Shaybah Airport Runway Upgrade Project by Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

2020 PMI Project Excellence Award winner

Shaybah Oil Field is located deep in Rub al Khali the Arabian desert area known as the "Empty Quarter,” one of the world’s harshest, more remote environments. The locale may be brutal, but it comes with a big reward for Saudi Aramco. The field’s reserves are so vast that alone it could deliver the entire world’s oil supply for more than five months.

There was just one problem.

After two decades of use the crumbling runway at Shaybah Oil Field was threatening the oil giant’s aviation operations at the field.