Wood Group has been awarded a contract to execute the detailed engineering design for ‘Package 5’ of ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum Long-Term Development Phase 1 (LTDP1) project.
This contract was granted by Target Engineering Construction, the appointed engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for this phase. The project is situated on Das Island in the UAE, approximately 65km northwest of Abu Dhabi in the Arabian Gulf.
The LTDP1 initiative seeks to enhance and maintain a production capacity of 450 thousand barrels per day through 2035.
The facilities under ‘Package 5’ will feature three new oil processing trains, including systems for separation, desalting, dehydration, and oil stabilisation. Additionally, a new seawater offshore platform and other utility facilities are planned.
Wood Group’s engineers will focus on developing crude oil stabilisation mechanisms at Das Island to support sustainable oil production until 2035.
Previously, Wood Group completed front-end engineering and design work for the Lower Zakum field as part of ADNOC’s Early Production Scheme-2 project in 2024.
Wood eastern hemisphere projects president Gerry Traynor said: “The Lower Zakum long-term development is a major project in the UAE, which we are proud to work with Target Engineering on.
“Wood’s experience in complex engineering design across the Middle East will support Target Engineering and ADNOC Offshore to deliver the goal of maximum energy with minimum emissions. More than 200 Wood engineers from across the UAE, India and the UK will support this project for the next two years.”
In the Lower Zakum field, ADNOC Offshore holds a 60% stake, with foreign partners including a consortium led by ONGC Videsh (10%), Inpex (10%), China National Petroleum Corporation (10%), Eni (5%), and TotalEnergies (5%).
The Lower Zakum LTDP-1 project is expected to be operational by the end of 2027. The scope of work has been divided into three EPC packages, which include topside facilities on G Island, offshore wellhead towers and pipelines, and developments at Das Island Terminal.
The existing five oil processing trains at Lower Zakum are scheduled for decommissioning in 2028, with new configurations set to replace them on Das Island. This includes two existing trains with a processing capacity of 110,000 barrels per day each and three new trains with a stabilisation capacity of 150,000 barrels per day.
Additional structures to be installed include three high-pressure separator trains, a high-pressure scrubber, low-pressure separator trains and scrubber, and atmospheric separator trains.
Other installations comprise crude charge pumps and heaters, cold strippers integrated with a degassing vessel, stripped crude product pumps, ejectors for cold strippers, a closed drain drum with a transfer pump, and a blow case vessel.
