Turkish firm wins Iraq Majnoon deal

11 July 2011

Contract involves installation and operation of early production facilities

The partners developing Iraq’s 12.6-billion-barrel-Majnoon oil field have awarded a $60m contract to Turkey’s Enka for the installation and operation of two new crude oil production facilities.

An official contract has not yet been signed, however, Reuters news agency reports.

The $242m engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the 100,000 barrel a day (b/d) facilities was awarded to the UK’s Petrofac in April.

Enka will also install two crude oil storage tanks, four pumping stations and a trunk line connecting three well-clusters to the production facilities.

“Output is expected to hit 175,000 bpd in 2012 and that requires installing new crude facilities and further preparing well pads to drill new oil wells,” says an Iraqi official.

The field is being developed by a consortium of UK/Dutch oil major Shell, Malaysia’s Petronas and state-owned South Oil Company. The group agreed to increase production to 1.8 million b/d from approximately 50,000 b/d currently (MEED 26:4:10).

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