Saudi Aramco is expected to award the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its estimated $400 million Uthmaniya pipeline network under the Shedgum and Uthmaniya gas compression programme by end of the second quarter of 2020, a source aware of the project has said.

"The EPC contract is expected to be awarded by the end of June 2020," the source told Zawya Projects, adding that the tender was released on 11 November 2019 with a commercial bid submission date of 17 February 2020, which has been extended thrice to 25 February, 4 March and 25 March 2020.

He didn't give the reasons for the extensions but said the project's completion schedule remains unchanged.

Jacobs has been mandated as front-end engineering design (FEED) while Worley parsons is the project management consultant, a second source told Zawya Projects.

The project is scheduled to be completed by third quarter of 2023, he added.

Gulf Consolidated Contractors, Saipem, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering, Nesma & Partners, Denys Arabia, CAT Group and Al Rushaid Construction Company are among the pre-qualified bidders for the project, officials from these companies confirmed with Zawya Projects.

The scope of work, according to information shared by the second source, includes laying of 440 kilometre (km) flowlines from the off-plant tie-in facilities at the well sites to the remote headers with 8-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch flowlines; laying of 190km trunk lines and transmission lines between the remote headers, liquid separation stations, Uthmaniya gas compression plant, with 20-inch, 22-inch, 24-inch, 26-inch trunk lines; laying of 26-inch, 28-inch, and 30-inch transmission lines; laying of RTR piping between the liquid separation stations and Uthmaniya gas compression plant with 6-inch, 8-inch, and 12-inch RTR pipelines.

(Reporting by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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