Italy’s Saipem has announced in a LinkedIn post that it has completed the “South Gas Compression Plant Pipelines” project, which is designed to increase the life of a large number of gas wells in the Haradh & Hawiyah fields in Saudi Arabia
The scope of work encompassed the procurement and construction of a system of pipelines of various diameters, with an overall length of over 700km, and included flowlines, trunklines, and transmission lines, as well as associated facilities for the transportation of gas from various points of storage and distribution inside the facilities, such as liquid station separations, remote headers, gas gathering manifolds, and off plot tie-in facilities.
The project presented challenges from a logistics, safety, security, and project management point of view, Saipem commented in the post.
It supports Aramco’s strategy to increase gas production by more than half over 2021 levels, through 2030, subject to domestic demand. Expanding natural gas production and supply is central to key Saudi Aramco strategic and energy transition objectives, including diversifying the Kingdom’s energy mix, providing feedstock for the petrochemicals industry and reducing dependence on oil for domestic needs such as power generation by replacing it with a cleaner energy source.
“Throughout this project, we have supported Aramco with reducing the use of oil and increasing the use of natural gas as the primary fuel for several local industries,” said Saipem.
Located in Saudi Arabia’s arid eastern desert region, the development known as “Haradh and Hawiyah Increment” extends across an area the size of a small country, and is raising the Kingdom’s daily gas production by around 1,360mn standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd).
