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Aramco asks for Jafurah

desalination plant bids

JAPAN SAUDI Aramco has asked companies to submit around half of which is comprised of liquids. The
technical and financial proposals for work to field is Saudi Arabia’s largest deposit of uncon-
construct a water desalination plant dedicated ventional gas.
to the onshore Jafurah gas field. The company is understood to have resumed
According to a banking source quoted by a major tender process for engineering, procure-
CNBC Arabia, the facility will have a capacity ment and construction (EPC) work on Jafurah
of 100,000 cubic metres per day, with local and in August after contracting stalled in December
international firms including ACWA Power, 2020.
Veolia and Suez expected to take part in bidding, Larsen & Toubro of India, Italy-based
though an award is not anticipated until late Q2 Saipem, JGC of Japan and South Korean firm
2022. Hyundai Engineering & Construction all sub-
Under its preliminary $110bn plans, Aramco mitted technical and commercial bids in Octo-
intends to kick off production at Jafurah in early ber 2020 for a ‘compression package’ covering
2024 and achieve 2.2bn cubic feet (62mn cubic three gas compression plants catering to 600
metres) per day of sales gas by 2036. It is also mmcf (17 mcm) per day of gas and 150,000 bpd
expected to produce around 550,000 barrels per of NGLs and condensates.
day (bpd) of NGLs and condensates. However, the tendering process for surface
The first phase is seen producing 1.1 bcf (31 facilities was shelved two months later as Ara-
mcm) per day of raw gas, which will be pro- mco sought to stem the bleeding from ongoing
cessed at a facility on site. 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 tril- news soon on Jafurah, it’s moving fast”. ™
lion cubic feet of gas (5.7 trillion cubic metres),

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