Turkey's Tekfen Signs Saudi Contract

Turkish construction group Tekfen has signed a $590mn contract to build satellite gas compression plants and pipelines for Saudi Aramco's Haradh gas field, with the work to be completed in 33 months, the company said July 31 in a disclosure to the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

Saudi Aramco began work in 2017 to expand production from the field with the aim of diversifying the Kingdom's energy mix and producing cleaner power. The Haradh Increment Programme, of which the Tekfen contract is part, is aimed at increasing gas production from the field by 1mn ft³ (28.5mn m³)/day.

That programme is itself part of a $4.5bn package of projects aimed at expanding gas production from the Haradh and Hawiyah over the coming 20 years.

Other contracts in the same expansion programme have been awarded to Snamproggetti (Saipem), Tecnicas Reunidas, China Petroleum Pipelines Company, Jacobs Engineering, Abu Dhabi-based National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) and McDermott Middle East.