Dolphin reaches full gas production target
Posted: 12 February 2008
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For the first time, Dolphin Energy Limited has achieved its target daily production rate of 2 billion standard cubic feet of gas a day (scf/day) – the equivalent of over 350,000 barrels of oil, the company has announced.
Dolphin’s initial supplies of processed natural gas from Qatar to UAE began to flow in July 2007. Since then, Dolphin Energy has been transporting gas through the company’s export pipeline in ever increasing quantities.
Production has gradually been ramped up as all elements of the company’s complex gas processing plant at Qatar’s Ras Laffan have been tested and commissioned.
The gas is produced from Dolphin’s 24 production wells offshore Qatar. It is then processed at Ras Laffan Gas Project Plant and the natural gas compressed and flowed through the 48 inch, 364 km subsea export pipeline – the longest and largest in the Middle East.
“I am proud that we’ve been able to achieve our agreed maximum daily production rate under our agreement with Qatar, whose support for this project has been essential to its success,” said Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, CEO, Dolphin Energy.
He added: “Our next target is to meet our daily target consistently, and we shall shortly be able to fulfill our gas sales agreement to supply Oman.”
Dolphin Energy has contracted to supply Oman with up to 200 million scf/day of gas in the second half of 2008. It is the culmination of a vision started nine years ago by Qatar, the UAE and Oman. |
