Dubai – Mubasher: Arabtec Holding, a Dubai-based leading contractor for social and economic infrastructure, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Target Engineering Construction Company has been awarded a SAR 280 million engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by Saudi Aramco.

Under the contract, Target will be in charge of upgrading and developing a produced water disposal facility at Qatif’s gas-oil separation plant (GOSP-1) in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Arabtec said in a statement to the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Sunday.

As per the contract, Arabtec’s unit will work on the installation of a water-oil separation vessel, water disposal pumps, water injection pumps, low-pressure de-gassing tank water draw-off pumps, and a pipeline to transfer oily water from Ju’aymah Terminal to Qatif’s GOSP-1, the company highlighted.

Peter Pollard, group CEO of Arabtec, commented: ‘We are pleased that Target has been awarded another project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strengthening our longstanding relationship with Saudi Aramco. This award adds to our pipeline of projects in the industrial infrastructure sector, consistent with our strategic priority to diversify our backlog.”