WorleyParsons has won major orders from Saudi Aramco.

Saudi Aramco has awarded contracts for services to WorleyParsons for project management, front-end engineering design (FEED) development, contract bid package development, detailed design support, detailed design package preparation, and construction management services for the Saudi Aramco East Coast Refinery Project at Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia.

The purpose of the East Coast Refinery Project is to partially meet future Kingdom demand by producing fuel oil.

Major scope items include several grassroots units: 400-MBOD crude distillation unit, 210-MBOD vacuum distillation unit, 120-MBOD visbreaker crude unit, 50-MBOD continuous catalyst regenerator, 20-MBOD isomerization unit, 90-MBOD diesel hydrotreater, 30-MMSCFD hydrogen plant, 185-TPD (two trains) Sulfur Recovery Unit, 820-GPM amine regeneration unit, 225-GPM sour water stripper, and related utilities, controls, interconnections with existing facilities, flares, and tankage.

The project will begin on contract signing during the first week of December and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2012.

Saudi Aramco estimates the total cost of facilities will be $8 billion.

WorleyParsons' contracts are estimated to be valued at $80 million.

WorleyParsons International will furnish Out-of-Kingdom services at its offices in Arcadia, California and Beijing, People's Republic of China. Worley Arabia will furnish In-Kingdom services at its offices in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and at the Ras Tanura site.

"WorleyParsons is very pleased to be part of this important undertaking by Saudi Aramco," said John Grill, WorleyParsons' chief executive officer.

"Our company has participated in major hydrocarbons projects in Saudi Arabia since 1956. We will capitalise on our long history of achievement and tap our worldwide resources to deliver a project that represents all that is best in global execution."