KBR will provide feed and associated services for Kuwait Oil Company’s heavy oil programme at the South Ratqa field
State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded US-based engineering firm KBR a contract to provide design services for a project that is part of its heavy oil programme at the South Ratqa field.
Under the contract, Houston-headquartered KBR will provide front-end engineering and design (feed) and associated services for the project, which is part of KOC’s broader heavy oil programme.
Heavy oil was first discovered in 1979 in the South Ratqa field, with production briefly starting in the early 1980s before being halted by the Iraqi invasion in 1990. Operations resumed in 2006.
Kuwait is advancing an upstream project push aligned with its goal of producing 4 million barrels a day of oil by 2035.
MEED recently reported that KOC had extended bid deadlines for six key oil projects, estimated to be worth a total of $2.5bn.
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