Saipem announced in a statement that, it has completed the “South Gas Compression Plant Pipelines” project aiming to increase the life of a substantial number of gas wells in the Haradh & Hawiyah fields in Saudi Arabia.
Throughout this project, Saipem has supported Aramco with reducing the use of oil and increasing the use of natural gas as the primary fuel for several local industries.
The scope of work encompassed the procurement and construction of a system of pipelines of various diameters, with an overall length of over 700 km, and included flowlines, trunklines, and transmission lines, as well as associated facilities for the transportation of gas from various points of storage and distribution inside the facilities, such as liquid station separations, remote headers, gas gathering manifolds, and off plot tie-in facilities.
The project presented challenges from a logistics, safety, security, and project management point of view, statement mentioned.