Saipem Karimun Indonesia Al Wasit construction platform HASBAH & ARABIYAH

MILAN, Italy -- Saipem has won offshore engineering and construction valued at over $2.2 billion.
In Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco awarded the company an EPIC contract under the framework of the Al Wasit Gas Program. This encompasses the offshore development of the Arabiyah and Hasbah fields, 150 km (93 mi) northeast of Jubail industrial city.
The scope includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, and installation of 12 wellhead platforms, two tie-in platforms, and one injection platform; a 36-in. (91.4-cm) 260-km (161-mi) export trunkline; and around 200 km (124 mi) of mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) pipelines, 200 km of subsea electric and control cables and 40 km (24.8 mi) of offshore flowlines.
Saipem also will engineer shore approaches and lay around 120 km (74.6 mi) of onshore pipelines.
Fabrication activities will be executed mainly by yards in Dammam, where Saipem is in a consortium with Saudi partners. Saipem’s new Karimun yard in Indonesia will handle the larger structures. Offshore activities will be performed mainly by Saipem’s construction vessels Castoro II and Castoro Otto


Al Wasit gas development programme, Saudi Arabia
ame and Location Al Wasit gas development programme, Saudi Arabia.
Project Description
The programme entails the construction of an onshore greenfield central processing facility, capable of processing 2.5-billion standard cubic feet of gas from the Arabiyah and Hasbah offshore gasfields to produce around 1.75-billion standard cubic feet of sales gas to meet market needs for local feedstock and support the national economy.
It comprises the building and installation of 12 wellhead platforms, two tie-in platforms, one injection platform, subsea power, communication links and a pipeline network.
Duration
Production start-up is scheduled for 2014.
Client
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco).
Key Contracts and Suppliers
Jacobs Engineering Group (sulphur recovery units); SNC-Lavalin (front-end engineering and design, and project management services); SK Engineering & Construction and Samsung Engineering (engineering, procurement and construction contract); and Saipem (engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC)).