Japan’s JGC has landed a sizeable onshore engineering, procurement and construction contract from Saudi Aramco for work on surface facilities meant for the Saudi state oil giant’s Abqaiq plants.

JGC was awarded the prized EPC job for the Abqaiq Dew Point Control project, two people familiar with the development told Upstream.

The facility involves three primary processing units: an oil processing unit, an NGL facility and a utilities unit.

“The contract is awarded and a formal announcement is likely to follow soon,” one person said.

The project was the first to be offered as a part of Aramco’s long-term agreement (LTA) grouping for onshore contracts, similar to the country’s contracting arrangement for offshore projects.

The Abqaiq Dew Point Control project was tendered to EPC players that are a part of the Zone-2 region of Aramco’s prestigious onshore LTA arrangement, Upstream understands.

A second person said the project is expected to be worth upwards of $500 million and involves brownfield work on the natural gas liquids facilities that are a part of the oil processing plant.