The complete development of the two fields includes engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of a total of 12 wellhead platforms, two tie-in platforms and one injection platform.

The work also includes a 36-inch 260-km long export trunkline, around 200 km of mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) pipelines, 200 km of subsea electric and control cables, 40 km of offshore flowlines, and around 120 km of onshore pipelines.

The fabrication activities will be mainly carried out in the yards of Dammam and Saipem’s newbuilt Karimun yard in Indonesia.

The offshore activities will be performed mainly by the Castoro II and Castoro Otto vessels.

Saipem has also agreed various increases in the scope of its work on existing E&C offshore contracts, added the company without specifying further.