The Haradh Project
Mega, grassroots project, 280 kilometres southwest of Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran, begun in January 2000.
Haradh fully on-stream in June 2003, six months ahead of schedule.
Plant completion target of 37 months reduced to 31 months.
Excellent safety record - 49 million construction work-hours without a lost work day.
The project has a project quality index of 98.2 per cent.
The Gas Plant
Second Saudi Aramco gas plant to process nonassociated gas (gas produced directly from gas reservoirs and not a secondary product of oil production).
Designed to process 1.6 billion standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of a combined raw feed of sweet and sour gas. Can deliver 1.5 billion scfd of sales gas to the Master Gas System.
Can deliver 170,000 barrels of condensate per operating day to be transported to Abqaiq Plants via a 230-kilometer, 18/24-inch pipeline.
Plant consists of four gas trains to process the gas - two for sweet gas and two for sour Khuff gas. Sweet gas comes from the Haradh, Ghazal, Wudayhi, Waqr and Tinat gas fields. Khuff gas comes from the Haradh field.
Facilities at the plant, in addition to the four gas-processing trains that perform gas dehydration, dew-point control and sales-gas compression, include two gas sweetening and sulfur recovery trains, two condensate stabilizers and two sour-water strippers.
Upstream
There are 87 wells feeding into Haradh Gas Plant.
The wells are linked to the plant by three manifolds at Haradh, Waqr and Tinat.
Gas is carried to the plant by five gas transmission lines that total 130 km and by associated headers, trunk lines and flow lines.
Downstream Pipelines
A condensate pipeline from Haradh to Abqaiq, 18-and-24-inch, 230 km long.
Expansion of the Master Gas Grid includes five downstream gas 48- to 56-inch pipelines 394 km long.
Oil Development/GOSPs
Haradh is at the southern tip of Ghawar, the world's largest onshore oilfield, and produces Arab Light crude oil. Plans call for developing the Haradh area in three increments of 330,000 bpd. The first of these increments, Haradh GOSP-1 went on stream in March 1996. The second increment, Haradh GOSP-2, was commissioned in April 2003. The third increment, Haradh GOSP-3, is in the design stage and will be online by mid-2006.
The crude oil is gathered from 224 oil-producing wells, the majority of which will be completed horizontally.
The pressure support to the field is provided through a peripheral sea water injection program. The sea water is treated at the Qurrayah Sea Water Treatment Plant and transported 250 km to the Haradh injection facilities for injecting into 103 peripheral water injection wells.
