Reolaction of Dukhan Field Civil Facilities Using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Abstract

Dukhan field is the only onshore oil field in Qatar. It is in the southwest of the state. The field's size is around 80 km x 8 km. the field contains many civil facilities such as an accommodation compound, Qatar Petroleum office building, Dukhan Beach Club, and Dukhan markets area. This project aims to relocate these buildings to ensure safety for the employees (Dukhan residents), reduce drilling costs, and facilitate future operations. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is one of the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques where criteria and alternatives are prioritized based on a specific judgment which builds on a pairwise comparison matrix to specify the weight of each criterion and rank them. Nine criteria and 22 sub-criteria had been identified through an extensive literature review to select an optimum location to transfer the facilities. A questionnaire survey was distrusted over professional academia and engineers, which helped build the matrices by using the relative importance index technique (RII). The areas that had been selected for the study are, Zekreet, Ras Brouq island, Umm Bab, Alnafayid, and Alshehaniya. After applying the AHP method, the results showed that safety is the most crucial criterion, and the sub-criteria were ranked individually in each category. Also, Zekreet got the highest weight, and Umm Bab received the least criteria weight.