Majnoon Oil Field

Summary Information

+++ Description

Majnoon is one of the world's largest oil fields, estimated by the Iraqi government to hold about 38 billion barrels of oil.
An early production system comprising two trains each with capacity for 50,000 barrels of oil per day
The Commercial Production Project is underway
The consortium bid a plateau production of 1.8 million barrels of oil per day, up from a previous level of approximately 45,000 barrels of oil per day.

+++ Contractors

**Petrofac:** Providing engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction management services for the development of a new early production system
**Wood Group-CCC :** Provision of skilled resources, tools, services and test equipment to assist the start-up, commissioning and testing of production facilities
**Foster Wheeler / Kentz:** Concept selection, front-end engineering design, detailed design and contract and procurement services
**Alderley:** Provision of a Crude Oil metering system

+++ History

2008 - Shell signed a preliminary agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a gas gathering project
2009 - The field was put up for tender in the second licensing round
2011 - Petrofac awarded contract for early production system
2013 - Wood Group-CCC awarded commissioning contract
2013 - First production launched

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