Saipem awarded new contracts in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria

Saipem, 43% owned by Italian oil major Eni, has won new onshore orders worth 1.6 billion euro in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.

The Saudi Arabian company Saudi Aramco has awarded Saipem the lump sum turn key contract for package No 1 of the Manifa Central Processing Facilities (CPF) project, in the frame of the Manifa Field Development Program to increase the production capacity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by 900,000 bbls/day.

The Manifa Field is located approximately 200 kilometres north of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

The contract encompasses the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) of three gas/oil separation trains with a capacity of 300,000 daily bbl each, gas dehydration, crude inlet manifolds and the flare gas system.