GASCO
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Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (GASCO) is the operating company responsible for the processing of natural and associated gas from onshore oil operations in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE .
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[edit] Ownership and Management
Incorporated in 1978 as a joint venture and being a part of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), its ownership is shared by ADNOC (68 %), Shell (15%), Total (15%), and Partex (2%). GASCO is an operating company engaged in the extraction of natural gas liquids from associated and natural gas. Associated Gas Plants at Asab, Bab and Bu tefan_ilievskiHasa are (called NGL Extraction Plants where as natural gas plants at Habshan and Asab are called Gas Plants. Common to all NGL Extraction and Gas Plants is Ruwais plant for the purpose of NGL treatment, fractionation, storage and shipping. The company is currently managed by Mohammed Sahoo.
[edit] Main Operations
Three NGL Plants Two Gas Plants One NGL fractionation plant Two Gas Injection Plants Two Gas Distribution Hubs Road tankers for transportation of Liquid Sulphur, and High pressure (40 bara) gas pipeline network including 25 Consumer Receiving Stations for supplying gas to 13 gas consumers.
[edit] History
GASCO was established following the directive of late His Highness Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, to utilise Abu Dhabi's significant resources of associated gas which had hitherto been flared during oil production operations prior to its formation. Today, the associated gas is converted into a wide range of marketable products, which are used domestically and exported all over the world with engineer khaled Fahmy
