State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) and the engineering contractor Spetco expect to complete the commissioning of the oil and gas facility known as Jurassic production facility 4 (JPF-4) next week.All of the final stages of this project have gone to plan and commissioning should be completed within the next seven days.The introduction of oil and gas to JPF-4 took place on 18 December, ahead of the contractual timelines.Spetco owns and operates the JPF-3 facility, which is already operational, as well as the JPF-4 facility that is being commissioned.KOC awarded the main $398m contract for JPF-4 to Kuwait-based Spetco in December 2021. China’s Jereh won a contract worth $426m for JPF-5 in the same month.The completion of commissioning of JPF-5 is expected to come at some point in the future.An official visit to the JPF-4 and JPF-5 sites took place on 18 February.During the visit, KOC chief executive Ahmad Al Eidan briefed senior officials from parent company Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on the ongoing preparations for the official launch of the company’s Jurassic production facilities.The KPC officials included the company’s chief executive Shaikh Nawaf Al Sabah.The two projects are among the largest active projects in Kuwait’s oil and gas sector, making them “an essential part of KPC’s 2040 development strategy”.KOC said the projects will help achieve Kuwait’s goal of increasing gas production and providing high-quality products to global markets.The production of light oil and other associated gas that the new facilities will produce is challenging due to the complexity of the reservoirs.The state-owned upstream operator said it had completed the mechanical construction works for the projects without any accidents or change orders.The projects are expected to provide significant economic returns for the company as well as the Kuwaiti oil sector as a whole.KOC also said the projects will allow Kuwaiti light oil to enter new markets and create domestic job opportunities.JPF-4 is being developed close to the Sabriyah field in northern Kuwait. JPF-5 is less than 10 kilometres east of JPF-4.Both facilities will test, process, treat and handle wet and sour hydrocarbon well fluids from several oil and gas fields.These include Raudhatain, Sabriyah, Northwest Raudhatain, Umm Niqa, Dhabi, Bahr, Marratt and Najmah-Sarjelu, and other formations in the Jurassic fields.Both projects are onshore surface production facilities and are being implemented on a build-own-operate basis by a contractor.Spetco and Jereh will operate and maintain the facilities for five years. KOC has the option to extend the contract at a future date.The facilities are due to operate with the capacity to produce 50,000 barrels a day (b/d) of treated sweet crude – Jurassic light oil with American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity of 40-50 degrees – and 150 million cubic feet a day of sweet and dehydrated rich gas.They will include a produced-water treatment unit, sulphur recovery unit, associated utilities and supporting systems.The scheduled project time of 780 calendar days included 720 days for design and engineering, project management, supply and procurement, construction, testing and mechanical completion of each facility.Under the terms of the contracts, commissioning, stabilisation and successful performance testing of the facility should be completed within 60 calendar days of its mechanical completion.The state upstream operator previously awarded three other Jurassic production facilities contracts.Kuwait is tapping the Jurassic carbonate reservoirs in the north to meet soaring gas consumption.KOC started gas production from its Jurassic sour gas field in May 2008 by commissioning the upstream project known as Early Production Facility 50.The Jurassic reservoirs contain a variety of hydrocarbons, ranging from oil to gas condensate with sour gas. (ICE KUWAIT)

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