The capital of the Emirates is forging ahead with production facility creation with international firms snapping up projects at a prolific rate.

The following is a handful of new concerns that are being initiated in Abu Dhabi's growing industry:
Bu Hasa Field
Snamprogetti, the engineering arm of ENI SPA, has won a $318.6 million engineering, procurement and construction contract for new oil facilities in Abu Dhabi's Bu Hasa field.
Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations, a unit of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, awarded the Italian firm the 1.17 billion UAE dirham ($318.6m) contract for the project that will add 730,000 barrels a day of oil production capacity at the Bu Hasa field, 200 kilometers southeast of Abu Dhabi.
Snamprogetti, which has won five ADCO contracts since 1996, will construct a new gas oil separation plant, as well as gas and water injection facilities, to handle increasing oil flows over the next 30 years, ADCO said in a statement.
The UAE, which holds 10 per cent of the world's proven oil reserves, has a production capacity of 2.8 million bpd, and has an Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries quota of 2.217 million bpd.

Huwaila Field
Abu Dhabi's ADCO has begun development work on a new onshore oil field.
The Huwaila field which lies 30 km south of the Bu Hasa field, is projected to produce up to 10,000 bpd by 2006.
Abu Dhabi-based Veco Engineering has been awarded the front-end engineering and design contract for the development of Huwaila. 'ADCO has put strategies in place to meet the stated objective, including drilling three remaining oil wells to finalize the planned development and continue monitoring the early production scheme, which started in 1996,' a senior ADCO official was quoted as saying. ADCO is 60 per cent owned by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co and 40 per cent by six international companies.

India deals
Abu Dhabi is to be an integral part of India's increased import plans. State-owned refining and marketing giant Indian Oil Corp, after losing key term suppliers Nigeria and Libya, already has firmed up 14.2 million tonnes of term crude imports for fiscal 2003-2004, a company official said July 8.
IOC has contracted to buy 4.5-million tonnes of Arab Mix from Saudi Arabia and 6-mil mt of Kuwaiti crude, the same term volumes as the last fiscal year. It will get 1.7-mil mt of Upper Zakum from Abu Dhabi, down from 2-mil mt the prior year.
Malaysia's Petronas will supply 2-mil mt of Labuan and Miri, a rollover of the previous annual contract.

Bab facilities
Japan's JGC Corp said it had won a contract worth around 11 billion yen ($94 million) from Abu Dhabi Company (ADCO) to build crude oil processing facilities for ADCO's onshore operations in Abu Dhabi.
JGC, an engineering firm, said it would design and procure equipment and materials as well as construct the facilities in Bab, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) southwest of the city of Abu Dhabi.
ADCO is expanding existing facilities in Bab to increase the plant's total crude production capacity to 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 250,000 bpd.
Earlier, JGC said it had won an $880 million contract to build an oil refinery for Oman's state-owned Sohar Refinery Co in Sohar, about 250 km northwest of Muscat.
Facilities at the refinery include a 116,000 bpd crude distillation unit and secondary units such as one for gasoline desulphurisation and another to produce liquefied petroleum gas.
JGC expects to complete the Abu Dhabi facilities by the end of 2004 while completion of the Oman refinery is set for the first half of 2006.
JGC is currently carrying out projects in Nigeria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Australia, Venezuela and other countries. 

North East Abu Dhabi project
Techno-coflexip in association with the National Petroleum Construction Co of Abu Dhabi, has been awarded by Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations, a $566-mil turnkey contract for the North East Abu Dhabi (NEAD) phase 1 project, the French company has said.
Technip-Coflexip will be the leader of the association. The contract, which does not need any third-party financing, will come into force immediately.
The new facilities are scheduled on stream during the last quarter of 2005.
The NEAD project phase 1 is aimed at increasing the oil production capacity from two fields. One is the mostly offshore al Dabb'iya field with most wells located on low-lying natural and artificial islands and interconnecting pipelines to be located in shallow water.
The other is the onshore Rumaitha field, in a desert area 50 km southwest of Abu Dhabi City.
Technip-Coflexip's scope of work include a gathering system connecting all wells through a manifolds and flowlines network, two central processing plants to remove salt and water and separate gas out of oil, interconnections between the gathering system and the two central processing plants as well as pipelines to export oil to Bab.
The plants will be monitored by a distributed control system and telecom system based on the latest technologies, Technip-Coflexip said. Under the terms of the contract, Technip-Coflexip/NPCC will supply engineering, procurement, construction and pre-commissioning as well as technical assistance to ADCO for start-up.
The front end engineering design or FEED for the project had been previously completed by Technip-Coflexip under a separate contract, it has been reported.