Heavy Oil Project
13-06-2020
In 2009, the oil sector began implementing the first phase of the heavy oil project, which included the launch of a pilot project to pump successive steam in 2010, in addition to testing the productivity of horizontal wells in the South Al-Raqa field in 2011 and completing exploration and drilling operations that led to the exploration of the Lower Persia area in the Umm Al-Naqqa field in 2014. The first phase of the project was completed in 2014. The project also includes a $842 million pipeline construction business package, which, when completed, will reach a total length of about 162 kilometers. Heavy crude will be transferred from the main processing facility to the southern storage tank complex in Ahmadi. "Once crude reaches the complex, the oil sector will have the option of pumping it to the ongoing Al-Zour refinery in southern Kuwait." In the past years and up to 2019, 86% of the construction work on the South Al-Raqa Heavy Oil Production Facility project was completed, with about 930 wells in the field completed and ready for operation. The oil sector's economic objectives in implementing the first phase of the Heavy Oil Project are to achieve a specific set of points, namely: reaching the production of about 60,000 barrels per day of heavy oil by the end of 2019. The discovery of large reserves of heavy oil in northern Kuwait, specifically in southern Raqqa. "Develop the productivity of heavy oil, to form a massive resource base for the state of Kuwait." The most modern exploration and production technology (smart use of technology) systems for well development in the Kuwaiti oil sector. A future where feasible and achievable production goals are profitable and grounded is to be planned.
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