Nitrogen Purging Services in Abqaiq

Abqaiq is home to one of the world's largest crude oil processing and stabilization facilities, surrounded by gas-oil separation plants, pipelines and pumping stations. It is an inland desert location, so crews deal with extreme summer heat and blowing sand, and work is planned around facilities that are critical to national crude supply and cannot be taken out of service lightly.

Crude stabilization and gas separation units in Abqaiq contain hydrocarbons and associated gas that must be removed before maintenance and before restart. Nitrogen purging clears these systems to a safe level and, because these units are critical to supply, we size nitrogen supply generously so purging never delays the return to service.

Our nitrogen purging services in Abqaiq use the same calibrated equipment, procedures and reporting we use on sites across the Kingdom.

Purging usually follows hydrotesting, when lines have been drained and need drying, and joints that leak during a nitrogen leak test are corrected straight away by bolt torquing.

See our step-by-step process for nitrogen purging