Aramco’s Haradh plant starts oil production
With 99% Saudi workforce, project completed ahead of schedule
Posted: 13 February 2006
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Oil started to flow through the new Haradh gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) 21 months after approval of the funding, Saudi Aramco said on Wednesday.
 When fully on-stream in second quarter of 2006, the plant will produce 300,000 barrels of Arabian Light crude oil per day and 140 million standard cubic feet per day of associated gas. A total of 520,000 bpd of treated seawater will be required for injection to maintain oil reservoir pressure.
It is the first plant in Southern Area Oil Operations (SAOO) to have completely automated well control and monitoring.
The construction contractor on the project is Saudi Techint Ltd., a local subsidiary of Techint International Construction Corp. of Buenos Aires , Argentina . About 43 per cent of the materials and service providers were Saudi businesses.
At the height of construction, more than 1,900 workers laboured on the plant, plus nearly 100 Saudi Aramco engineers and other professionals. Once the plant is fully operational, all of its employees will be Saudi.
Faysal H. Al-Khaldi, executive director of SAOO, said: "The fact that this project was completed ahead of schedule by a team comprising a 99-percent Saudi workforce from SAOO and the Project Management Team gives me a lot of pride and pleasure. We placed the best people on the job, people with high morale who took possession of the project and ran with it."
Saudisation was an integral part of the project. Many of the young engineers involved already had extensive experience in similar projects; they were tasked to transfer their knowledge and skills to even younger Saudi engineers and technicians who joined the project.
Abdulaziz S. Al-Jurais, superintendent of Hawiyah/Haradh Producing Division, added: “We all worked as a team…Lots of people have been working around the clock, seven days a week. It's been really tough, but the guys have proven that they are up to it — Saudi Aramco employees, contractors and vendors. It is now close to the end, and we will be extremely happy to see the final result."
No lost-time accidents were reported after 8.6 million work-hours spent in construction of the project.
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