The Middle East’s Dana Gas started production at its Zora gas field last month, offshore the Sharjah coastline, United Arab Emirates.
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Zora is located in the Sharjah Western offshore concession, which covers 1000sq km.
Production started in January and process optimization is currently underway, the company said in its full year 2015 report.
The field, which Dana has invested US$150 million (AED550 million), is expected to achieve a flow rate of 40 MMcft/d. Natural gas from the Zora gas field will be sold for use in power generation in the domestic market, thus delivering a clean source of energy to the Emirate of Sharjah, as well as cost savings from replacing some of the current feedstock that include diesel fuel, Dana Gas said.The Zora field 2P reserves remained steady at 31 MMboe.
The Zora field comprises a tilted fault block structure, which straddles the Sharjah / Ajman territorial boundary. The structure has a closure of some 25sq km and is fault and dip closed.
The gas is being transported through a subsea pipeline to a newly built onshore gas processing facility by Dana Gas located in the Hamriyah Free Zone in Sharjah.
The field development plan is based upon the efficient and effective draining of reserves from the surface location of the two wells by drilling horizontal sections to intersect the Thamama reservoir. The plan includes the installation of a wellhead facility, lateral drilling in the wells to maximize the wellbore contact with the reservoir and tie back of these wells to the wellhead facility.
In 2015, Dana Gas completed the construction of the platform, plant and pipeline for the Zora gas field.
The field was originally discovered in 1979 with the drilling of the Sharjah-1 well which tested gas from two separate intervals at a combined rate of up to 14 MMcft/d in the Thamama reservoir. Following this the Sharjah-2 well, drilled in 1999, tested gas up to a maximum flow rate of 40 MMcft/d.
Dana Gas is the operator of Zora with a 100% interest, and will manage the field, gas sales and purchase agreements.
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