Abu Dhabi - The Logistics.

ADNOC and its foreign partners have built advanced logistical systems, with an extensive network of oil and gas pipelines linking the fields to export terminals and storage facilities. Pipelines have been built to supply gas to Abu Dhabi's downstream industries, power plants, etc. Storage facilities for oil products and gas liquids have been expanded. There are nine oil and gas terminals in Abu Dhabi, four located on the coast, three on islands, and two attached to offshore oilfields: Jebel Dhanna terminal serves small crude oil carriers and VLCCs of up to 280,000 dwt, with 14.93 metres draft. It has four berths about 5.6 km offshore at a depth of 18.3 metres, with ADCO having expanded its crude oil storage capacity there by 3m barrels to 8.34m barrels. Ruwais, the main industrial zone, has a 3-km oil jetty with two deep-water berths and four coastal berths, a jetty for gas liquids, and storage facilities for oil products and gas liquids. The terminal is being expanded further to handle increased production from ADCO's Bab field. Port Zayed, in Abu Dhabi city 7 km south of the main harbour, has two oil jetties for tankers of up to 20,000 dwt. Umm Al Nar has two berths for oil products serving 5,000 to 20,000 dwt tankers. Das island can serve VLCCs of up to 410,000 dwt with 24.08 metres draft and has storage tanks for 8.9m barrels of crude. The island also has a major LNG terminal. Zirku island, handling crude oil exports from Upper Zakum, has two berths to serve four tankers of up to 320,000 dwt with a max. draft of 28 metres and a loading rate of 15,000 t/h. Its oil and gas handling facilities are being expanded. ZADCO has installed on Zirku a new system to process gas previously flared and supply it to the Das LNG complex. This includes compressors, a dehydration unit and a 10-inch, 40 km pipeline to Das. Delma island, built at $750m in 1982, handles crude oil exports from the offshore Satah, Jarnein and Delma fields, a JV of ADNOC and JODCO of Japan. Abu Bukhoosh can serve VLCCs of up to 300,000 dwt with a draft of 22ntres, and has a 231,799 dwt storage vessel 'Eiko Maru'. Mubarraz island has one SBM for tankers of up to 250,000 dwt with a draft of 13.5 metres, and crude oil storage tanks for 1.5m barrels. Abu Dhabi Petroleum Ports Operating Co. (ADPPOC), incorporated in 1979 as a JV between ADNOC and LAMNALCO, operates the oil terminals of Jebel Dhanna, Ruwais, Umm Al Nar, Zirku island, Mubarraz island and Das island. It has diving and terminal maintenance operations. ADPPOC inspection divers maintain the oil terminals and provide underwater jetty maintenance to port users at Ruwais. It maintains navigational buoys, CBMs, SBMs, subsea pipelines and fixed moorings. It owns maintenance vessels, tugs and other vessels covering pilotage, line diving and crane barges. Abu Dhabi National Tankers Co. (ADNATCO), incorporated in 1975 as a 100% subsidiary of ADNOC, has ten tankers. Of these, two can carry both crude oil and petroleum products. The others are exclusively products carriers. ADNOC's National Gas Shipping Co. (NGSCo) has eight LNG tankers, four of 135,000 cu m each ordered from Japan and four of 137,000 cu m each, ordered from Kvaerner-Masa Yards in Finland. They carry LNG from Das island to Tokyo Electric and short-term buyers. Oasis International Leasing Co., based in Abu Dhabi, was in late 1998 structuring a lease finance package for this fleet. The deal will free up funds for ADNOC to finance its industrial expansions. National Marine Services (NMS), incorporated in 1978, is a JV of ADNOC and Jackson Marine Corp. of the US. It owns, operates and charters specialised craft to service the offshore oil industry. NMS has a base on Saadiyat island for marine operations, engineering and warehouses. The facilities at the base include crew changes, engine overhauls, mechanical and electrical repairs, replenishment of store and provisions. Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding Co. has a shipyard at Mussaffah to build and repair vessels of up to 8,000 dwt.