conference agenda addresses all the main issues of the upstream, midstream and downstream activities such as:

 - Energy Efficiency, GHG Emissions & Sustainable development

 - Safety in the workplace & Qualification of the personnel

 - Regulations and new standards

 - Electrical & Instrumentation Design and Engineering good practices

 - Equipment, Systems & Components

 - Operation, Maintenance, Repair & Asset Management

 - Extreme Conditions applications (Arctic, Hot, Deep Offshore, Subsea)

 - Instrumentation & Control System

 - IEC 61850 Experience & Feed back

PCIC Middle East: The voice of the Oil and Gas Industry

To reflect the voice of the oil & gas and petrochemical industry and guaranty the high level of expertise shared between participants within the Conference, the PCIC Middle East Technical Committee is driven by:

Major End users

 - BP

 - ExxonMobil

 - Hess

 - Sabic

 - Shell

 - Statoil

 - Total

Engineering and Services Companies

 - 2B1st Consulting

 - Technip

 - ZVEI

Global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)

 - ABB

 - Eaton

 - GE

 - Schneider Electric

PCIC Middle East Technical Program 2012

In order to contribute to the continuous improvement of the good practices in GCC Countries for existing operations or new projects, PCIC Middle East Technical Committee selected the most knowledgeable experts of the oil & gas and petrochemical industry in the Gulf to prepare the Technical Program of the PCIC Middle East Conference.

Day 1 – Monday November 12

1. Electromagnetic Compatibility – A Vital Issue for Medium-voltage Switchgear

2. Electrical Power System Challenges During the Expansion of Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities

3. Reduced environmental impact and improved safety and performance of power transformers with natural ester dielectric insulating fluids

4. What to do if you are afraid of the dark?

5. Electrical Installation Design, Selection and Erection IEC 60079-14, The significant changes in Edition 5

6. The Big Picture of Arc-Flash Mitigation

7. IEC Standard High Voltage Circuit-Breakers: Practical Guidelines for Overvoltage Protection in Generator Applications

8. IEC Switchgear & Controlgear – A designer’s and User’s View of Internal Arc Withstand 

Day 2 – Tuesday November 13

1.  Industrialization of Active Magnetic Bearing Systems with Standard Drive Technology

2. Using Dry Low NOx Turbines in Industrial Facilities

3. Increase power transformer reliability and availability with on site overhaul and repair

4. IECEx System – Compliance Services to Industry and role of the United Nations, UNECE

5. Optimized design and maintenance for Low Voltage MCCs

6. The Practical Issues involved in Designing, Specifying and Installing Skin Effect Current Tracing Systems

7. Motors for Explosive Gas Atmospheres: Selection, Installation, Inspection, Maintenance Following IEC Standards

8. Internal arc testing of Low Voltage Switchgear

All these topics will be addressed during ADIPEC through the presentation of papers by the most corresponding knowledgeable experts of the oil & gas and petrochemical industry.

You can find more details about these presentations and their Authors with the Abstracts posted on the PCIC Middle East website www.pcic-middle-east.com, or in clicking on this direct link Program – 2012 Papers Abstracts.

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