The Fadhili Gas Plant

Name of Client : Saudi Aramco - Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Estimated Budget : $6.6 billion

Facility Type : Gas Treatment Plant

Sector : Gas

Status : Construction

Location : Eastern Region

FEED : WOOD

PMC : WOOD

Main Contractor : Tecnicas Reunidas, Petrofac, Abdul Ali Al-Ajmi Co., Arkad (formerly Saudi Kad), Al Muhaidib Trading & Contracting Establishment


Project Status

October 2019: Contractors working on the Fadhili Gas Plant project are expected to complete their respective EPC works in Q1 2020 followed by project commissioning in the same quarter.


Project Scope

Saudi Aramco plans to build a new gas plant at the Fadhili oilfield with a processing capacity of 1 billion standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of sour gas (high in sulphur).

Additional scope of work include the following:

• Raw gas inlet and processing facilities

• Natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation unit

• Sulphur recovery unit

• Dedicated co-generation power plant

• Industrial support facilities

• Fadhili downstream pipelines of 240km 56inch

• Residential camp

• Associated facilities


Project Finance

Saudi Aramco is the client of the scheme.


Project Schedule

Project Announced 1Q-2013

FEED ITB 2Q-2013

FEED 3Q-2013

EPC ITB 4Q-2014

Engineering & Procurement 3Q-2015

Construction 1Q-2016

Commissioning 1Q-2020

Completion 2Q-2020