Saudi Aramco has announced the successful completion of new gas treatment facilities in Khursaniya few weeks ahead of schedule, as part of the second stage of the mammoth Karan gas project.
The new facilities, which aim to develop Karan, can treat a billion cubic feet a day of non-associated gas extracted from the field.
Two more units will be in full operation within the next few months, that would increase the amount of processed gas extracted from the field to 1.8 billion cubic feet a day by 2013, according to a report from the Saudi Gazette.
“With the full operation of this facility, the second phase of Karan gas field development program will be complete,” the company said in a statement yesterday.
The first development phase produces an additional 500 million cubic feet a day of gas extracted from the Karan field, which is transported through underwater pipelines to the gas laboratory at Khursaniya onshore area.
Three production platforms at Karan are already in operation, while the remaining two platforms will be operational in Q3 2012 and Q2 2013 respectively.
The platforms are remotely operated and controlled from Khursaniya. From the tie-in platform, gas is sent via an underwater pipeline, to the facilities at Khursaniya. H2S, CO2, and water are all removed from the feed gas stream in the gas-treatment trains.
The treated gas is then ready for use. The hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide are directed to the sulfur recovery unit where the hydrogen sulfide is converted to elemental sulfur.
