TotalEnergies has greenlighted full-field development of the Ratawi oil field in southern Iraq and construction of a related seawater supply facility. The project marks the final phase of Baghdad’s $27-billion Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP), aimed at boosting electricity generation with captured flare gas.
TotalEnergies Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné inked GGIP’s most recent major contracts at a meeting in Baghdad on 14 September (photo above).
“We are delighted today to award the two final contracts of the Gas Growth Integrated Project,” Pouyanné said in a press statement, adding that he could also “confirm that the first phase of the associated gas, oil, and solar projects will startup as soon as early 2026.”
TotalEnergies leads the GGIP with a 45% operator interest, together with partners Basra Oil Company (30%) and QatarEnergy (25%).
EPC Awards Decided
Turkish mega builder ENKA will perform engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services under a contract with TotalEnergies EP Ratawi Hub for the central processing facility (Associated Gas Upstream Project [AGUP2]) envisaged in Phase 2.
The AGUP2 facility will raise Ratawi’s production to 210,000 B/D starting in 2028 without any routine flaring of associated gas, ENKA said in a news release.
Launched in September 2023, Phase 1 of the Ratawi redevelopment is projected to come onstream in early 2026 with an initial production increase of up to 120,000 B/D.
Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction confirmed in multiple reports in Korean media it received a $3.16-billion EPC award for GGIP’s Common Seawater Supply Project (CSSP).
The CSSP will be built near the coastal town of Um Qasr and will process and transport 5 million B/D to main oil fields in southern Iraq.
By using treated seawater to maintain well pressure, fresh water currently taken from the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers will be conserved, making 250,000 m3/D of fresh water available for irrigation and local agricultural needs.
The project overall covers not only redevelopment of the Ratawi field but also construction of a gas processing plant, the Gas Midstream Project, which by 2027 is targeted to grow its recovery rate to 300 MMcf/D and generate 1.5 GW of power. A 1-GW solar farm is also under construction.
GMP is intended to process 160 MMcf/D of associated gas, including flare gas from two other oil fields in the area, Majnoon and West Qurna.
In January TotalEnergies broke ground on the $250-million ArtawiGas25 processing project (also a part of GGIP) which will capture up to 50 MMcf/D of flared gas from Ratawi when it starts up at the end of this year.
ArtawiGas25’s modular plant design is intended for replication across other Iraqi oil fields, according to TotalEnergies.
