Saipem completes network of gas pipelines in Saudi Arabia

Saipem has completed its work on a system of pipelines in Saudi Arabia to produce more gas for local consumption as an alternative to oil.
The service company said it had completed the South Gas Compression Plant Pipelines project.
Saipem has procured and built more than 700 km of pipelines of various diameters.
It also provided flowlines, trunklines and transmission lines, in addition to associated facilities.
These include liquid station separations, remote headers, gas-gathering manifolds and off plot tie-in facilities.
Saipem won the work in 2018, as one of a batch of contracts worth $800 million (€731 million).
Saudi Aramco announced eight agreements for work on the gas compression programme in the Southern Area in 2017.
Aramco said the project was to improve and sustain gas production from the Haradh and Hawiyah fields for the next 20 years, with additional production of 1 billion cubic feet per day of gas.
Aramco president and CEO Amin Nasser, speaking in 2017, said the work was part of the company’s plans to “introducing new supplies of clean-burning natural gas.
“These new supplies will help reduce domestic reliance on liquid fuels for power generation, enable increased liquids exports, provide feedstock to petrochemical industries, and reduce carbon emissions.”