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At the 23rd World Energy Congress,
held this year in İstanbul, Tekfen Construc-
tion and Saudi Aramco, the Saudi petroleum
company, have signed a memorandum of
understanding marking the intent of both
parties to develop potential opportunities.
Signed on October 11, 2016, the memoran-
dum makes Tekfen Construction eligible to
bid for the engineering, procurement, and
construction works of Saudi Aramco’s fu-
ture projects.
The cooperation between Tekfen and
Saudi Aramco goes back to the early 1990s.
To date, Tekfen Construction has completed
various projects such as the Hawiyah Natu-
ral Gas Pipeline, the Cuaima-Berri Ethane
Gas Pipeline, the Harad Gas and Condensate
Pipelines, Quad-1 Pipeline, and the Yanbu
Refinery, successfully meeting the expecta-
tions of Saudi Aramco, which is known for
its extremely high standards regarding qual-
ity and safety.
New Opportunities with Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco, the largest energy company in the world, has signed a memorandum of under-
standing with Tekfen Construction to invite the company to the tenders it will hold in the future.
On with the records
Since its establishment in 1956, Tekfen Construction has com-
pleted numerous ambitious projects in pipeline engineering, and has
recently broken a world record at TANAP (Trans Anatolian Natural
Gas Pipeline) project. Tekfen, having already completed over 6000
kilometers of pipelines in many parts of the world, has successfully
joined a 2000-meter pipeline in 14 hours, setting a new world record.
Tekfen Construction has undertaken the construction of Lot 3
in the TANAP project, the 1850-km pipeline that aims to meet the
natural gas demand of Europe and Turkey, and has successfully com-
pleted a total of 145 welds with 5 welding stations and 16 welders in
one work day. This marks the greatest length of a 56”-pipeline joined
at one go with flawless welding. In addition, a 5-km section of the
welded pipeline was lowered in one piece, thus successfully complet-
ing a 10-km pipe-laying in a single day.
Tekfen Construction has also carried out the longest horizontal
drill in Europe within the scope of TANAP. With a riverbed width nearly
1100 meters, the Sakarya River posed one of the toughest phases of the
project, and was traversed underground using horizontal directional
drilling technique. In terms of pipe diameter (56”) and length (1100
m), this work constitutes the longest horizontal drill in Europe.
Tekfen Construction continues to break records at the TANAP project, crowning its expertise in pipeline engineering. Tekfen set the world record in the
number of automated welds completed in a day, while also carrying out the longest horizontal drill in Europe for the Sakarya River pass.