Gulf national oil companies turned final investment decisions into engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) awards at record pace in the week of August 10-16, 2026. For suppliers of petroleum testing instruments, the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia project pipeline is now one of the strongest demand drivers in the global market — and the laboratory packages that come with these projects are already moving through procurement.
ADNOC Gas Rich Gas Development: $13.2 Billion Program Moves to Execution
On August 10, 2026, ADNOC Gas awarded $8.2 billion in EPC contracts for Phases 2 and 3 of its Rich Gas Development (RGD) project — the largest single award cluster of the week:
- Phase 2 — $3.9 billion (Wison Engineering): a new natural gas processing train at the Habshan gas processing facility
- Phase 3 — $4.3 billion (Tecnimont / Maire): a new natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation train at Ruwais
- Total RGD investment now approximately $13.2 billion, including the roughly $5 billion committed for Phase 1
Both phases follow final investment decisions and sit inside ADNOC Gas’s broader gas growth program alongside Ruwais LNG, MERAM ethane recovery, and Estidama. New gas processing and NGL fractionation capacity means new process-control laboratories, product-quality labs, and custody-transfer testing — all of which require ASTM-compliant distillation, sulfur, moisture, and viscosity instrumentation.