Fossil energy – Safaniyah
The new project, named CRPO 93, includes brownfield work on the Safaniyah offshore field.
With 37 billion barrels of heavy crude in place, Safaniyah is viewed as the world’s largest offshore oilfield and is located about 200 kilometres north of Dhahran.
SaudiAramco has been carrying out the further development of Safaniyah through multiple phases as it aims to maintain the production profile and arrest the decline at the oilfield.
Several offshore LTA projects are said to be in the tendering stage, as Aramco is expected to scale up its spending on key brownfield developments in the country.
CRPO 93 is expected to include the EPCI of at least one sizeable production deck module destined for Safaniyah, associated facilities of subsea pipelines, cables and tie-in to existing facilities are also a key part of the upgrade job.