Saudi Aramco lets Khurais field contract

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 18 -- Saudi Aramco let a front-end engineering and project-management services contract to Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. for full development of Khurais oil field in Saudi Arabia.

The field is to produce 1.2 million b/d of Arabian light crude by 2009 as part of Aramco's program to raise production capacity from 10.5 million b/d at present to 12 million b/d by 2009 (OGJ, July 11, 2005, p. 22).

The contract, the terms of which were not disclosed, commits Foster Wheeler to build a grassroots central processing facility at Khurais. It also covers upgrading support facilities at the Ju'aymah gas plant and constructing interfield pipelines and facilities for product handling and storage.