Client has awarded UK's energy and engineering services firm Wood Group a contract to help the oil giant deliver this field. Wood will provide engineering and project management services to develop the oilfield under the contract, which is effective immediately. The multimillion-dollar contract will last for five years.

Prequalified contractors are preparing to submit bids for the main EPC works for the onshore packages part of this development. Client has set a deadline of 30 January, 2019 for contractors to submit bids for the onshore packages. As part of this objective of the Marjan mega project, four of the onshore packages relate to construction of associated facilities for the proposed gas plant: - Package 9 covers provision of inlet, storage and compression facilities. - Package 10 relates to building systems for gas treatment and sulphur recovery. 
Package 11 calls for facilities for natural gas-to-liquids (NGL) recovery and fractionation. 
Package 12 pertains to provision of utilities, flare and pipe rack facilities. The four Marjan onshore packages mentioned above are understood to have a value of $375m each.
A sixth onshore scope  package 14, worth around $100m consists of providing sulphur handling and propane loading facilties. While Aramco is waiting to receive main contract bids by 30 January for the six packages, it is understood to have received bids for package 6, another onshore package relating to building of general oil processing facilities at the Tanajib oil complex, for which the deadline set was 6 January.