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CHAPTER THREE
Arab And World Developments
The main difficulties facing the project development are resulted
from the following reasons:
The fields are deep and seated below a thick salt deposit (about
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16000 feet), which limits seismic imaging and affects well
positioning and drilling.
The reservoirs are mainly carbonates, which are among the
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most complex, showing large variability, impacting ultimate
recovery and requiring more wells than in any conventional
fields. Furthermore, they are fractured, making production
behaviour difficult to forecast.
The reservoirs contain 2-6% sulphur, with some wells testing
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at significantly higher levels, which also contain corrosive
fluids, such as, H-
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S, CO2 and extremely high salinity water.
The plan of Kuwait Oil Company for developing the Jurassic
gas fields discovered in northern Kuwait includes three stages. The
company is moving forward on its implementation despite many
challenges faced to reach a production capacity of one billion cubic
feet of gas per day, as well as about 350,000 b/d of light oil and
condensates by 2015, to meet the demands of the country for electric
power generation.
2-5 Qatar
In 2012, Qatar gas signed three long-term LNG supply contracts
with Japan. The company announced in June, it will supply Japan’s
largest LNG buyer, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), with 1
million tons/year starting in 2013. It will also supply Chubu Electric
and another Japanese company Shizuoka Gas, for a minimum of
0.2 million tons/year from Qatar gas-1, starting in 2016, while in
September it agreed to supply Kansai Electric with 0.5 million tons/
year for a period of 15 years, starting in 2013.
