Akkas Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Kogas
- Country: Iraq
- Location: north west of Anbar governorate nearby the Syrian border
- Production start:
- Partners:
- Type: Gas
- Estimated Reserves: 5.6 billion cubic feet
- Production Volume:
- Planned production peak of 400 million cubic meters per day
Description
- Akkaz is in the north west of Anbar governorate nearby the Syrian border (50 kilometers long and 18 kilometers wide) discovered in 1992 with estimated reserve of 5, 6 billion cubic feet contains 6 wells drilled in Al-Khabour reservoir and produces 50 cubic meters per day
- The design capacity of the gas processing facilities is 110 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of product gas.
- The processing facility will include a gas gathering station, gas and condensate separation, a gas sweetening and regeneration unit and a gas dehydration and regeneration unit.
Contractors
- Mott MacDonald: Detailed engineering and procurement support
- Daewoo E&C: Central processing facility and gathering system for non-associated gas. This part of the project was partially funded by the Export-Import Bank of Korea
History
- 1992 - The field was discovered
- 2009 - The field was offered in the first licencing round but the one bidding consortium did not meet the payment terms
- 2010 - KMG EP, together with KOGAS, won a tender for development of Iraq’s Akkas gas field
- 2010 - Mott MacDonald awarded detailed engineering
- 2011 - KMG EP withdraws from the project
- 2013 - Daewoo E&C awarded major CPF contract
Geology
Links
- First Iraqi Petroleum Licensing Round
- Mott MacDonald appointed on Iraq gas fields
- USD 117 Million Guarantee Provided for Iraq’s Akkas Gas Field Project
- KMG EP withdraws from the negotiation process on the Akkas Field Development project in Iraq
- Daewoo E&C wins US$708mn order from Iraq
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