The estimated $700 million to$1 billion project involves building a 100,000 barrel-per-day gas-oil separation plant, a gas gathering and compression complex and water-injection facilities.
The project will add an increment of 100,000 bpd of Arab super light crude by June 2008. A team of Australia's Clough Group with Houston-based S&B Engineers&Constructors and Saudi companies Al-Bilad and Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultants has prepared the front-end engineering and design package, according to the Middle East Economic Digest.
Aramco is scheduled to hold a job explanation meeting in mid-May in the oil city of Dhahran. A tender for the EPC contract is due to be issued in early June and will be followed by a bidding period of at least 60 days.
Located south-west of the giant Ghawar field, Nuayyim has estimated proven reserves of at least 250 million barrels.
The field was brought into production in early 1997 but the facilities were subsequently mothballed.
Nuayyim, with Hawtah, Hazmiyah, Ghinah and Umm Jurf all located in the centre of the kingdom is home to Aramco's Arab super light reserves. Production from the fields is linked to a central gas-oil separation plant at Hawtah, with a capacity of at least 300,000 bpd.
