Name of client  : Bapco – Bahrain Petroleum Company, Aramco
Budget  : $350 million
Facility type  : Oil
Sector : Pipeline
Status  : EPC ITB
Location : Abqaiq – Sitra
Feed : WorleyParsons
PMC : Bapco, Saudi Aramco

Background

Saudi Aramco plans to build a new oil pipeline, which will be operated by Bapco, from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain to replace the existing AB-1 oil pipeline, which provides Bapco’s Sitra Refinery with feedstock crude oil. Bahrain currently imports about 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Saudi Arabia.

The new pipeline will have a capacity of 360,000 bpd. The 115-kilometre, 24-30-inch diameter pipeline will run from the Abqaiq processing facility in Saudi Arabia to Quarriyah and then offshore to Al-Jazayir beach and finally to Sitra in Bahrain. Nearly 60 km of the pipeline will be onshore, while the remaining 45 km will be offshore.

Project status

August 2015: Bapco receives prequalification documents from 13 local contractors for the Bahrain onshore route.

Project scope

The project, called the New Arabian Pipeline Project, is a 115-km long pipeline. It will have a design capacity of 350,000 bpd, with a provision to increase output to 450,000 bpd at a later stage.

The total length of pipeline is as follows:
• Saudi Arabian onshore, 40 km
• Saudi Arabian offshore, 40 km
• Bahrain onshore, 31 km

Project Finance

The project is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Bapco.

Project schedule

Feasibility Study   Q3-2002
Feed    Q1-2011
EPC ITB    Q4-2014
Engineering & Procurement  Q3-2015
Completion   Q1-2018