Under Aramco's direction, Fluor engineered the Shedgum plant and procured 800 major pieces of equipment, including vessels up to 357 long tons and pipe racks up to a mile long. Then, we managed the construction work that stretched from the completed Berri plant on the Arabian Gulf, 97 km down the coastline to the marine terminal fractionation center at Ju'aymah, and 193 km (120 miles) inland to another gas plant at Uthmaniyah.

Only two years into construction, there were 29 jobsites with 1,300 Fluor employees supervising Fluor labor and contract workers expected to peak at 25,000.

Four identical modules enabled the plant to process 1.4 billion cubic feet per day of gas. The craft workers and laborers who put these mammoth projects on the ground faced temperatures up to 54° C in the summer and shamals (storms of blowing sand) that could be as blinding as a blizzard.

Aramco chose to utilize the Fluor Econamine chemical absorption process to remove carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide from the gas. This process, employing diglycolamine (DGA), was superior because it was efficient at higher concentration without causing serious corrosion. It also operated efficiently at temperatures attainable at the site with only air-cooling.