Project Profile
Value: $5-10 billion (estimate)
Location: onshore Abu Hadriya, Fadhili and Khursaniyah oil fields, near Jubail Industrial City, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Reserves: unknown
Production (fields): 500,000 bpd
Capacity: 1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and 80,000 bpd of hydrocarbon condensate
Production (facilities): 560 million cubic feet per day of sales gas and 300,000 bpd of ethane and NGL and 1,800 tonnes of sulphur
Start-up Year: 2008
The Khursaniyah program includes facilities to process and stabilize 500,000 bpd of Arabian Light crude oil blend from the Abu Hadriya and Khursaniyah fields.The facility also has the capacity to inject 1.1 million bpd of non-potable water for reservoir pressure maintenance.Khursaniyah began producing oil in August 2008. The program was accelerated using new contracting strategies for the gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) and the gas plant.
Saudi Aramco began construction on Khursaniyah oil and gas programme in September 2005. The NGL plant will process an additional one billion standard cubic feet a day of natural gas and 80,000bpd of hydrocarbon condensate. In addition, the programme will install central utilities, including two cogeneration units each with a capacity of 150MW as well as water treatment and steam generation facilities to serve Khursaniyah Producing Facilities (KPF) and Khursaniyah Gas Plant (KGP). KPF and KGP are the heart of the Khursaniyah programme.
Snamprogetti of Italy was selected for the Front Engineering and Design (FEED) project of the Khursaniyah production facilities and was also chosen to execute the construction. The scope of work includes building a central Gas-Oil Separation Plant (GOSP) and wet crude handling facilities to process crude from the three fields (140 oil and water wells), gas gathering compression facilities, a cogeneration plant, crude stabilisation and water injection. The project will treat 500,000bpd of crude oil and 450,000bpd of injection water. A consortium of Bechtel Overseas of London and Technip of Rome was selected for the FEED project of the Khursaniyah Gas Plant and also to execute construction. The work includes the construction of two trains of gas conditioning and ethane and NGL recovery with a total capacity of one billion standard cubic feet a day of sour gas.
The facilities will also produce 560 million standard cubic feet a day of sales gas and 300,000bpd of ethane and NGL and 1,800t of sulphur. The construction work has involved the building of 500km of gas, oil and water pipeline, 250km of flowlines, 300km of 13.8kV power line, cathodic protection systems, and new communications systems for voice and data. In addition to this has been the design and construction of the facilities themselves on the 49km² site, which has been fast tracked cutting 12 months off the building process schedule. The gas project was completed in November 2007.
Operators:
Saudi Aramco: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Snamprogetti: Front Engineering and Design (FEED) project of the Khursaniyah production facilities and execute the construction with scope of work including building a central Gas-Oil Separation Plant (GOSP) and wet crude handling facilities to process crude from the three fields (140 oil and water wells), gas gathering compression facilities, a cogeneration plant, crude stabilisation and water injection.
Bechtel and Technip: FEED project of the Khursaniyah Gas Plant and also to execute construction with the work including the construction of two trains of gas conditioning and ethane and NGL recovery with a total capacity of one billion standard cubic feet a day of sour gas
McDermott International: contract to provide the electrical power supply system for Khursaniyah fields