Committed to energetic sustainability
Jul 2017 | Al Mazroui
Gro Harlem Brundtland, the reputed Norwegian politician who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway, a traditional oil & gas country, was saying that "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
With the same thoughts, but this time from Middle-East, UAE, Habshan Trading Company (HTC), one of our most appreciated oil & gas companies at the level of ADNOC Group of Companies (yearly awarded as part of their short-listed top 10 suppliers), recently won a long disputed tender standing from early 2013 – “Extension Of Gasco Buhasa Plant By Adding 3rd New Centrifugal Instrument Air Compressor And Air Dryer Package”.
The project will be carried on together with FS-Elliott USA, a leading manufacturer of oil-free, centrifugal compressors with sales, service, and manufacturing locations around the world. They are exclusively represented in the UAE by Habshan Trading Company (HTC).
Bu Hasa, located 84 kilometers north-west of Abu Dhabi Islands, was the first GASCO NGL Extraction Plant to be commissioned in 1981. The project has been always mentioned in GASCO Sustainability Reports as part of their policies, being in consensus with the international policy and commitment for a sustainable energy and in keeping with the objective of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy on the domestic market in UAE.
Few technical insights: The Bu Hasa NGL extraction plant has two trains with a total processing capacity of 540 MMSCFD. It receives associated gas from the neighbouring Bu Hasa oil field in the central desert (50 Kilometers from Habshan – Bab Gas Complex and 175 KM from Abu Dhabi city) operated by ADCO.
It extracts NGL from rich sour gas and sends lean gas to ADCO gas injection compression facilities (GIP), with the surplus gas from the GIP being routed to Habshan for injection and the balance into the pipeline network for distribution.
NGL is also transported to Ruwais along for fractionation to produce Ethane, Propane, Butane and Paraffinic Naphtha. In addition, Buhasa exports about 250 MMSCFD of sales gas to the nearby ADCO Gas Injection Plant (GIP).