Xodus Group has been pivotal to the development planning success of the multi-billion dollar Golshan and Firdowsi gas fields in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, 180km southeast of Bushehr, Iran.
The mega-project is being developed in a joint venture that has been touted as Iran’s largest ever energy contract, between National Iranian Oil Company subsidiary Pars Oil and Gas Company, and SKS Ventures' subsidiary Petrofield.
The Golshan Gas Field Development is intended to produce a sustainable potential of 2 Bcfd of gas to feed a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant located near Bandar Dayyer, which will be owned and operated by Petrofield.
Xodus Group was contracted to complete a master development plan for the project, providing the key technical input for the Golshan and Firdowsi Service Contract.
Xodus Group executive director, Matthew Rawlings said the company had coordinated all aspects of the master development plan assessment and generation, including geoscience, reservoir engineering and planning, well engineering, facilities and environmental assessment.
“We completed the master development plan in a fraction of the time normally seen on similar Iranian developments, Mr Rawlings said.
“Our rapid assessment of the project and delivery of the plan allowed Petrofield to sign the long-term service contract for the upstream sections of the fields after only
five months.
“We defined the various development areas for the project, as well as their associated sensitivities, and integrated sub-surface and surface disciplines to optimise the development plan and cost,” he said.
As well as expediting the delivery date and optimising the costs for the development plan, the Xodus team added further value to the project by integrating the surface facilities with an environmental assessment to address issues related to the onshore location of the LNG plant.
The Golshan field holds between 42 and 56 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of in-place gas, while the Firdowsi field has estimated in-situ gas reserves of 10 tcf.
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