Technip-Coflexip has been awarded, by Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), a major lump sum turnkey contract for the expansion of the Berri gas plant to handle additional output of sour gas from the Qatif field now under development. Technip-Coflexip will provide a low-pressure gas sweetening unit, two new sulphur recovery units, a new feed gas compressor, the revamp and capacity increase of the existing propane refrigeration unit, the upgrade of the existing sulphur recovery units to meet higher recovery rates, the upgrade of the inlet and flare facilities, additional sulphur storage capacity and the expansion of the
existing utility systems to serve the new facilities. Low-pressure gas sweetening capacity will thus be increased by 250mmscfd to a total of 871mmscfd for industrial consumption, while sulphur recovery capacity will be increased by 1330 metric tons/day to a total of 3313 metric tons/day. Technip-Coflexip services will include project management, detail engineering, procurement of equipment and materials, construction management, construction, pre-commissioning and assistance to commissioning. The overall project will be carried out by Technip-Coflexipâs engineering centre in Rome, with the construction being handled by the Groupâs local affiliate Technip Saudi Arabia. The project is scheduled to begin in early March 2002 and completion is slated for November 2005.
This contract falls within the framework of Saudi Arabiaâs âQatif Producing Facilities Development Programmeâ?, the primary objectives of which are to produce 500 million bpd of Arabian light crude from the Qatif field and 300 million bpd of Arabian medium crude from the Abu Safah field and to process respectively 330mmscfd and 40mmscfd of associated gas from the Qatif and Abu Safah fields as well as to produce additional sulphur at the Berri gas plant.
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