Aramco’s first fully automated plant opens
Posted: 27 March 2006
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The 300,000 barrel per day (bpd) Haradh crude increment was opened last week. The plant, which has a maximum production capacity of 300,000 bpd of Arabian Light crude, has a gas processing capacity of 140 million standard cubic feet (scf) per day of associated gas.
 More than 1,090 tonnes of structural steel and 3,100 tonnes of steel piping were used in the project. Approximately 160 km of new pipeline and extensions will transport crude and gas products from Haradh GOSP III to processing facilities in Abqaiq and 'Uthmaniyah.
About 150 km of new pipeline and extensions to existing conduits were constructed to transport treated seawater and produced salt water for injection to maintain reservoir pressure.
The control facilities consist of a main Control Room, a Main Electrical Switchgear Building, Plant Storage and a Maintenance Shop.
Haradh GOSP III is the first plant in Saudi Aramco to have full-scale, automated, remote well-control and monitoring, enabling wells to be opened, closed, choked, and controlled down-hole by a simple click, using the state-of-art SCADA system.
Approved in April 2004 and completed in January 2006, Haradh III was finished ahead of schedule and under budget
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