They are blocks 1, 7 & 8, both onshore and offshore, he said at a session at the Qatar Economic Forum. But they are not in the North Field, he clarified.
The QP director said bidding was on currently for two blocks for oil and gas exploration.
He said no new developments would take place at the North Field till the reservoir study was completed there.
He said
The capacity boost will come from the development of Al Shaheen field, currently operated by Maersk.
Current gas production from the North Field is about 7bn standard cubic feet a day (cfd). This will go up to 20bn standard cfd by 2010.
Currently,
Pearl GTL, the second GTL project will be the world’s largest on completion (expected by 2010-2011).
Al-Kaabi said the proposal to supply pipeline gas to
Talking later to Gulf Times, the QP director said contractual supply of gas to the Dolphin Project would commence next month.
However, supply would be ramped up to 2bn cfd (as per the contract) gradually, he said on the sidelines of the Forum.
Al-Kaabi said QP had already begun pumping some 400mn cfd of gas to Dolphin for commissioning the pipeline and testing the gas receiving and processing facilities at Taweelah near
“The pipeline is ready but the project as a whole will be up and running only in June,” he said.
Dolphin Energy Limited (
Although the supplies were meant for utilities in the UAE,
Dolphin sources gas from
Dolphin Energy’s major strategic initiative, the Dolphin Project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from
Dolphin Energy Limited was created to develop substantial energy projects throughout the GCC and to create long-term economic wealth and new business opportunities for Gulf nationals, far into the future.
The long term customers for Dolphin gas from
All the above institutions have signed a gas supply agreement with Dolphin Energy for 25 years.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51% by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5% each by Total and Occidental Petroleum.
PIN/Gulf-Times.Com
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