ADNOC, Abu Dhabi’s integrated oil and gas company, has unveiled its new Gas Master Plan, to ensure a sustainable and economic supply of gas that can meet the growing energy requirements of Abu Dhabi and ADNOC’s international customers.
In line with ADNOC’s recently announced ‘2030 Strategy’, there will be a strong focus on the application of new and innovative technologies to enable greater gas recovery in all reservoirs. ADNOC also plans to tap into additional sour gas reservoirs to boost supplies of gas.
As part of its integrated Gas Master Plan, which links every part of the gas value chain, ADNOC has also initiated a gas price restructuring exercise to maximise the value of its gas, and ensure ADNOC receives a fair price for its gas.
Omar Suwaina Al Suwaidi, ADNOC gas management director, said, “ADNOC is exploring a number of options to make more gas available for higher priority applications, maintain a sustainable gas supply, and meet Abu Dhabi’s increasing gas demand in the future. We believe that we can shrink our energy imports substantially by tapping into undeveloped deep and sour gas reserves, unconventional gas resources and deploying innovative technology such as Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).”
ADNOC’s 2030 strategy calls for it to optimise the volumes of gas used for re-injection and in field power generation, to free up valuable gas for other uses, such as electricity generation and water desalination. Plans to increase its sour gas production, and subsequently the sulphur by- product, over the coming decade, would make Abu Dhabi one of the world’s largest sulphur producers.
Along the same lines of achieving these objectives, ADNOC announced during the ADIPEC week its intentions of expanding Al Hosn Facility in partnership with Occidental Petroleum to increase sour gas processing by 50% of existing capacity.
Al Hosn plant could become operational within the life span of ADNOC’s new five-year business plan which is a part of the company’s ‘2030 Strategy’. The plant is a joint venture between Adnoc, with a 60% share, and Occidental Petroleum, at 40% share.
ADNOC has plans to support the development of a local sulphur products industry, including enhancing the existing ammonia and urea industry, with a new generation of advanced fertilisers.
