Fisia Italimpianti announces the start of Zuluf Water Treatment Plant

Fisia Italimpianti announces the start of Zuluf Water Treatment Plant

Fisia Italimpianti of the Webuild Group announced in a statement that it has officially started the construction phase of the Water Treatment Plant, as part of the huge Zuluf onshore oil plant complex in Saudi Arabia.

The ZULUF oil field, owned and managed by SAUDI ARAMCO, is part of a large development programme that began in 2018 within the “Saudi Vision 2030” growth plan of Saudi Arabia. The project awarded to Fisia Italimpianti last year, with the two contracts worth in total €408 million (USD 439 million), includes respectively building and managing the .

The formal construction start of the works for the new water treatment plant follows the engineering design, material procurement and carrying out of the preliminary activities that served to improve the soil’s characteristics, and that Fisia Italimpianti, in fact, has carried out during these last months, to allow the site to be able to host the plant’s foundations.

The plant will be located in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. It will treat up to 185,000 m3/day of water, which will be injected in the offshore wells, contributing to increase the production of the field’s crude oil. The plant will include a first water de-gassing system that will extract,