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Aramco asks for Jafurah

desalination plant bids

SAUDI ARABIA SAUDI Aramco has asked companies to submit cubic feet of gas (5.7 trillion cubic metres),
technical and financial proposals for work to around half of which is comprised of liquids. The
construct a water desalination plant dedicated field is Saudi Arabia’s largest deposit of uncon-
to the onshore Jafurah gas field. ventional gas.
According to a banking source quoted by The company is understood to have resumed
CNBC Arabia, the facility will have a capacity a major tender process for engineering, procure-
of 100,000 cubic metres per day, with local and ment and construction (EPC) work on Jafurah
international firms including ACWA Power, in August after contracting stalled in December
Veolia and Suez expected to take part in bidding, 2020.
though an award is not anticipated until late Q2 Larsen & Toubro of India, Italy-based Saipem,
2022. JGC of Japan and South Korean firm Hyundai
Under its preliminary $110bn plans, Aramco Engineering & Construction all submitted tech-
intends to kick off production at Jafurah in early nical and commercial bids in October 2020 for a
2024 and achieve 2.2bn cubic feet (62mn cubic ‘compression package’ covering three gas com-
metres) per day of sales gas by 2036. It is also pression plants catering to 600 mmcf (17 mcm)
expected to produce around 550,000 barrels per per day of gas and 150,000 bpd of NGLs and
day (bpd) of NGLs and condensates. condensates. However, the tendering process for
The first phase is seen producing 1.1 bcf (31 surface facilities was shelved two months later as
mcm) per day of raw gas, which will be processed Aramco sought to stem the bleeding from ongo-
at a facility on site. ing market uncertainty. Now, though, with prices
Aramco announced that it had received reg- buoyant, the company is keen to pick up where
ulatory approval from the Ministry of Energy to it left off.
proceed with the expansion of the Kingdom’s Meanwhile, a source at one of the companies
unconventional gas production capabilities in that bid for the work was quoted last month by
February 2020. The main focus of the initiative Energy Intelligence as saying that there “will be
is Jafurah, which holds an estimated 200 trillion news soon on Jafurah, it’s moving fast”.™

Source: GIS

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