Name of Client : Saudi Aramco

Estimated Budget : $1,200,000,000

Facility Type : Gas Processingn

Sector : Gas

Status : Construction

Location : Hawiyah

Feed : Worley

PMC : Wood Group

Main Contractor : Saipem

Contract Value : $700,000,000

Background

The Hawiyah gas plant currently processes 2.5 billion cubic feet per day (scfd) of gas. The expansion project is meant to process an additional 1,260 MMSCFD of raw sweet gas from the South Ghawar Region. Once completed, contractors will have installed 2,900 km of pipelines, including construction and modification of multiple associated facilities.

Project Status

In Jan 2020, Franke-Filter was preparing to ship the final nine FF2-066 oil mist eliminators for the Hawiyah Gas Plant Expansion project.

Project Scope

It involves the expansion of Hawiyah’s processing capacity by 1.3 billion scfd, and mainly includes inlet facilities, two new gas treatment trains, dehydration and dew point control facilities, two sales gas compression units, high and low-pressure flare and flare recovery systems, steam turbine generation unit, expansion of electrical and non-electrical utilities, four new industrial support buildings, communications and network infrastructure, retrofit dehydrator vessels, SCADA-RTU systems and backbone connection to support the operation of the nine new gas compression plants (GCPs), seven liquid separation stations (LSSs) and three operational support and administration areas.

Project Finance

Saudi Aramco is the project client.

Project Schedule

Feasibility Study Q1-2014

FEED Q3-2015

EPC ITB Q1-2017

Engineering & Procurement Q4-2017

Construction Q1-2018

Completion Q2-2021