Wood scopes Lower Zakum engineering design contract

Global consulting and engineering company Wood has been awarded an engineering design contract for ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum development

The scope involves detailed engineering design for ‘Package 5’ of ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum Long-Term Development Phase 1 (LTDP1) project, on the UAE’s Das Island. The contract was awarded by Target Engineering, the EPC contractor.

Located around 65 km northwest of Abu Dhabi, Lower Zakum Field is one of ADNOC’s most significant offshore assets as it seeks to meet its production target of 5mn bpd by 2027.

The LTDP1 project aims to expand sustainable production capacity to 450,000 up to 2035. ’Package 5’ facilities will include three new oil processing trains, including separation, a desalter, dehydration, oil stabilisation system, a new seawater offshore platform, and other related utility facilities. Wood will develop crude oil stabilisation mechanisms at Das Island, which will support the sustainable production of oil at the site until 2035.

Gerry Traynor, president of Eastern Hemisphere Projects at Wood, said, “The Lower Zakum long-term development is a major project in the UAE, which we are proud to work with Target Engineering on.

“Wood's experience in complex engineering design across the Middle East will support Target Engineering and ADNOC Offshore to deliver the goal of maximum energy with minimum emissions.”

He added that more than 200 Wood engineers from across the UAE, India and the UK will work on the project for the next two years. Wood currently employs over 4,000 people across the Middle East, having increased its headcount by 500 in 2024. 

Wood has previously completed a successful front-end engineering and design (FEED) scope for Lower Zakum.

ADNOC awarded US$7.5bn of EPC contracts for Packages 2, 4 and 5 of the LTDP1 Lower Zakum project earlier this year.