Chevron lets pipeline contract for Tamar field expansion

Chevron Mediterranean Ltd. has let a contract to Corinth Pipeworks SA to manufacture and supply about 155 km of 20-in. longitudinally submerged arc welded steel pipes for Tamar gas field in the Southeastern Mediterranean.

The project will connect the subsea manifold at a maximum water depth of 1,700 m to the offshore platform where gas will be processed before being transported to shore in Israel.

Pipes will be manufactured in Corinth Pipeworks’ facilities in Greece, and installation will start in 2024. Scope of supply also includes internal and external anticorrosion coating, applied at the same location as pipe manufacturing at Thisvi, Greece.

Tamar lies 90 km west of Haifa. Natural gas is extracted through five production wells and gas flows through two 140-km pipelines to the Tamar platform where most of the gas processing takes place. Gas is then transmitted via pipeline to the onshore terminal in Ashdod, and into the Israeli market through the INGL national gas pipeline with a portion exported to Jordan and Egypt. 2P reserves in the Tamar lease, after production of more than 69.3 billion cu m, is about 300 billion cu m of natural gas and 14 million bbl of condensate (OGJ Online, Sept. 2, 2021).

The contract is part of the operator's first phase to expand field production to about 1.6 bcf of natural gas.

Chevron is operator of the Tamar project with 25% interest. Partners are Mubadala Energy (22%), Isramco (28.75%), Tamar Petroleum (16.75%), Dor Gas (4%), and Everest (3.5%).