Oil: The National Effort manages 90% of the work in the Rumaila field

Basra - INA

The Basra Oil Company confirmed today, Friday, that the National Effort is managing the work in the Rumaila field by up to 90%, while it explained the mechanism of work at the third isolation station. 

Director of the Northern Production Department of the Basra Oil Company, Karim Jassim, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) during his tour of the third isolation station in the Rumaila oil field: “The volume of current gas production from the station currently amounts to 80 mqmq per day, or one million standard cubic feet, while it is.

The volume of oil production is 150 thousand barrels,” noting that “the Basra Company withdraws gas from the station at a rate of up to 80%.”
Speaking about the nature of the business, he added, “There is a compression station with every isolation station, and it is operated with the production capacity allocated to it, whether it is 150 thousand barrels or less, and communication is made with the gas compression cadres to receive the gas through the pipes, and then operate the first or second phase, where It is received through pipes, the existing control system, and valves in the isolation station.”.

He explained, "Then the largest possible amount of gas is withdrawn according to the capacity as a first and second stage, and the rest is transferred to fillers (burners), after several processing operations have taken place so that the arriving oil is isolated and completely dry.".

Jassim pointed out that “most of the Rumaila field projects were completed in the 1970s, and most of the pipes were buried underground, which led to them being exposed to corrosion over time, so the switch was made to the visible pipe system for new projects by placing them on (RAK), from For ease of monitoring, treatment, maintenance, etc., it is an advanced system followed globally in the energy sector.”.

Regarding the colors of the pipes, Jassim stated that “the black ones are for water pumping, and the lead ones are for gas,” explaining that “the colors are agreed upon with the main contractor of the field.”.

He pointed out that "the work accomplished by the national effort includes approximately 85% to 90% of the operations and production operations in the isolation station and the Rumaila field in general. He carries out all the work from the wellhead until pumping and payment (posts)," stressing that "there is cooperation and communication with the administration." Olaya, the Basra Oil Company, department managers and technicians, and there is a foreign staff at each station consisting of two or three people at most.” .

Jassim pointed out that “there is an integrated control room to manage the work that takes place in the field,” noting that “its building is old, but the devices, including screens and others, are all modern and deal with electronic signals, not optical signals.”