Petrofac Awarded Letter Of Intent For Gas Plant In Syria

Hayan Petroleum Company, which is developing the Hayan block in Syria, has granted a letter of intent to Petrofac for the award on a €291mn lump-sum contract to construct a gas treatment plant. The latter will be built on the Jihar field in the Hayan block, near the town of Palmyra, which consists of the gas, condensate, and oil fields of Jihar, al-Mahr and Jazal. Petrofac said its comprehensive scope of work would cover engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), pre-commissioning and commissioning, and start-up of the gas processing facilities. In addition to the plant, Petrofac will build an LPG recovery system, LPG storage and loading facility, gas gathering and collection systems, satellite gathering station, well site, flow lines, utilities and offsite facilities, gathering pipelines and living quarters. The project is due for completion in the first quarter of 2011. Petrofac has previously completed several EPC projects in Syria. Hayan Petroleum Company is a joint stock company owned equally between the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) and INA Naftaplin of Croatia (MEES, 10 March).

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