Saudi Aramco has awarded a contract to Lamar Holding to develop a seawater desalination plant.
The seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant includes a water distribution network and is a part of the Jafurah gas development scheme.
The project has a design capacity of 80,000 cubic meters a day and includes power and utility facilities.
It also contains an extensive water distribution network component, identified to extend 200 km.
The plant is expected to have a power capacity of 270-320 megawatts.
SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corp., a Chinese company, will be the assigned engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for the project.
Jafurah sits in the southeast of the world’s biggest conventional oil field, Ghawar. Its gas development scheme is part of Aramco’s $3.2 billion unconventional resources program that plans to endorse shale gas in 3 regions.