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JGC wins EPC for Aramco’s Zuluf facilities

SAUDI ARABIA JAPAN’S JGC Corp. this week announced that been awarded two contracts worth a combined
it has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco $2.23bn by Aramco for oil-handling wellhead
to oversee the engineering, procurement and topsides, tie-in platforms, an electrical distribu-
construction (EPC) of facilities to support the tion platform and infield pipelines and cables for
expansion of the Zuluf oilfield. Zuluf.
The deal, which is understood to be valued at The project is one of several crude incre-
$2-2.5bn, was first reported earlier in the month, ment programmes currently being undertaken
but it was only confirmed by JGC on May 30. by Aramco as it looks to offset natural decline
The contract will see JGC lead the construc- to maintain production levels. The ‘Ain Dar and
tion of the Zuluf Arabian Heavy (AH) Increment Fazran reservoirs in the supergiant Ghawar oil-
Central Processing Facilities, which comprise field were tied-in last year, providing provide an
core onshore gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) additional 175,000 bpd of combined produc-
and utility facilities, including those for water tion capacity, while work continues on the Berri
injection. Aramco anticipates that the Zuluf (250,000 bpd), Dammam (50,000 bpd), Khurais
Crude Increment will add 600,000 barrels per (300,000 bpd) and Marjan (300,000 bpd) incre-
day of AH output by 2026, with the field cur- ments, which are seen providing additions
rently producing 550,000-600,000 bpd of Ara- between now and 2026.
bian Medium (AM) both onshore and offshore The company is working to expand maxi-
facilities. mum sustainable capacity from 12mn bpd to
JGC said that it would carry out work on the 13mn bpd or more by 2027; however, Aramco
onshore GOSP and utility facilities simultane- has suggested that the crude increment projects
ously, inferring that this was an influencing fac- will not account for this increase.
tor in Aramco’s decision. Elsewhere, Wood Group is carrying out
The award follows the announcement in front-end engineering and design (FEED) work
January that the UAE’s National Petroleum and project management services on a project to
Construction Co. (NPCC), a subsidiary of the maximise output from the Manifa and Safaniyah
National Marine Dredging Co. (NMDC), had oilfields.™

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