Saudi Arabian Oil Company has awarded contracts worth $10 billion for the Jafurah unconventional gas field development.

The deals comprise 16 subsurface and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the Jafurah Gas Plant and gas compression facilities, as well as infrastructure and related surface facilities, Aramco outlined. These contracts were awarded to domestic and international service companies and involve several projects to enable development of subsurface and surface components of the Jafurah program.
Aramco, which expects total overall lifecycle investment at Jafurah to exceed $100 billion, noted that the project is a key component of its long-term strategy. Jafurah is the largest non-associated gas field in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia