In a launch despatched to Rigzone on Wednesday by the ADNOC staff, ADNOC introduced a Last Funding Resolution (FID) for the SARB Deep Gasoline Improvement.
The SARB Deep Gasoline Improvement is described by ADNOC within the launch as “a strategic venture inside the Ghasha Concession positioned offshore of Abu Dhabi”. The event will ship 200 million commonplace cubic ft per day of fuel earlier than the top of the last decade, in accordance with ADNOC, which highlighted within the launch that that is sufficient vitality to energy greater than 300,000 properties day by day.
“This technically superior venture will embed superior applied sciences and synthetic intelligence (AI) and shall be operated remotely from Arzanah Island, leveraging present infrastructure to maximise effectivity and improve security,” ADNOC famous within the launch.
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The venture, which is located 75 miles offshore Abu Dhabi, includes a brand new offshore platform with 4 fuel manufacturing wells which hook up with Das Island, the discharge highlighted. From there, fuel shall be tied into ADNOC Gasoline amenities for upstream remedy, “maximizing the mixing with different ADNOC initiatives”, ADNOC identified.
“We’re happy to verify the ultimate funding resolution for the SARB Deep Gasoline Improvement,” ADNOC Upstream CEO Musabbeh Al Kaabi stated within the launch.
“This strategic venture inside the Ghasha Concession reinforces the progress we’re making to totally unlock Abu Dhabi’s world-class fuel sources, supporting UAE fuel self-sufficiency and strengthening the nation’s position as a dependable exporter to worldwide markets,” Al Kaabi added.
“The event will leverage superior applied sciences and AI and maximizes synergies throughout ADNOC’s offshore infrastructure, unlocking efficiencies and worth,” Al Kaabi continued.
ADNOC didn’t reveal the SARB Deep Gasoline Improvement venture’s worth within the launch. Rigzone has requested the corporate to verify the venture’s worth. On the time of writing, ADNOC has not responded to Rigzone.
In an announcement posted on its web site in July 2024, ADNOC introduced that its SARB area had achieved a 25 % enhance in manufacturing capability “by the implementation of industry-leading superior digital applied sciences”.
“The rise at SARB area, to a complete of 140,000 barrels per day, helps ADNOC’s goal to extend its manufacturing capability to 5 million barrels of oil per day by 2027,” ADNOC stated in that assertion.
“The digital options applied onsite at SARB enable the sphere to be operated remotely from Zirku island, 20 km [12 miles] away,” it added.
“Distant monitoring, good nicely operations, and manufacturing administration applied sciences are built-in on the distant management heart for optimized real-time decision-making. This has enabled the accelerated development in area capability with decreased prices and emissions,” it continued.
“The sector’s digitalization will allow the deployment of extra AI options to additional improve and optimize operations,” ADNOC went on to state.
ADNOC highlighted in that assertion that “the applied sciences which can be deployed at SARB area embody instruments developed by AIQ”.
“AIQ options DrillRep and OptiDrill course of information from rigs and wells on the area, enhancing drilling effectivity and optimization,” ADNOC stated within the assertion.
“By using day by day drilling information studies and rig sensor information, AIQ’s know-how helps drilling operations with the mandatory insights and actions to optimize the drilling course of,” it added.
On this assertion, Abdulmunim Saif Al Kindy, ADNOC Upstream Govt Director on the time, stated, “AI and digitalization are on the coronary heart of ADNOC’s good development technique to assist responsibly meet the world’s rising vitality demand”.
“By deploying industry-leading applied sciences at SARB area, we now have elevated manufacturing capability whereas enhancing the security, sustainability and effectivity of our operations, strengthening ADNOC’s place as one of many world’s lowest-cost and least carbon intensive vitality producers,” he added.
An announcement posted on ADNOC’s website in November final yr introduced that ADNOC’s board had accredited the institution of ADNOC Ghasha, “a brand new working firm for the Ghasha Concession which incorporates the Hail, Ghasha, Dalma, SARB, and Nasr fields”.
That assertion famous that the concession is about to supply 1.8 billion commonplace cubic ft of fuel and 150,000 barrels per day of oil and condensates.
In one other assertion posted on its website in December 2025, ADNOC introduced the signing of a “landmark structured financing transaction of as much as $11 billion … to monetize Hail and Ghasha’s midstream future fuel manufacturing”.
In that assertion, ADNOC described the non-recourse financing transaction as distinctive for an vitality venture of this scale and complexity, including that it permits ADNOC “to appreciate upfront worth for its merchandise at aggressive charges”.
“Along with offering fast entry to capital, the financing construction introduces an revolutionary industrial mannequin that ring-fences midstream processing amenities and operations, which permits ADNOC and its companions to boost low-cost funding whereas retaining strategic and operational management of the belongings,” ADNOC stated in that assertion.
“This financing transaction is the newest in a collection of ADNOC-led pioneering infrastructure improvement partnerships which were executed over the previous decade,” it added.
In its newest launch, ADNOC describes itself as a number one diversified vitality and petrochemicals group wholly owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The corporate states in that launch that its goal is to “maximize the worth of the Emirate’s huge hydrocarbon reserves by accountable and sustainable exploration and manufacturing to help the United Arab Emirates’ financial development and diversification”.
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