Q&A with Ali Rashid Al-Jarwan, CEO, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company

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Q&A What is the current production capacity of your company? What is your contribution to ADNOC’s overall production? We are on the growth agenda, as is the case with all global oil and gas producing countries. As a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) is playing a major part in the ongoing efforts to increase oil production capacity by 35% to 3.5 million BOPD by 2018 from the current 2.7 million BOPD. This production target is set to be achieved through three major subsidiaries of ADNOC: ADMA-OPCO, Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), and Zakum Development Company. For ADMA-OPCO, we are planning to increase production by 370,000 BOPD over current production levels of 550,000 to 600,000 BOPD. The new production target will be achieved mainly from the Lower Zakum field (100,000 BOPD) with 270,000 BOPD from the Umm Lulu, Satah Al-Razboot, and Nasr fields. Added to the Umm Shaif production share, which currently stands at 275,000 BOPD, and Zakum production of 325,000 BOPD, we are targeting a total production of 1 million BOPD by 2020. Are the fields under development on track? What is the main scope of work at these fields? Phase I of the Umm Lulu and Nasr fields is to assess reservoir behavior; however, we are already now moving to full field development of Umm Lulu. We awarded two pack-ages: The first package consists of seven towers and flowlines and a pipeline to Zirku Island to join SARB. For SARB, the company is moving to a full field development to produce 100,000 BOPD, and all seven engineering and construction packages have been awarded. For the full development of SARB oil field, we have selected the construction of two artificial islands, SARB-1 and SARB-2, which are currently under construction by the ADNOC Civil Projects Division. The location of the islands is 120 km off the north-west coast of Abu Dhabi. The onshore facilities engineering, procurement, and construction work under-taken by Hyundai covers processing, storage, and export facilities on Zirku Island and wellhead facilities on two artificial islands. Meanwhile, the offshore work undertaken by Petrofac mainly includes around 200 km of subsea pipelines, 55 km of subsea cables, a single point mooring crude loading facility, four offshore flares, and two riser platforms, in addition to drilling utilities on the artificial islands. ADMA-OPCO has taken advantage of these major projects to develop and train young United Arab Emirates (UAE) nationals in engineering and project management.