UAE's Shah Gas Project Attains Full Capacity

The Shah gas project in United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reached full capacity, Reuters quoted a top official as saying.

"We have ramped up to full production, which is 1 billion cubic feet per day (bcf)," Saif Ahmed al Ghafli, chief executive of Al Hosn Gas, told reporters on the sideline of an conference in Abu Dhabi. Operations at the gas projects started earlier this year, the news agency reported Tuesday.

Al Hosn Gas is the joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), which holds a 60 percent share and Occidental Petroleum which has the other 40 percent share.

The project is designed to process approximately 1,000 MMSCFD of feed gas. The main processing facility will consist of the gas treatment facilities, Sulphur Recovery Units (SRU’s), Utilities and Off-sites (U&O) including main control room and plant buildings.

UAE plans to invest $35 billion dollars to diversify energy sources and reduce dependence on imports of natural gas to generate electricity, Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy said Sunday. He said the UAE will aim to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas from current 100 percent to 70 percent by 2020-21,