Saudi Aramco - COUR: Jafurah: Gas Treatment Facility: Phase 2: Package 1

General Information
Owner Saudi Aramco
Masterplan Project (Parent Profile) Saudi Aramco – Commercialisation of Unconventional Resources: Jafurah – Eastern Province
Location Saudi Arabia
Status --
Sector Gas, Downstream, Gas Processing Plant
Contract Type Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC)
Onshore/Offshore Onshore
Greenfield/Brownfield Greenfield
Progress 50
Estimated Budget Value ---
Contract Value 3625
Net Value $3625m
Award Date September 2023
Completion Date December 2026
Last Updated On March 2025
ProjectId (Old, New) 398044, 398044


Saudi Aramco is planning to undertake the construction of a gas treatment facility as a part of the Commercialisation of Unconventional Resources Jafurah Gas Plant in Saudi Arabia.

This profile includes package 1 of Phase 2 development.

The US$3625 million project includes the following:

1. Construction of three gas treatment trains, with a capacity of 700 million cf/d each

2. Installation of gas inlet separation

3. Installation of inlet condensate separator

4. Installation of coalescer feed pumps

5. Installation of booster compressor

6. Installation of Acid gas removal units

7. Installation of Hydrocarbon condensate stabilisation

8. Installation of Mercury removal unit

9. Installation of Dehydration units

10. Installation of NGL recovery

11. Installation of Sales gas compression units

12. Process and utilities above ground piping within the gas processing facilities

13. Electrical work, including new gas-insulated substation, main substations, unit substations and their associated equipment and electrical material

14. Instrumentation work, including expanding existing process automation systems, expanding existing PIBs

15. Steel structure work for main and unit pipe racks, in addition to equipment structures

16. Associated facilities

Second Section

21 March 2025

The construction works are still ongoing on the project and are expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2026.

18 December 2024

The construction works are ongoing on the project and are expected to be completed by the end of 2026.

22 October 2024

The construction works are ongoing on the project and are expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2026.

28 August 2024

Construction works are ongoing on the project and are expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2026.

25 April 2024

The construction works are expected to commence by the second quarter of 2024.

23 January 2024

The construction works are expected to commence by the second quarter of 2024.

05 October 2023

Construction works are expected to start in 8-10 months.

06 September 2023

Larsen & Toubro has been awarded as the main contractor for the project. (Source: MEED)

17 July 2023

The main contract bids are submitted. The following companies have submitted the bids: L&T, JGC, Saipem, Hyundai E&C , Samsung Engineering.

10 May 2023

The bids submission has been extended to June 2023 and the project is expected to completed by 2027

18 April 2023

The bids submission has been extended to June 2023

02 March 2023

The main contract tender is issued with the submission in April 2023. JGC Corporation and L&T amongst others are planning to participate.

10 January 2023

The EOI documents have been submitted by the following companies: Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Samsung Engineering, Daelim Industrial, Hyundai Engineering and Hyundai E&C, Saipem, JGC Corporation and Tecnicas Reunidas. The main contract tender is expected to be issued to the shortlisted companies very soon however the exact time-frame is not known.