Wood bags work on ADNOC’s massive project off UAE

UK consulting and engineering firm Wood has been awarded a contract to deliver the detailed engineering design for one of the packages for ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum Long-Term Development Phase 1 project.

The contract for work on the so-called Package 5 was secured from Target Engineering, the appointed EPC contractor for this phase of the project.

Located on Das Island in the United Arab Emirates, around 65 km northwest of Abu Dhabi in the central Arabian Gulf, Lower Zakum Field is one of ADNOC’s strategically significant offshore assets.

The Long-Term Development Phase 1 project aims to expand and sustain production capacity of 450,000 barrels per day up to 2035. Under this project, Package 5 facilities will include three new oil processing trains, including separation, a desalter, dehydration, an oil stabilisation system, a new seawater offshore platform, and other related utility facilities.

Wood’s team of engineers will develop crude oil stabilisation mechanisms at Das Island, which will support the sustainable production of oil at the site until 2035.

More than 200 Wood engineers from across the UAE, India, and the UK will support this project for the next two years.

Wood has previously completed a successful front-end engineering and design scope under Lower Zakum, following its work on ADNOC’s Early Production Scheme-2 project in 2024.