UAE's Shah Gas Project to Reach Full Capacity This Year

United Arab Emirates’ Shah Gas Project is expected to start operating at full capacity in the second quarter this year, a company official told news agency Reuters.

“Initial production from the field started in January and currently we are in the process of ramping up production to full capacity, which we expect to achieve during quarter two,” Saif Ahmed al Ghafli, chief executive of Al Hosn Gas, told an industry conference in Abu Dhabi.

Al Hosn Gas is the joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), which holds a 60 percent share and U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum which has the other 40 percent share.

In January the chief executive of Adnoc said the project was expected to reach full capacity by end-2015, Reuters reported.

The project will be designed to process approximately 1,000 MMSCFD of feed gas. The main processing facility will consist of the gas treatment facilities, Sulphur Recovery Units (SRU’s), Utilities and Off-sites (U&O) including state of the art main control room and plant buildings.