OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2008. The project on construction of a booster compressor station with a gas-treating unit was launched at the Nayip gas condensate deposit. Under the contract the M. I. Frunze Sumy machine building scientific-and-production association (Ukraine) – the winner of the international tender is to implement the project on turnkey construction.

The project on construction of the booster station with a gas-treating unit and a nitrogen-oxygen plant amounted to about US\\$ 40 million was launched in accordance with the Resolution of the President of Turkmenistan within the framework of the large-scale investment programme on reconstruction of the gas-collecting system in the Ojak-Nayip group of deposits in the Zaunghuz Karakum. In accordance with the programme the specialists of the Turkmengaz State Concern, the Institute of Oil and Gas, the Lebapgazchykarysh Administrative Department and the Lebapnebitgurlushyk Trust of the Turkmennebitgazgurlushyk State Concern have performed a considerable amount of the research and test, geological, engineering, construction and erecting works at the Nayip gas condensate deposit. In particular, they modernized and reconstructed four gas-collecting stations and carried out capital repairs of about 50 inactive wells, which produced hundreds of millions of cubic metres of ‘blue fuel’ and dozens of thousands of tons of hydrocarbon condensate.

Development of the Ojak-Nayip group of deposits gave start to Turkmenistan’s gas industry. This group has been developed for over 40 years. In the period hundreds of millions of cubic metres of natural fuel were extracted from their depths that caused decrease in formation pressure. Therefore, under the field development programme a booster station is to be constructed and put into operation that will enable to increase gas and gas condensate production at the project completion phase through maintaining formation pressure.

According to the Lebapgazchykarysh Administrative Department, the station will be quipped with two high-powered compressor units and other up-to-date equipment. The capacity of each unit is 4.5 million cubic metres a day. Thus, the booster station will increase formation pressure up to 40 kilograms. It will service 20 pools in four deposits located in a radius of Nayip.

The large-scale projects implemented in the country’s oldest gas producing region will enable to meet the needs of national gas industry in raw materials for many years ahead as well as to increase the volume of natural gas exports. Along with implementation of the existing potential the gas condensate fields in the region – Izmail, Kerven, Babaarab are to be put into operation in the nearest future.