Khormala Oil Field
KAR is the first local Iraqi company to enter the field of oil projects in Iraq, when it signed a contract with the Iraqi Oil Projects Company (SCOP) in 2004 to implement the Khormala oil field project, located between Erbil and Kirkuk at a cost of $135 million, in association with the Turkish AVARASIA Company and the British DPS Company. The work included design, manufacture and supply of equipment, place, electrical system, precision tools, and control of the field.
The project was implemented to the highest standards, by supplying equipment and machinery required by the field from globally well-known origins. In 2008, the Ministry of Natural Resources in KRG requested KAR Company to implement the construction, development, and operation of the Khormala field.
The Khormala oil project is considered one of KAR’s strategic oil projects that has been designed, supplied, and operated in order to achieve its objectives, including extracting specified oil quantities, conducting necessary operations, refining, and exporting oil in accordance with international engineering standards.
The project started in the last quarter of 2008 by the company’s local cadres of engineers and experienced technicians. The first stage was completed in July 2009 when it produced 20,000 barrels per day to supply the Erbil Refinery. Following the completion of another stage in October 2010, the production level reached 40,000 barrels per day leading to the current production of 100,000 barrels per day. Expansion in Khormala is still continuing so as to raise the capacity to more than 200,000 barrels per day by drilling 13 new oil wells in two northern stations plus a central station and the construction of another new central station (CPS2) along the lines of station (CPS1), 2.5 km northwest.
COMPONENTS OF THE PROJECT
The Project consists of the following:
The First Main Station (CPS 1)
This is the primary treatment station used to treat crude oil received from substations across the transferring pipelines to separate water and gas, and to treat humid-oil to be suitable for refining and exporting. The station contains oil tanks, industrial water tanks, administrative and service buildings, power and control premises, a pumping station to supply crude oil to the refinery and
export terminal, separators, turbo-generators, as well as piping nets (for oil and gas, water, fire, and drainage), trenches and shelves for power and control cables, and precision tools.
The Second Main Station (CPS 2)
This is the primary treatment station used to treat crude oil received from substations across the transferring pipelines to separate water and gas and treat humid oil to be suitable for refining and exporting. The station contains oil tanks, industrial water tanks, administrative, and service buildings, power and control premises, a pumping station to supply crude oil to the refinery and export terminal, separators, turbo-generators, as well as piping nets (for oil and gas, water, fire, and drainage), trenches and shelves for power and control cables, and
precision tools.