QatarEnergy has renewed a 5-year agreement with Japan’s Qatar Petroleum Development Co (QPD) for the continued development and production of the Al-Karkara and A-Structures oil fields, located in the territorial waters of the State of Qatar.
This new agreement, which commences on 23 December 2022, succeeds the development and production sharing agreement signed in December 1997. Under the new agreement, QPD, which is owned by Cosmo E&P and Sojitz, will continue to act as the operator of the oil fields.
Al-Karkara and A-Structures are offshore fields located about 90 kilometers to the east of Doha and consist of three small fields: Al-Karkara, which was discovered in 1988, and the A-Structures (A-North and A-South), which were discovered in 1971. The fields were initially considered non-commercial until QPD managed to prove their commercial viability in the late 1990s. The fields started production in March 2006, and since then have produced a total of 33.5 million barrels of crude oil.
Al-Karkara and A-Structures are the first fields in the State of Qatar to achieve zero gas flaring by re-injecting the excess sour gas underground.
