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Contractors have submitted bids on five major oil projects in Kuwait worth a combined total of $6.55bn, increasing market confidence in activity in the country’s energy sector.

India’s Larsen & Toubro submitted the lowest bid on two contracts, while Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas submitted the lowest bid on another.

Kuwait’s Combined Group Contracting (CGC) submitted the lowest bids for the remaining two contracts.

The first project focuses on developing two facilities: Separation Gathering Centre 1 (SGC-1) and Water Injection Plant 1 (WIP-1).

Tecnicas Reunidas submitted a low bid worth $2.47bn for this project.

The Spanish company also submitted another bid worth $2.55bn.

One of the prices submitted was its base option and the second was an alternative, according to industry sources.

The full list of bidders for this project was:

SGC-1

• Tecnicas Reunidas – KD754,288,464.875 ($2.47bn)
• Tecnicas Reunidas – KD778,440,100.072 ($2.55bn)
• Larsen & Toubro – KD812,937,222.000 ($2.66bn)

The second project is focused on developing SGC‑3 and WIP‑3; a low bid of $2.48bn was submitted by Larsen & Toubro.

The full list of bidders was:

SGC-3

• Larsen & Toubro – KD757,000,316.000 ($2.48bn)
• Sinopec Luoyang Engineering – KD855,058,903.888 ($2.80bn)

The third project covers the development of effluent water disposal plants for injector wells.

The plants, known as EWDP-1 and EWDP-2, are part of a broader upstream expansion scheme.

Larsen & Toubro is the frontrunner to win this contract with a bid of $1.30bn.

The full list of bidders was:

EWDP

• Larsen & Toubro – KD396700353.000 ($1.30bn)
• Petrofac International – KD414,170,442.000 ($1.36bn)

The fourth project relates to a new network for injecting effluent water in North Kuwait’s Rawdatain region.

CGC submitted a bid of KD23.7m ($77.5m). The scheduled duration of the project is 30 months.

The full list of bidders was:

New North Kuwait Effluent Water Injection Network for the Rawdatain Area

• Combined Group Contracting Company (CGC) – KD23,700,000 ($77.5m)
• Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Company (Heisco) – KD28,000,000
• Mechanical Engineering & Contracting Company (MECC) – KD44,000,000
• Megha Engineering & Infrastructure – KD63,900,000

The fifth project is related to a new network for injecting effluent water into northern Kuwait in the Sabriya/Bahra area.

CGC submitted a bid of KD36.0m ($117.7m) for the project, which has a duration of 30 months.

The full list of bidders was:

New North Kuwait Injection Network for SA/BA Area

• CGC – KD36,000,000 ($117.7m)
• Heisco – KD46,100,000
• MECC – KD64,300,000
• Megha Engineering & Infrastructure – KD86,310,000

All five contracts were tendered by Kuwait’s state-owned upstream operator, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).

Bids were submitted ahead of a deadline on 30 September.

On 19 September, MEED reported that KOC was planning to close bidding for the SGC projects before the end of the month.