The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), UAE announced in a statement that it has awarded integrated rigless services contracts across six of its artificial islands in the Upper Zakum and Satah Al Razboot (SARB) fields to support its production capacity expansion to 5 million barrels per day (mmbpd) by 2030.
The total contract values are AED 2.8 billion (USD 762.4million).
The Projects has been awarded to following three companies:
- Schlumberger – Contract value AED 1.4 billion (USD 381.2 million)
- ADNOC Drilling – Contract value AED 839.58 million (USD 228.71 million)
- Halliburton – Contract value AED 564.85 million (USD 153.87 million)
The scope of the contracts includes coiled tubing services with thru-tubing downhole tools, stimulation services, including equipment and chemicals/fluid systems, surface well testing services, wireline, and production logging services and tools, saturation monitoring, and well integrity.
The duration of the contract is five years.
The six artificial islands covered by the awards are Asseifiya, Ettouk, Al Ghallan, and Umm Al Anbar in the Upper Zakum field and Al Qatia and Bu Sikeen in the SARB field.
Artificial islands provide significant cost and environmental benefits, particularly in shallow water, by enabling the use of lower-cost land-drilling rigs instead of higher-cost offshore jack-up drilling rigs, statement said.