Italian company Fisia Italimpianti has announced winning two contracts worth $439 million for the construction and management of a water treatment plant for Aramco’s giant Zuluf development program.
The contracts mark Fisia Italimpianti’s entry into the oil and gas industry and return to the operation and maintenance segment of the water sector.
The first contract, valued at $327 million, is a EPC agreement that will see the company construct a plant required for the Zuluf Central Processing Facilities, which is a part of the Zuluf field development program for Saudi oil giant Aramco.
The plant will treat, degas, and filter water for iron and suspended solids at a maximum production capacity of 185,000 cubic meters per day, and will be built for a consortium consisting of Almar Water Solutions and Aljomaih Energy and Water Co Ltd on behalf of Aramco.
The second contract, worth $112 million, involves the operation and maintenance of the completed plant for 25 years.
Fisia Italimpianti has a long presence in the Middle East, having built desalination and water treatment plants in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, providing potable water for over 20 million people globally.
The ZULUF onshore oil facilities water treatment plant in Saudi Arabia is expected to take three years to complete and will create approximately 1,500 direct and indirect jobs.
It will treat, degas, and filter water for iron and suspended solids, reinjecting it in the oil wells to maintain pressure and facilitate the production of Arab Heavy crude oil.