Samsung secures $1.85bn EPC contract from Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco has awarded a $1.85bn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Samsung Engineering for a gas reservoir storage project in Saudi Arabia.

The deal is for Saudi Aramco’s Hawiyah Unayzah Gas Reservoir Storage (HUGRS) project.

The HUGRS project is located in Hawiyah, 260km east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

It includes a gas injection facility of 1,500 million standard cubic feet per day (Mmscfd) and a 2,000Mmscfd gas reprocessing facility.

The scope of work under the contract includes a gas injection facility equipped with booster compressors.

It also comprises injection compressors, a gas reproduction facility with reproduction compressors, as well as slug catchers, and off-site facilities.

Samsung Engineering expects to complete the execution of the whole EPC process by 2023.

Samsung Engineering president and CEO Sungan Choi said: “Samsung Engineering is honoured to receive this contract and believes that our previous regional experience, engineering excellence and partnership with the client lead to this order.

“Continuing to provide safe and quality projects, Samsung Engineering will ensure that this project will leave a mark in Saudi Arabia and will lead to building on our position in the Middle East overall.”

Entering service in Saudi Arabia in 2003, Samsung Engineering has since executed more than 30 projects worth $15bn.

In March 2018, Samsung Engineering secured two EPC contracts from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (Adnoc) wholly owned subsidiary Adnoc Refining, valued at $3.5bn.