Saudi Aramco wins Hamdan Bin Mohammad Award for innovative project management

Saudi Aramco has been awarded the Hamdan Bin Mohammad Award for Innovative Project Management for the completion of Phase one of its Master Gas System (MGS) Expansion project, Saudi Aramco said in a statement on Wednesday.

Saudi Aramco’s Vice President for Project Management, Fahad Al Helal received the award on behalf of Saudi Aramco from Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council at a ceremony held in Dubai.

The project employed a wide range of efficiency practices to deliver phase 1 of the project before schedule and under budget, the statement added.

The MGS project is a large-scale project undertaken to meet increasing demand for natural gas in Saudi Arabia, and in response to the Kingdom’s direction to complement oil with natural gas as a cleaner burning fuel.

The project includes a 660 km-long cross-country pipeline that will deliver natural gas from producing fields on the Eastern coast of the Kingdom to its Western coast. It also includes construction of two major facilities for compressing natural gas that are among the largest of its type in the world, Aramco said.