Kauther Gas Plant

Project:
 Kauther Gas Plant
Customer:
 Petroleum Development Oman
Location:
 Oman
Start date:
 July 2005
Completion:
 October 2007
Project value:    
 US$ 240 million
Scope:            
              
Engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup and one-year initial operations of gas plant and associated facilities involving:

  • Single-train gas conditioning and gas dehydration 
  • Design capacity of 20 million standard cubic metres per day of wet gas 
  • Condensate and water exported as mixed stream by 18" pipeline (by others) to new slugcatcher at Saih Rawl CPF, 106km away 
  • Dry gas exported to Government gas line          (by others)                                                                    
  • FEED                                               
In July 2005, Petrofac secured a contract managed by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to build a new gas plant in the Kauther field in north Oman. It is a project with considerable challenges, the most significant being the demanding schedule. The transformation of barren desert in a remote location into a fully operational gas plant in 107 weeks demands a special combination of skills and a relentless desire to succeed.

The project involves the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and initial operation of a 20 million standard cubic metres per day gas processing facility. The plant comprises a single gas conditioning and dehydration train. The unstabilised condensate and water are exported as a mixed stream via a 106km pipeline to new slugcatcher and degassing vessels within the existing Saih Rawl facility, thereby combining greenfield and brownfield activities.

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