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oilandgasmiddleeast.com AUGUST 2019
contracts worth more than $4.5bn.
The larger contract, worth $3bn, falls
under the first package of the Marjan
Increment Programme and includes EPCI
work on a gas-oil separation plant (GOSP)
in consortium with China Offshore Oil
Engineering Company (COOEC).
The package 1 GOSP separation plat-
form is offshore, in the eastern flank of
the Arabian Gulf. The contract includes
the fabrication of over 165,000 tonnes
(150,000 metric tonnes) consisting of six
major topside platforms and jackets, 12
bridges and six bridge support platforms
and jackets, as well as over 40 miles (
kilometres) of 36-inch oil export trunk
lines and more than 55 miles (90 kilome-
tres) of 230kV composite subsea cables.
The second contract, worth more than
$1.5bn, covers package 4 of the Marjan
programme, which includes EPCI work for
offshore gas facilities and pipelines.
Marjan Package 4 represents the second
largest EPCI offshore contract awarded
by Saudi Aramco in the Marjan Increment
Development Project. The Marjan field lies
in the Arabian Gulf, off Saudi Arabia’s East
Coast.
The contract includes the fabrication of
three tie-in platforms and seven wellhead
platforms with a total weight of more than
61,400 tonnes (55,700 metric tonnes).
The scope also includes the installation of
subsea trunk lines and in-field pipelines
in excess of 330 miles (540 kilometres),
and the laying of more than 55 miles (
kilometres) of subsea cables.
The Marjan increment programme is an
integrated development project for oil, as-
sociated gas, non-associated gas and cap
gas from the Marjan offshore field.
This development programme includes a
new offshore gas oil separation plant, and
24 offshore oil, gas and water injection
platforms.
The company also plans to expand its
Tanajib onshore oil facilities and construct
a new gas plant, to include gas treatment
and processing, NGL recovery and frac-
tionation, and gas compression facilities.A cogeneration facility will be developed,
in addition to a water desalination facility
and new transfer pipelines.
The offshore oilfield development
project aims to increase the Marjan Field
production by 300mbcd of Arabian Me-
dium Crude Oil, process 2.5bscfd of gas,
and produce an additional 360 MBCD of
C2+NGL.
Through the Berri increment pro-
gramme, the company plans to add
250,000 barrels of Arabian Light Crude per
day from the offshore oilfield. The planned
facilities will, upon completion, include a
new gas oil separation plant in Abu Ali Is-
land to process 500,000 barrels of Arabian
Light Crude Oil per day, and additional gas
processing facilities at the Khursaniyah
gas plant to process 40,000 barrels of as-
sociated hydrocarbon condensate.
The programme includes a new water
injection facility, two drilling islands, 11
oil and water offshore platforms and 9
onshore oil production and water supply
drill sites.