Ebla Gas Facility

Discipline: Front-End Engineering

Client: Petro-Canada (Palmyra) BV

Location: Central Syria

Front End Engineering Design of gas gathering system, pipelines and gas treatment/LPG extraction plant. Design, tendering & award of long lead packages. Preparation of ITT package for subsequent EPCC.

The ode Scope of Work consisted of project management & project control services, all engineering from the wellheads via the gas gathering station and gas treatment plant through to export, including all hydrocarbon carrying/ produced water injection (1x4", 5km) and raw water pipelines (2x4", 5km).
The total man-hours for the FEED scope was 70,500 hours.

The work entailed:

• process selections & design of gas facilities, including LPG extraction, by either refrigeration, or turbo-expander process
• flow assurance design of well flowlines and pipeline, which included line size selection and slug catcher sizing & configuration 
• materials selection for all facilities & equipment
• site selection of GGS/GTP and route selection for flowlines & pipeline
• All plant layouts and infrastructure & amenities and construction requirements
• civil buildings & preparatory works design
• mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & control and telecommunications design of complete plant & systems
• full HSE scope; including HAZID, HAZOP & SIL analysis. 
• preparation of long lead item requisitions and ITT packages, tendering, evaluation & completion of purchase orders
• Preparation of  EPCC tender package for full field development through to start-up & hand-over

General design premise:

• gas production 80 MMscfd (DCQ), peak 96 MMscfd
• max. oil production 640 m3/d (4000 bbl/d)
• max. total production (oil and water) 720 m3/d (4530 bbl/d)
• max. water production   400 m3/d (2515 bbl/d)