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Abu Dhabi Raises Crude Production Capacity Target

ExxonMobil-led consortium Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) has boosted its target for offshore Upper Zakum oil field production capacity from 750,000 b/d by 2015 to 900,000 b/d, MEES learns. National Marine Dredging, which is 40% owned by the Abu Dhabi government, is building four artificial islands as part of the project. It is on schedule to complete them by the year-end. A petroleum engineer says that once the islands are in...