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Samsung wins Jafurah gas treatment EPC

SAUDI ARABIA SOUTH Korea’s Samsung Engineering this regulatory approval from the Ministry of Energy
week has announced that it has been awarded a to proceed with the expansion of the Kingdom’s
contract for the construction of a gas treatment unconventional gas production capabilities in
plant at Saudi Arabia’s Jafurah unconventional February 2020.
gas field. The main focus of the initiative is Jafurah,
In a November 23 regulatory filing, Samsung which holds an estimated 200 trillion cubic feet
said that the ‘package one’ contract covers engi- of gas (5.7 trillion cubic metres), around half of
neering, procurement and construction (EPC) which is comprised of liquids. The field is Saudi
works for the installation of a gas processing Arabia’s largest deposit of unconventional gas.
plant, without providing details about the facil- Larsen & Toubro of India, Italy-based Saipem,
ity’s capacity or cost, though the contract is esti- JGC of Japan and South Korean firm Hyundai
mated to be worth around $1.2bn. Engineering & Construction all submitted tech-
The plant will remove impurities from raw nical and commercial bids in October 2020 for a
gas produced from Jafurah, which will then be ‘compression package’ covering three gas com-
utilised as a feedstock for petrochemicals, blue pression plants catering to 600 mmcf (17 mcm)
hydrogen and for domestic power generation. per day of gas and 150,000 bpd of NGLs and
Tendering for the contract stalled in December condensates.
2020 owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) In October, Energy Minister Prince Abdu-
pandemic and was resumed in August this year. laziz bin Salman told the Saudi Green Initia-
Under its preliminary $110bn plans, Aramco tive Forum that the field would be leveraged to
intends to kick off production at Jafurah in early produce blue hydrogen as the country seeks to
2024 and achieve 2.2bn cubic feet (62mn cubic extend its leadership of the oil sector into hydro-
metres) per day of sales gas by 2036. It is also gen. “We are the biggest adventurers when it
expected to produce around 550,000 barrels per comes to blue hydrogen,” he said. Prince Abdu-
day (bpd) of NGLs and condensates. The first laziz added: “We’re putting our money where
phase is seen producing 1.1 bcf (31 mcm) per our mouth is on hydrogen. We have a terrific
day of raw gas, which will be processed on-site. gas base in Jafurah we will use to generate blue
Aramco announced that it had received hydrogen.”™

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