Adco is planning to award a four-year contract. It will include providing PMC services for the following oil field developments:Bida al-Qemzan, Ruwais and Qusahwira, for which a tender is due to be issued by late 2006 for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) package following a recent completion of an initial concept study. Estimated to cost $1,500 million, the project will entail the drilling of production wells and the supply and installation of gas-oil separation plants (GOSPs), slug catchers, a gathering network, pumps and related facilities. The Qusahwira field is located east of Shah; Bida al-Qemzan is situated to the west of Bab. The development aims to increase production capacity by 90,000 b/d (MEED 28:4:06);Northeast Bab (NEB) phase 2 aims to add 100,000 b/d of capacity from the Rumaitha and Al-Dabbiyah fields. Sustainable production capacity is 150,000 b/d, following the installation in early summer of two oil processing trains, in-field pipelines and related facilities. In early 2003, a $613 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to install the new production units (MEED 14:3:03); andBab phase 2, for which a tender will be issued by late 2006 for the FEED contract, following the completion of a screen study by Adco. The project aims to increase production capacity by an additional 100,000 b/d through further development of the Thamama B reservoir. At present, the field has a design capacity of 420,000 b/d. However, with constraints posed by the non-availability of gas for reinjection to maintain reservoir pressure, sustainable capacity stands at 300,000 b/d (MEED 29:7:05).

Outside the overall PMC contract will be the Sahil, Asab & Shah (SAS) full-field development. Adco is planning to increase production capacity from the three onshore oil fields by a total of 60,000 b/d through major modifications to surface handling facilities and at an estimated cost of $1,400 million. US-based Foster Wheeler has been formally appointed as the FEED contractor; the US/Canadian VECO is acting as the project manager (MEED 23:6:06).