4,500 interlocks ordered

The contractor chose Sofis for this project because of the latter’s local engineering support and engineering capability. Delivering such a large-scale project requires close coordination between project teams and, with its regional office in Dubai, that was something Sofis could provide.

Also, as large as a project of this nature is, it still only represents a small proportion of Sofis’s annual production capacity. Following the recent merger between Netherlocks and Smith Flow Control, the newly-created Sofis’s combined manufacturing capability was strong enough to comfortably meet the order’s requirements.

The KOC programme covers greenfield and brownfield facilities, including engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and operations and maintenance work for the main central processing facility (CPF) and associated infrastructure, as well as the production support complex. This includes a 162-km pipeline to transport the heavy crude from the CPF to the South Tank Farm located in Ahmadi.