Turning a Drain into a Resource: the MOD Water Treatment Plant Project

The availability of water supply sources for water injection strongly influences achieving Southern Iraq Oilfields development targets and it is representing a key challenge to both SOC and Internation Oil Companies to meet their common objectives. eni Iraq B.V., as Lead Contractor of the Consortium for the development of a giant oilfield, has evaluated different alternatives of water supply to ensure the availability of the right quantities of water at the right time. The evaluation carried out and the required assessment have been performed along with the Field Operating Division and in cooperation with South Oil Company (SOC). The outcomes of such evaluation led to identify the Main Outfall Drain (MOD) as a suitable raw water source that would cover part of the water needs to unlock the potentiality of and support the development of the field.