Wood assessing design needs for Lower Zakum production upgrades

May 22, 2025
Wood will perform the detailed engineering design for "Package 5" of ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum Long-Term Development Phase 1 project on Das Island in the UAE.

Wood will perform the detailed engineering design for "Package 5" of ADNOC Offshore’s Lower Zakum Long-Term Development Phase 1 (LTDP1) project on Das Island in the UAE.

Target Engineering Construction Co., the project’s EPC contractor, awarded the work to Wood.

The Lower Zakum Field is 65 km northwest of Abu Dhabi.

ADNOC and its partners are looking to expand and then sustain production capacity at 450,000 bbl/d until 2035. The "Package 5" facilities will include three new oil processing trains, with separation, a desalter, dehydration, an oil stabilization system, a new seawater offshore platform and other utility facilities.

Wood’s engineering team will develop crude oil stabilization mechanisms at Das Island to support the sustained increase in production. The company will allocate more than 200 of its staff in the UAE, India and the UK for the contract.

Previously, the company worked on ADNOC’s Early Production Scheme-2 project, which was completed last year.