Saudi Aramco invites firms to bid on $4.5 bln gas project

Saudi Aramco is tendering the main packages of a project worth $4.5 billion to expand gas processing capacity at Haradh and Hawiyah, MEED reported on Thursday.

Prequalified companies have until July 3, 2017 to submit their bids for four engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages, it was reported.

The project will build new gas compression plants at Haradh and expand the plant at Harawiah, enabling the facilities to process over 1 billion cubic feet per day (cg/d) of additional gas produced at the Ghawar onshore oil field, the world’s largest.

The Hawiyah Gas Plant Expansion project has an estimated budget of $1-1.3 billion, while the budget for the North Haradh, Satellite Haradh and South Haradh compression plants is estimated at $1-1.2 billion per plant.

Aramco is expected to tender fifth package to install the pipelines of the project at a later date.

The front-end engineering and design (FEED) study was carried out by Australia-based WorleyParsons, it was reported.