Saudi Aramco, the country’s state oil company, has selected Técnicas Reunidas to carry out an IGCC project (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle).

Spanish company Técnicas Reunidas has been awarded a large, $1.7 billion (€1.225 billion) contract for a project within the Jazan IGCC complex in southwest Saudi Arabia. This will be the largest such complex of its type in the world, capable of converting vacuum residue from the adjacent 400,000 bpd refinery into synthetic gas. At the same time Técnicas Reunidas is working on two other projects within the refinery.

The gasification unit will have capacity to produce 2.110.000 Nm3/h of synthetic gas (syngas), which will in turn be used to make purified hydrogen for the refinery as well as to generate electricity and for other services.

The facilities will be placed into service in 2017. The plant will have about 2,400 MW of electricity production capacity, which will largely be sent to the national grid.

This is the second contact received by Técnicas Reunidas’ power generation division from Saudi Aramco, following the Manifa cogeneration plant contract.

Saudi Aramco is the world’s largest oil company, managing over 260 billion barrels of reserves. It produces approximately ten million barrels of crude oil per day.