Aramco says FEED KSA's largest gas plant on track

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A senior official from the oil giant Saudi Aramco has said that the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for what will be the largest gas plant in the KSA should be completed by the first quarter of 2011.

Reuters reported that Majid al-Mugla, vice-president of project management for Aramco said that the FEED for the Wasit gas development programme, being carried out by Canadian contractor SNC-Lavalin, is on track.

"The front-end engineering and design (FEED) would be completed between the third quarter of this year and the first quarter," Mugla is reported by Reuters as saying.

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When completed Wasit will process 2.5 billion cubic feet per day of gas from Arabiyah and Hasbah offshore non-associated gas fields.

Both fields have been fast-tracked by Aramco to meet the boom in domestic demand for gas in Saudi Arabia.