Name of Client: KOC - Kuwait Oil Company
Budget: $4.3 billion
Facility type: Steam Injection
Sector: Oil
Status: Construction
Location: Northern Kuwait
Feed: WorleyParsons
PMC: WorleyParsons
Main Contractor: CCC, Petrofac

Background
Kuwait’s Lower Fars Heavy Crude Oil Scheme is expected to be one of the largest and most ambitious upstream projects of the Middle East. With a budget estimated at $7 billion for the entire project with $4.5 billion allocated for phase 1, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) aims to collect large amounts of data and drill over 900 hundred wells to extract heavy crude oil from the Ratqa field in North Kuwait. The development has been split into phases, with phase 1 comprising two well blocks intended to reach a plateau production rate of 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) over a 10-year period from the start of operations.

Project status
February 2017: The progress of the project is slightly delayed. The first production of heavy oil is now expected in December 2018 and will be up to 10 to 15,000 bpd, but will rise to the planned 60,000 bpd about six months from the start of production.

Project scope
The project scope includes:
• Increased heavy oil output from Ratqa
• Oil central processing facility (CPF).
• Satellite stations.
• Two well blocks.
• Trunk lines.
• Steam injection facility.
• New crude oil control center.
• Production support complex.

Main pipelines include:
• 24” x 165 km carbon steel export oil pipeline from the new plant to the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery.
• 24” x 85 km carbon steel fuel pipeline from Kadma.
• 30” x 123 km RTRP pipeline from Sulaibiya.
• 30 km disposal network near the plant.

Project finance
The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is the client of the project.

Project schedule
EPC ITB - Q4-2013
Engineering & Procurement - Q1-2015
Construction - Q2-2016
Completion - Q4-2018