State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company has moved the closing date to submit bids for the construction of new mixing manifold for Jurassic Light Oil in Mina al-Ahmadi in the south of the country.

The new date is 17 January, revised from 3 January.

Seventeen companies have been pre-qualified to submit bids. They are:

• KCC Engineering & Contracting (Kuwait)
• Sayed Hamid Behbehani & Sons (Kuwait)
• Combined Group Contracting (Kuwait)
• HOT E&C (Kuwait)
• Khalifa al-Daij Al Dabbous & Brothers Company Limited (Kuwait)
• Integral Services Company (Kuwait)
• Consolidated Contractors Company (Lebanon)
• Almeer Technical Services Company (Kuwait)
• O&G Engineering (Kuwait)
• Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting (Kuwait)
• Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company (Kuwait)
• Gulf Spic General Trading & Contracting Company (Kuwait)
• Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Company (Kuwait)
• Arabi Enertech (Kuwait)
• NBTC (Kuwait)
• Finesco International General Trading & Contracting (Kuwait)
• Mechanical Engineering & Contracting Company (Kuwait)

The scope of work includes:

• Manifold
• Pipeline
• Valves
• Conductors
• Associated facilities