ADMA OPCO’s Satah Al Razboot (SARB) full field development has been approved by ADNOC to proceed with high priority in order to start production by early 2016, according to the offshore production company’s annual review.
The SARB Project Team was formed under the sponsorship of ADMA-OPCO’s CEO Ali Al Jarwan, and the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) was awarded in 2010.
The annual report reveals the target was to complete the FEED activities by April 2011. The developed scheme is based on building two artificial islands for drilling instead of the conventional Wellhead Towers approach and directs the well fluid through subsea pipelines to a new facility to be installed on Zirku Island for processing, storage and export of the SARB production of 100 MBD of crude oil. An option to export crude through Jabbel Al Dhanna is being studied. This facility will also handle the Umm Lulu production of 105 MBD in addition to the Gas and Water Injection requirement for SARB Field.
ADNOC is scheduled to complete the artificial islands construction by end 2012. The layout of the falcon shaped islands has been finalized and an optimum well location for drilling and SIMOPS has been identified. The current plan
is to drill 44 wells from SARB 1 and 42 wells from SARB 2.
The First Stage Separation study concluded that no separation will be introduced to the artificial islands in compliance with the Select Stage findings. A combined oil and gas pipeline option has been adopted and two 26 inch combined fully rated oil and gas pipelines- one from each island (SARB 1 & SARB 2) – to Zirku Island have been selected. The start-up of drilling by a new onshore rig suitable for extended reach drilling is targeted for August 2013 from SARB 1 and by January 2014 for SARB 2.Â
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