Contracts signed with engineering, procurement, and construction firms to build the new plant north of Jubail, Eastern Province.

Saudi Aramco has reached another major milestone in its journey toward supplying the Kingdom with clean-burning natural gas for its energy needs to lessen its dependence on liquid fuels such as crude oil.

When completed, Fadhili Gas Plant will become a key component of the Kingdom’s Master Gas System, which will meet growing domestic demand for energy by expanding from its current 9.3 billion standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of sales gas in 2015 to 12.2 billion SCFD by 2021.

The signing ceremony of last week covered three separate packages:

- Inlet and Gas Treatment to be built by the Spanish firm Tecnicas Reunidas
- Process Utilities to be built by Tecnicas Reunidas
- Sulfur Recovery Units to be built by Petrofac International Ltd. (UAE).

The plant will process 2 billion scfd of Hasbah nonassociated gas and 500 million SCFD of Khursaniyah onshore nonassociated gas. It is expected to produce 1.5 billion SCFD (1,080 BTU/scf) of sales gas, 4,000 metric tons per day of sulfur, and 470 million scfd of gas to fuel an adjacent cogeneration plant, which will provide the plant power and steam requirements and to export about 1,100 megawatts of power.

The Fadhili Gas System will be unique in several aspects:

- Treatment system optimized to feed the Khursaniyah gas directly to the adjacent third-party cogeneration plant. This is in addition to the fact that the adjacent cogen power plant will be developed simultaneously and executed through a special purpose joint venture with a third-party developer as well as SEC.
- Environmentally, it is being designed with the maximum sulfur recovery of 99.9% utilizing the Tail Gas Treatment process.
- Using Power Recovery Hydraulic Turbine technology in place of conventional control valves to capture the significant pressure drop in the gas processing trains to generate energy.

Together, our Wasit, Midyan, and Fadhili gas plants will add more than 5 billion scfd of nonassociated gas processing capacity. This will enable opportunities in Saudi industries such as steel, aluminum, and petrochemicals, water desalination plants, electricity production, and downstream value-added industries to produce anti-freeze, solvents, fuels, and other advanced materials.

About Petrofac

Petrofac is an international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, with a diverse customer portfolio including many of the world’s leading integrated, independent and national oil and gas companies. Petrofac designs, builds, operates and maintains oil and gas facilities, delivered through a range of innovative commercial models, enabling it to respond to the distinct needs of each client and helping them to transform the value of their assets across the oil and gas life cycle. Petrofac’s service offering is underpinned by its ability to develop resource holders’ local capability through the provision of skills training with competency development and assurance frameworks. Around 20,000 employees operate out of seven strategically located operational centres, in Sharjah, Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Woking, Chennai, Mumbai, and Kuala Lumpur and a further 24 offices worldwide. Petrofac is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: PFC).

About Técnicas Reunidas

Técnicas Reunidas is one of the main international engineering and construction companies in the sectors of production of oil and gas, petrochemical and power generation for a wide range of clients worldwide. Since 1960 it has designed and built over 1000 industrial plants in over 50 countries.

About Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco, a fully integrated, global petroleum and chemicals enterprise, is the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Through our 80-year history we have become a world leader in hydrocarbons exploration, production, refining, distribution, shipping and marketing, and the world’s top exporter of crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs).