Mega projects to increase oil by 1.9 million bpd of oil and petrochemical production by 68%
Posted: 13 February 2006
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When completed, Saudi Aramco's four mega projects will be strategically important not only to the company but to the entire economic development of the kingdom, says a senior project analyst. These projects, which are either under way or in the planning stages are Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery, Khursaniyah, Khurais and Shaybah Expansion.
 According to Timir U. Mukherjee of Project Management, when completed, these programmes will produce 1.9 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, increase ethane production as a petrochemical feedstock for industry at Jubail and Yanbu' by 68 percent, and add significantly to the Kingdom's supply of natural gas and condensate.
The Hawiyah Programme's aim is to provide more ethane for downstream industries and will require a new fractionation plant at Hawiyah, major expansions of the Hawiyah and Ju'aymah gas plants, and multiple pipeline expansions.
The Khursaniyah facilities, northwest of Berri Gas Plant, will add 500,000 bpd of production capacity from the Abu Hadriyah and Fadhili fields and a new gas plant to process one billion standard cubic feet of gas per day. This strategic project is expected to be completed in late 2007 in record time, he said.
At Khurais, the work sprawls about 300 km north to southeast of Riyadh and includes the Abu Jifan and Mazalij fields. In 2009, it is expected to add 1.2 million bpd of high-quality Arabian Light Crude to Saudi Arabia 's export capacity.
The Khurais program also will increase capacity of the Qurayyah Seawater Injection System by 4.5 million bpd of treated water for injection at Khurais and South Ghawar fields. To conceive of this volume, imagine 45,000 tanker trucks per day bringing water from the Gulf to the oil fields.
Mukherjee said that the Shaybah Expansion, slated to add 250,000 bpd to the field's current output of 500,000 bpd, sets the stage for additional expansion in the next decade to more than 1 million bpd from the field in the Empty Quarter .
The potential for private-sector job creation across the country is impressive.
Construction jobs for these programs should exceed 25,000 from mid-2006 through 2008, and peak at over 30,000, providing great opportunities for employment in the construction industry.
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