The Khuff development is the last of three multi-million dollar projects by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to meet rising gas demand in the UAE.

It centres on developing the offshore Khuff reservoir which lies underneath the Abu Bakhoosh and Umm Shaif fields, and transporting gas via pipeline onshore at Taweelah, east of Abu Dhabi city. After treatment at a new processing plant at Taweelah, the gas will be delivered to Jebel Ali in Dubai emirate and the condensate will go to Umm al-Nar.

The scheme has three main elements:

Five new wellhead platforms and one new processing platform will be built offshore at Abu Bakhoosh from where 320 million cubic feet a day (mcf/d) of dry sour gas will be transported to Umm Shaif through a 20- inch diameter, 43-kilometre-long pipeline.

A further five wellhead platforms will be installed along with a new processing plaform at Umm Shaif. From here gas will be sent to Taweelah through a 42-inch diameter pipeline, which will be about 180 kilometres long. The pipeline will have a design capacity of up to 950 mcf/d.

At Taweelah, a gas plant will be built with two trains, each of 320 mcf/d. Sweetening, recovery and LPG units will also be installed. The plant is expected to be expanded through the addition of new trains at a later date. From Taweelah the condensate will be sent to Umm al-Nar through a 14-inch diameter, 50-kilometre-long pipeline, while the dry gas will be transported through a 65-kilometre-long pipeline of about 30 inches diameter to Jebel Ali where a gas receiving station will be built.