Saudi Aramco Signs Manifa Contract

Saudi Aramco has signed a contract with Belgium dredging contractor Jan De Nul to help develop the 900,000 barrel per day (bpd) Manifa offshore oil field.

Scheduled for completion in 2009, Jan De Nul will carry out dredging works in the Arabian Gulf before building several drilling islands and a 41-km causeway that will provide Saudi Aramco with a direct link from the coast to shallow-water offshore man-made drilling islands.

…The Manifa crude oil field is a grassroots development that will be developed all at once from scratch. The central processing facility will be constructed on a site where there is nothing now but desert, beach and one small communications building. Crude oil will be separated there from associated gasses, water and other liquids and will be shipped by pipeline to Ju’aymah.

In addition to the 900,000 bpd of crude oil, the central processing facility also will handle 120 million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of sour gas, 50,000 bpd of condensate and 950,000 bpd of produced water.

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