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Saudi Aramco, under an amendment to an existing framework agreement, has appointed Dubai-based Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Shair & Partners Holdings (Sidara) to provide consultancy services, including engineering, design, project management and multidisciplinary services for both existing and new infrastructure projects.

The amendment, issued in December 2023, provides for an additional five years of general engineering and project management services – infrastructure (GESi), with a three-year extendable option, Sidara said in a recent statement.

Aramco formed the GESi group in 2019 by inducting Sidara and Lebanon-based Khatib & Alami. Aramco engages the consultants to provide planning, engineering design and project management services for civil infrastructure projects such as roads, housing projects, offices and other buildings that support its oil and gas operations.

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Aramco also operates a separate pool of consultants, known as general engineering services-plus (GES+), that provides project management and engineering services – including concept study, pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-feed) and feed – to support Aramco’s capital programmes in Saudi Arabia across onshore, green and brownfield projects in gas, oil and new energy infrastructure.

Aramco’s GES+ pool, which has existed since 2012 and was expanded in 2019, consists of the following entities:

• KBR (US) / Abdulhadi & Al-Moaibed Consulting Engineering Company (AMCDE; local)
• SNC-Lavalin (Canada) / Fayez Engineering (local)
• Jacobs (US)
• Worley (Australia)
• Wood Group (UK) / Faisal Jamel Al-Hejailan Engineering (local) / Dar Al-Riyadh Engineering Consultants (DAR) / Petro-Infrastructure Engineering (PI Consult)
• Technip Energies (France) / Dar Al-Riyadh Engineering Consultants (local)
• Bechtel (US) / Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre (local)

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