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Saudi Aramco has created two specialised contractor groups: one for project management consultancy (PMC) and engineering services, and another for brownfield engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work.

The Saudi energy giant signed long-term agreements (LTAs) with selected local and international firms for the two pools at a ceremony at its Dhahran headquarters on 30 April, sources said.

The LTAs have a duration of five years, with an option to extend for a further three years, sources told MEED.

Firms that have secured LTAs with Aramco for the PMC and engineering services pool are:

• Engineers India (India)
• Fluor (US)
• IDOM (Spain)
• KBR (US)
• Kent (UAE)
• Sinopec (China) / Sinopec Nanjing Engineering Company (China)
• SNC Lavalin Fayez Engineering (Saudi Arabia) + McDermott (US)
• Technip Energies (France)
• Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain) / TR Saudia (local branch)
• Wood (UAE)
• Worley (Australia)

The scope and structure of the PMC service providers pool is similar to Aramco’s existing general engineering services-plus (GES+) group, which provides project management and engineering services – including concept studies, pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-feed) and feed – to support its capital programmes in Saudi Arabia across onshore greenfield and brownfield projects in gas, oil and new-energy infrastructure.

Contractors selected by Aramco for the LTA pool of brownfield EPC services are:

• Abdulhasan Group (Saudi Arabia)
• Archirodon (Greece)
• Bin Quraya (Saudi Arabia)
• China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (China)
• Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (Egypt)
• Engineering Procurement & Project Management (Tunisia)
• Gas Arabian Services (Saudi Arabia)
• GS Engineering & Construction (South Korea) / GS Construction Arabia (local branch)
• Kalpataru Projects International (India)
• Kent (UAE)
• Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India)
• M R Al-Khathlan Company for Contracting (Saudi Arabia)
• Max Streicher (Germany/Italy)
• National Basics Company (Saudi Arabia)
• New Horizons Contracting & Maintenance Company (Saudi Arabia)
• Sinopec (China) / Sinopec Nanjing Engineering Company (China)
• Technip Energies (France)
• Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain) / TR Saudia (local branch)

The scope of services covered under the LTA pool for brownfield EPC contractors includes the following activities across the kingdom’s Eastern Province and Shaybah areas:

• Onshore oil/gas/water well tie-ins and hookups
• Miscellaneous and capital projects
• Site preparation
• Power, communication, control, and security projects including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)
• Project management, engineering, fabrication, coating, procurement, material management and direct construction services
• Testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning and mechanical completion
• Camp and office construction, operations and maintenance
• Modifications, improvements and upgrades to existing onshore facilities
• Fencing and general onshore civil and structural works

The LTAs for brownfield EPC works span seven geographical zones:

1. Northern Area Zone NA-1: Includes plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Manifa, Safaniyah, Wasit, Abu Hadriyah, Fadhili and Khursaniyah.
2. Northern Area Zone NA-2: Encompasses plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Berri, Abu Ali Island and Qatif.
3. Southern Area Zone SA-1: Covers plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Dammam, Abqaiq, Aindar, Shedgum and Farzan.
4. Southern Area Zone SA-2: Comprises plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Haradh and Harmaliyah.
5. Southern Area Zone SA-3: Spans plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Khurais/Mazalij/Abu Zifan, Central Arabia/Hawtah/Layl, and Nuayyim.
6. Southern Area Zone SA-4: Incorporates plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Hawiyah and Uthmaniyah.
7. Shaybah Area Zone SHYB-1: Focuses on plants, pipelines, wells and miscellaneous projects in Shaybah.

Apart from these newly created LTA pools for PMC services and brownfield EPC works – and excluding the GES+ engineering group – Aramco maintains two prominent LTA contractor groupings for offshore and onshore oil and gas capital projects.

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