Saudi Aramco signed a front-end engineering and design deal hiring Foster Wheeler to plan development for the Moneefa oil field with expectations that the field will produce 900,000 b/d of oil by the middle of 2011. The project includes both offshore and onshore elements. On shore the service company will plan a 170 MMcf/d gas processing plant with oil and gas separators with the capacity to handle Arabian heavy crude. That plant will handle 120 MMcf/d of sour gas, 50,000 b/d of condensate and 950,000 b/d of water. The field development includes 27 shallowwater drilling islands.
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