Review of Project Nominated for CSLF Recognition:

Al Reyadah CCUS Project

Arafat Al Yafei - Abu Dhabi Carbon Capture
Company - Al Reyadah
United Arab Emirates
1st May 2017

Projects Interaction & Review Team (PIRT)

 Al Reyadah - Abu Dhabi CCUS Project

Al Reyadah is a pioneering
initiative and a Knowledge Hub
for Abu Dhabi in CCUS
Technology, and it is a working
platform for future CCUS Projects

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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 Al Reyadah Combating Global Warming &
Abu Dhabi’s Sustainability

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 Project Objective

1) Reduce Carbon Footprint of Abu Dhabi

2) Enhance Oil Recovery in Subsurface Reservoirs

3) Liberate critically important Natural Gas used in Oil

fields for Pressure Maintenance

4) Operate a Commercially Self-Sustaining CCUS Facility

which Captures Flue Gas CO2 from a Steel Plant,
processes to the required Specification, Pressurizes
and delivers to Oil fields for Injection for CO2-EOR
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 Al Reyadah - Abu Dhabi Carbon Capture Company
Phase-I: Emirates Steel

Al Reyadah: ME’s 1st Company mandated to develop Commercial Scale CCUS Projects

Enhance Oil/Gas Production with CO2-EOR, while extending Abu Dhabi’s Oil Fields Life
Liberate Natural Gas for Power Generation
Contribute to Reducing UAE’s Carbon Emissions
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 Al Reyadah Mandate
Al Reyadah is a new ADNOC OPCO specialized in CO2 Supply
Mandate:
• To manage the CO2 supply to both ADNOC’s Onshore & Offshore assets for CO2-EOR
requirements
• Create a CO2 Network & Hub in order to achieve flexibility between CO2 Supply and Injection
requirements “like GASCO supplying HC Gas”
• Share learning from a pool of strategic technical advisors from an array of various specialists and
scientists including; US DoE, GASCO R&D, ADNOC R&D, Masdar Institute, PI, Khalifa
University, and various other technical institutes, organizations and major Oil/Gas Companies &
Service Providers

Vision:
To maximize profitability by a robust CO2 Master Plan to ensure ADNOC’s OPCOs CO2 EOR Pilots
& Development Plans Commitments while contributing Sales Gas to the Government’s future energy
and reducing Carbon Footprint.

Mission:
Efficiently provide OPCOs the required CO2 volumes in a timely manner and at the right location with
optimized new technologies and CO2 price
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 CO2 Phased Development Strategy in Oil Field
The strategy is to breakdown the overall objective into phased
developments/projects in order to gain experience in surface and subsurface
aspects of CO2 EOR, operations and mitigate risk.

2024

2018

2017

2009

2003

Subsurface - CO2-EOR
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 Field CO2-EOR Injection Project - 2017-Onward
 CO2 injected in an existing Onshore Development Project in the Oil/Water
Transition Zone to Enhance Oil Recovery

 Continuous CO2 Injection Rate: 24 - 40 MMscfd

 6 CO2 Injectors / 3 Oil Producers / 3 Observers
 Line drive pattern / Well spacing 750m Wells Orientation

Future CO2
Future CO2 Expansion -3
Expansion- 2

Onshore Field Future CO2 Expansion

1st CO2 Pilot in

middle east

Subsurface - CO2-EOR 8
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 CO2-EOR Project - RMP

Times Laps Temp. WH&DH Critical

CO2 Analyzer Corrosion Log
Saturation PLT/DTS Noise Gages metering Coring
/WHS Caliper
logs logging (Pressure) iField
Track CO2 Miscible Front (Reservoir)
Monitor Saturation Changes (Reservoir)

Monitor CO2 Production (Surface)

Quantify Areal/Vertical Sweep Eff. (Reservoir)
Measure residual oil saturation (Reservoir)
Down Hole Production/Injection Perf. (Well Bore)
Monitor Corrosion (Well Bore)
Identify Asfalten+Scale Deposition (Well Bore)
Identify Formation Damage (Well Bore)
Monitor Well Injectivity (Well Bore)
Monitor Well Prod. Perf. (Surface and Downhole)
Monitor CO2 Purity (Surface)

Intelligent Asset Operations Model (IAOM) will continue to be implemented, which provides full
monitoring in real time and control of all wellheads and CPP from the control room

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Subsurface - CO2-EOR
 CO2-EOR Project - Production/Injection

Project Oil Rate Mbd CO2 Inj. Rate MMscfd

Planed Continuous CO2 10-12 24/40

CO2 Sequestration:
~>400 BSCF Volume of CO2
will be sequestrated into
the reservoir by 2060

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Subsurface - CO2-EOR
 CO2 Dehydration & Compression Facility

ESNAAD

CO2 Dehydration & ESI-1

Compression Facilities

ESI-2

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 Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) Process

CO2 is generated by Process of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)

 Methane Gas is reformed to a H2 & CO Syn Gas

 Iron Ore (Fe2O3) is reduced to Iron (Fe) in reactor, producing CO2 & H2O waste
 CO2 is removed via a traditional MEA Amine Absorption System
 CO2 rich waste stream (>99% dry) is available for the CCS Project

Steel Making CCUS

Process Objective: Capture 800 KT/Y byproduct CO2 emitted from ES DRI plants and deliver it to ADNOC Oil Fields for use in EOR
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 CO2 Transmission Pipeline - Location

ESNAAD - Mussaffa

To ADCO Bab Field

8” X65 API5L carbon steel buried pipeline designed for 245barg with
Telecoms, SCADA, CCTV & Leak Detection running over buried fibre optics

ADCO Rumaitha Field Rumaitha Metering Station: Custody Mass Transfer Meter (Coriolis
Meter), complete with Gas Chromatograph and Moisture Analyser

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 Construction of CO2 Pipeline
 8” X65 API5L Carbon
Steel buried pipeline
designed for 245barg
 2 Block Valve Stations
for emergency venting
of CO2 in case of
pipeline leak
 Remote isolation and
maintenance
blowdown facilities
 Pipeline Safety:
CCS Facility Telecoms, SCADA, Rumaitha Section
Mussafah Section CCTV and Leak
Detection running over
buried fibre optics

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 Al Reyadah – Future Potential Growth

Abu Dhabi CCUS Project is Al Reyadah’s Phase-I (CO2 Source: Emirates Steel) of an
integrated CCUS network linking industrial emitters with oil fields. Overall CCUS network is
expected to multiply over 20 folds as a result of establishing the CCUS economic sector.
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 Al Reyadah - Abu Dhabi Carbon Carbon Capture Company
Phase-I: Emirates Steel - Highlights & Summary

• World’s 1st fully Commercial CO2 Capture Project from Steel Industry (Emirates Steel)

• Captures 800,000 T of CO2 at Emirate Steel, compresses & dehydrates and Transports
through a 43 km Pipeline for injection into ADNOC oil wells for CO2-EOR

• Operates Highest Pressure (240 bar) CO2 Pipeline in the World

• Combats Climate Change by eliminating CO2 equivalent to 170,000 cars’ emission

• Commercially Self-Sustaining project with no Governmental Subsidies

• Working towards Multiple Industrial scale CCUS Projects & CO2 Pipeline Network/Hub
aimed at reducing the carbon footprint in line with Abu Dhabi vision 2030

• Driven by the requirement to Capture CO2 from Multiple Industries & the high potential
availability of CO2 storage

• Current CO2 Supply Potential: 1.6 Bscfd (ADNOC group & industrial sources in Abu
Dhabi which is expected to increase due to the expected increase in sour gas production
and the new expected power plants)
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 Thank You

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