Khor Mor Field produces 400mmscfd gas and 15,000 bbls/day condensate
Dana Gas and its partner Crescent Petroleum, have announced achievement of a 30% increase in production capacity at the Khor Mor field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), which the companies jointly operate on behalf of Pearl Petroleum.
The expansion at the Khor Mor gas processing plant consisted of a series of plant additions and modifications to de-bottleneck throughput, raising output capacity from 305 MMscfd of natural gas to 400 MMscfd, with over 15,000 barrels per day of condensate.
The Plant, which began operating in 2008, supplies natural gas from the Khor Mor field by pipeline to power plants in the towns of Chemchemal and Erbil, and will soon supply a new plant in Bazian. The Khor Mor Plant also produces LPG and NGL, which are sold and trucked to the local markets.
The plant expansion comes online as Pearl celebrates a decade of production in the KRI. The ceremony in Erbil was attended by Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, Minister of Natural Resources Dr. Ashti Hawrami, and other senior officials,
Total investment in the Kurdistan Gas Project to date exceeds $1.4 billion with total cumulative production over 250 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), which has resulted in over $20 billion of fuel cost savings and economic benefits for the Kurdistan Region and Iraq as a whole.
“This production increase marks an important milestone as we also commemorate ten years of continuous production, and the beginning of a new chapter which will see a further investment of over $600 million over the coming few years and a more than doubling of production again,” commented Majid Jafar, CEO, Crescent Petroleum.
“We look forward to significantly growing production to meet the growing demand for gas and electricity in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq as a whole,” affirmed Dr. Patrick Allman-Ward, CEO, Dana Gas.
