South Ghawar 230 kV Project
- Client
- Saudi Electricity Company
- Location
- South Ghawar, KSA
- Year
- 2021
- Services
- Power and transmission
About the project
Civil and electrical design for the 230 kV Aramco project in South Ghawar.
Scope of work
SDEC carried out the civil and electrical design for the 230 kV Aramco project at South Ghawar, undertaken for the Saudi Electricity Company. The work covered the gantry structures and their foundations, the substation equipment foundations, the routing and arrangement of the underground power cables at the GIS substation, and the trench and duct bank works, supported by calculations for cable sheath bonding, non-linear resistance and lightning protection.
Main deliverables
- Underground power cable routing layouts
- Power cable arrangement and details at the GIS substation
- Non-linear resistance calculations
- Cable sheath bonding scheme
- Trench and duct bank plans and sections
- Lightning protection system calculations and layouts
- Design calculations for gantry structures
- Design calculations for substation equipment foundations
- Foundation design for gantry structures
- Typical trench details for direct-buried cables
