Ils veulent produire du pétrole lourd du champs de Ratqa-Nord, et pour cela ils vont investir 4.3 milliards de $.
Une premiére phase de 60 000 b/j devrait étre opérationelle en 2017-2018, et davantage aprés.
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/1 ... il_ProjectKuwait to Award $4.3B Contract this Year for Heavy Oil Project
rigzone news April 15, 2014
Kuwait plans to award a 1.2 billion dinar ($4.3 billion) contract later this year for the first phase of a project to produce heavy oil at its northern Ratqa field, the head of state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) said.
The project is part of efforts to meet Kuwait's target of producing 4 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) by 2020. The OPEC member currently produces around 3 million bpd and exports around two-thirds.
The deadline for bids for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract is May 11, but this may be extended if companies continue to have queries, KOC Chief Executive Hashem Hashem told reporters on the sidelines of an oil conference on Tuesday.
"This is (for) facilities needed to develop heavy oil, to be able to produce up to 60,000 (bpd)," he said of the planned first phase of the project at Kuwait's northern Ratqa field.
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The 60,000 bpd should be online by 2017 or 2018, he told the conference. By 2020, the production should be 120,000 bpd and KOC will evaluate whether it needs to raise this to 270,000 bpd beyond that date, he said.
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