MEED reported that Saudi Aramco has awarded a pre front end engineering and design study to the US/local Sofcon for the Phase I of a program to develop gas supplies from the Shaybah field in the Rub al-Khali.
The contract is for 6 months. Aramco will tender the Feed and engineering, procurement and construction contracts in 2010 or 2011. Under the plans, a plant with 6 natural gas liquids recovery trains will be built at the site between 2014 and 2033.
Gas for the facilities will come from the Shaybah field. Aramco estimates that the field holds 14.3 billion barrels of crude oil reserves and 25 trillion cubic feet of associated gas.
The field currently produces 500,000 barrels a day of oil but the associated gas is either flared off or re injected into the field.
Aramco said that it will build the plant in Phases IV to take into account the increases expected in the volume of associated gas produced from each barrel of crude from the field known as the gas oil ratio.
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2009/07/15/MTAyMjM0/Aramco_awards_contract_for_Shaybah_gas_plant_to_Sofcon.html)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Aramco awards contract for Shaybah gas plant to Sofcon
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