On 14 November 2018, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced new investment of US$ 1.4 billion (AED 5.1 billion) to fast-track and significantly expand its planned Bu Hasa oil field upgrade to increase its productive capacity to 650,000 barrels a day (bo/d). ADNOC Onshore forerunner Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco) had originally launched a more modest development plan for the super-giant field within the ADNOC Onshore Concession during early 2016, which intended to raise sustainable oil production from 540,000 barrels of oil a day (bo/d) to 570,000 bo/d by 2024. Front end engineering and design (FEED) studies completed by CH2M Hill in 2017 called for the upgrading of existing flow lines, construction of two additional compressor trains and an expanded water injection network. Tecnicas Reunidas SA is engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project, with Target Engineering Construction its primary subcontractor.     The multi-billion barrel Bu Hasa field was brought onstream in May 1964 at a rate of 115,000 barrels of oil a day (bo/d) and currently produces in excess of 500,000 bo/d. It is the largest onshore producing field in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), so current development programmes are specifically intended to prolong its plateau production rate and maximise ultimate oil recovery. It produces oil from multiple, well established Jurassic and Cretaceous reservoirs, in addition to Permo-Triassic gas.        Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) launched a new unified brand in October 2017, bringing together all its subsidiary companies under one common identity to highlight the scale of its business and size of its contribution to the national economy. As a result, the name change from Adco to ADNOC Onshore was adopted with immediate effect.        Improved recovery techniques began to be employed at Bu Hasa during the 1970s.       Discovery well Murban 12 (later renamed Bu Hasa 12), was drilled in 1962 at the crestal position on the Bu Hasa structure, which was at that time was considered to be a southern extension of the Bab field.       Gravity and magnetic surveys conducted during the 1950s provided initial indications of the presence of the Bu Hasa structure, which was subsequently seismically mapped in the early 1960s.        Bu Hasa is a north-south trending, broad anticline developed over deep seated Cambrian salt movement.      The ADNOC Onshore Concession encompasses a number of developed and undeveloped hydrocarbon accumulations. Total is Asset Leader for the Bu Hasa, Sahil, Asab, Shah, Qusahwira and Mender oil fields. ADNOC Onshore partners are ADNOC (60%), Total (10%), BP (10%), CNPC (8%), INPEX (5%) NPIC (4%), GS (3%).Â CEFC China Energy Company Limited (CEFC China) was replaced in the onshore concession by North Petroleum International Company Limited (NPIC), a subsidiary of China ZhenHua Oil Company Limited (ZhenHua) in December 2018.
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