Saudi Aramco Khurais Oil Project Takes Major Step

…”The Khurais Crude Increment Program is the largest crude increment undertaken in the history of Saudi Aramco and is one of the largest industrial projects being executed in the world today,” said Mohammed H. Rabeh, manager of Khurais Projects. “It’s a key strategic program that will help us meet our commitment to the world’s growing energy demands.”

“It’s not every day we build a facility from scratch that will increase the maximum sustaining capacity of our oil production,” Rabeh said.

The program is expected to be a challenging one because of the large scope of the facilities, the extensive and diverse work locations and the short time scales involved. It is expected to be completed by June 2009.

At the first Job Explanation meeting with international contractors to be held in-Kingdom, company representatives discussed the scope of the two packages – the Khurais Crude Facilities and the Khurais Gas Facilities. They followed that the next day with a site visit to the Khurais area.

The mission of the program is to design, construct and bring into production safe and reliable facilities to produce 1.2 million barrels per day of stabilized Arabian Light (AL) crude and 4.5 million bpd of treated seawater for reservoir injection. Guidelines are in place, as always, to accomplish the task with the highest quality and the least cost, all on or ahead of schedule.

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