Adnoc Offshore aims to raise the oil production potential of the Upper Zakum concession to 1.2 million b/d through this major output increment projectAdnoc Offshore is preparing to award the main contract for a project to increase the oil production potential of Abu Dhabi’s largest producing oil asset – the Upper Zakum offshore field – to 1.2 million barrels a day (b/d).  UAE-based Target Engineering Construction Company is in line to win the contract, which is known as UZ1000, according to sources.The value of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the UZ1000 project is estimated to be $700m.The sources added that Adnoc Offshore, the offshore oil and gas-producing subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc Group), is expected to award the contract in January.The main scope of the project involves EPC of several surface facilities and plants at the Upper Zakum offshore development’s four main artificial islands of Al-Ghallan, Umm al-Anbar, Ettouk and Asseifiya – also known as Central Island, West Island, North Island and South Island, respectively.The following contractors, among others, are understood to have submitted bids for the Upper Zakum oil production increment project:Petrofac (UK)Target Engineering Construction Company (UAE)Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)Adnoc Offshore issued the main tender for the Upper Zakum offshore oil field production increment scheme to contractors in late February this year.  (ICE DUBAI)

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