Oxy participates in three offshore projects in Qatar: at Idd El Shargi North Dome (ISND), located approximately 50 miles east of the Qatar peninsula; Idd El Shargi South Dome (ISSD), about 15 miles south of ISND; and Al Rayyan (Block 12), located northeast of the Qatar peninsula. For nearly two decades, Oxy has worked in close cooperation with Qatar Petroleum to develop and operate offshore oilfields.

After assuming operation of ISND in 1994, Oxy increased production through extensive horizontal drilling, waterflooding and multilateral production. We continue to maximize recovery rates and add new reserves through state-of-the-art reservoir characterization processes and technical development programs. In 2005, we added a major new processing facility to the existing PS-1 offshore complex. The project increased the available production capacity through additional facilities for gas compression, water injection, power generation and fluid separation.

Building upon this new infrastructure, Oxy is focusing on continued development of mature reservoirs, while further delineating and developing less mature reservoirs.

In addition, Oxy is a partner in the Dolphin Project, which supplies natural gas produced from wells offshore Qatar to customers in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.