Karan Project
Karan Project
The Karan gas field is located offshore of the Arabian Gulf in Saudi Arabian territorial waters, in water depths of 40m (131ft) to 60m (197ft). Karan is the first nonassociated offshore gas field development – and, indeed, the Kingdom’s – and has helped to boost Saudi Arabia’s gas production.
Discovered in 2006, the Karan field has been developed to help meet the Kingdom’s demand for sales gas and industrial feedstock for water desalination and electric power generation.
The field is situated 160km (99.4mi) north of Dhahran, the headquarters of Saudi Aramco. The development was completed in 2012 ahead of schedule and under budget, reaching a full peak production capacity of 1.8 billion scfd.
The offshore infrastructure at Karan includes five wellhead platform complexes tied into the main platform.
The onshore infrastructure includes facilities for cogeneration and sulphur recovery, substations and a pipeline for transportation of gas.
Three processing trains, each with a capacity of 600mcf/d of gas are used to process the sour gas from Karan.
A 110km (68.3mi) subsea pipeline transports the gas produced at Karan to onshore processing facilities at the Khursaniyah Gas Plant.
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