French contractor Technip Energies has won a coveted engineering deal from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) for the next expansion phase of the giant Upper Zakum oilfield, sources have told Upstream.

The Emirati state giant is expanding the capacity of some of its largest offshore oilfields as a part of its P5 programme, which aims to ramp up its oil production capacity to 5 million barrels per day by 2027, from the existing 4.85 million bpd.

The next phase of expansion at Upper Zakum, the United Arab Emirates' largest offshore oilfield and the world’s second-largest, is expected to boost the field’s output from a planned 1.2 million bpd to 1.5 million bpd in the longer term, although precise execution timelines could not be confirmed by Upstream.