Australia's WorleyParsons has completed the front-end engineering and design (feed) work for a project to overhaul and expand a gas booster station in Southeast Kuwait.

The project is estimated to be worth $270m and will add a third train to Booster Station 160.

The station was originally constructed with two identical single-stage compression trains delivering 249 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) of sour gas from gathering centres 3, 4, 6, 7 and 21.

Contractors are expecting the main contract for the facility to be tendered in September 2018.

The project to add an extra train to Booster Station 160 is one of several projects in the pipeline aimed at strengthening Kuwait’s gas collection, transport and processing infrastructure.

Contractors are also preparing to bid on an overhaul of Booster Station 171. This project is estimated to be worth $300m and involves adding a gas sweetening facility to the booster station.

The facility will consist of two identical gas processing trains, each with a capacity of 60 million cf/d.

In January, the national oil company Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said the country is planning to invest $112bn in the oil and gas sector over the next five years.

It said Kuwait is aiming to increase non-associated natural gas production to 2.5 billion cf/d in 2040, from an expected 0.5 billion cf/d in April 2018 and 1 billion cf/d by 2023.