Saudi Aramco has been confirmed as awarding Italy's Snamprogettti a lump-sum contract worth an estimated $1.3 billion for the gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) package on the giant onshore Khurais field development, writes Nassir Shirkhani.
Aramco officials said a joint venture of US-based Foster Wheeler and Korea's Hyundai Engineering&Construction had also been selected for the estimated $800 million central gas processing facilities (CPF) package.
The GOSP contract entails building crude inlet facilities to process about 1.3 million barrels per day of wet and sour crude and four GOSPs, each with capacity of 330,000 bpd and 400 million cubic feet per day of gas.
The CPF contract includes building two processing trains to dehydrate 300 MMcfd of sour gas, three sulphur recovery trains and two natural gas liquids spheres capable of storing 70,000 barrels.
Aramco has already awarded a series of contracts on Khurais covering drilling and oilfield services, pipelines, offsites and utilities and seawater pump stations.
The Khurais development is aimed at delivering 1.2 million bpd of Arabian Light crude, 315 MMcfd of sour gas and 70,000 bpd of NGL.
At the same time, Aramco is inviting prequalified companies to submit bids for the contract to provide project management consultancy and front-end engineering and design services on the onshore element of its Manifa oilfield redevelopment in the Eastern Province.
The contract includes construction management and assistance in the procurement of long-lead items.
The shortlisted players include WorleyParsons, Foster Wheeler, Jacobs Engineering, Bechtel and Kellogg Brown&Root. A contract award is due by late November.
The estimated $9 billion Manifa redevelopment programme is scheduled for completion in 2011.
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