Estate Service Asset - PDO

Petroleum Development Oman
Estate Services Asset
Environmental Assessment
2002 Review and Update
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Petroleum Development Oman
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is the largest petroleum exploration and
production (E&P) company in the Sultanate of Oman, with over 113,550 km 2 of
concession area, covering most of the central and southern parts of the Sultanate. The
geographical map of PDO’s concession area is shown in Figure 1.1. Presently, PDO's
concession area is divided into two main administrative assets viz., North Oman and
South Oman. The production assets within North Oman include Fahud, Lekhwair,
Yibal and Qarn Alam, and those within South Oman include Bahja, Nimr (including
Rima) and Marmul. The crude oil export facilities and the administrative head
quarters are located on the coast in Mina Al Fahal.
Currently PDO operates from about a hundred fields and has 2,454 oil producing
wells and 72 gas producing wells. The total production of crude oil currently is about
843,490 barrels per day, and that of associated gas is 44 million Sm 3 per day. A
network of 9,300 km of pipelines, 28 gathering stations and 18 production stations
feed the produced crude oil into the main storage facility located at Mina Al Fahal
near Muscat (at Muscat coastal area), from where the oil is loaded into tankers
moored offshore. The produced gas is partly utilised within the assets and the rest
processed in three gas stabilisation stations (located in Yibal, Saih Rawl and Saih
Nihayda) and then exported. The asset-wise break-up for land area, crude oil
production, gas production and production water is presented in Table 1.1 below for
the current year (2002).
Production Asset
Table 1.1: Description of Production Assets in PDO
Land Area
(km 2 )
Crude Oil
Production
(m 3 /d average)
Gas
Production
(10 3 x Sm 3 /d
average)
Produced
Water
(m 3 /d average)
Fahud 11,580 14,670 5,007 11,239
Lekhwair Asset 3,560 14,601 1,550 21,977
Yibal Asset
(Including Gas Asset) 5,830 31,134 31,995 154,970
Qarn Alam Asset 18,900 14,462 3,084 67,255
Bahja Asset 30,560 12,347 550 27,050
Nimr Asset
(Including Rima and Al Noor) 16,160 35,669 780 313,105
Marmul Asset 26,960 11,221 900 41,937
Total for PDO’s Concession
Area
113,550 134,104 43,866 637,533
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