Leaders of the Manifa Program team, hosting Exploration and Producing senior vice president of Saudi Aramco Abdullah S. Al-Saif at a special progress update meeting here recently, reported that the major offshore oil-development project is proceeding on schedule. Accompanying Al-Saif to the meeting was Mohammad A. Al-Juwair, general manager of Saudi Aramco's Southern Area Projects. The Manifa Program, scheduled for completion in June 2011, will produce 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Arabian Heavy crude, plus 90 million standard cubic feet (scf) of gas and 65,000 bpd of hydrocarbon condensate. Constructed in the project will be a new grassroots Central Processing Facility, which will include gas-oil separation, wet-crude handling, gas-compression, gas-conditioning, crude-oil stabilization and produced-water disposal facilities, according to a report carried by Saudi Aramco's web-site. A water-supply system will be required to meet reservoir water-injection requirements for Manifa. Several offshore oil- producing and water-injection platforms, sub-sea crude and water-injection pipelines, 27 land drill sites and 11 onshore water-injection drill sites will be constructed, all under the strictest environmental considerations. --MORE
