Construction of Saudi Aramco’s SR4.5 billion ($1.2 billion) Hawiyah natural gas liquids (NGL) project got to a start with a groundbreaking ceremony.

The project – a team effort of Saudi Aramco and contractors Snamprogetti, JGC, General Dynamics, Yokogawa, GE Nuevo Pignone and local contractors – will add several thousand barrels of petrochemical feedstock daily to the industrial cities of Jubail and Yanbu.
Expected to be completed in early 2008, the project calls for the expansion of the Hawiyah processing plant by 800 million cu ft per day (cfpd) to raise gas sales output to 2.2 billion cfpd.
Japan’s JGC Corporation was awarded a contract for the Hawiyah NGL and related facilities, consisting of three NGL recovery trains, product surge and shipping facilities, utilities, tank and the process control system. Snamprogetti will carry out the work related to gas treating and compression facilities to include inlet distribution, two gas treating trains, sales gas compression, electrical system and support facilities. Contracts for communication, plant infrastructure facilities and temporary camp and catering services were signed with local contractors: General Telecom and Engineering (GTE), Modern Arab Construction (MAC) and National Engineering Services and Marketing Agency (Nesma).
The Saudi-based Turkish Gama Al-Moushegeh Arabia has been awarded the SR243.7 million ($65 million) contract covering mechanical works on package two of the Hawiyah NGL project. The scope of works involves equipment erection, steel and piping and associated plant facilities.