TradeArabia News Service reported that JGC Corporation and its subsidiary JGC Arabia have been awarded a large scale engineering, procurement, construction services contract by Saudi Aramco.

As per repot the contract is for large size utilities, storage and shipping facilities for the Central Processing Facilities at Manifa in Saudi Arabia.

The contract is a part of the Central Processing Facility of The Manifa Program, which calls for production of 900,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Manifa offshore oil field. Project completion is scheduled for the end of 2011.

The Manifa Program is a part of the major crude oil increment projects for Saudi Arabia. For this project, JGC plans to utilize JGC Gulf International, newly established in Saudi Arabia, to execute a part of the work in Saudi Arabia.

JGC Corporation is an international engineering and construction company based at Yokohama in Japan, having multiple operating centers and executing large scale projects world-wide.