Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has extended the deadline for companies to bid on sulphur treatment facilities at its Mina al-Ahmadi refinery.

KNPC tendered the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in late April, setting a bid deadline for 19 June. This has been extended twice with, bids now due on 14 August.

The project will include:

• Liquid sulphur storage tanks
• Liquid sulphur feed pumps
• Granulator units
• Belt conveyor system
• Longitudinal stockyard for solid sulphur
• Stacking machine
• Reclaiming machine
• Ship loader
• Associated facilities

The new project is connected to a previous contract to upgrade the solid sulphur-handling and ship-loading facilities at Mina al-Ahmadi, which was won by South Korea’s Daelim in 2013. The contract won by Daelim had a value of $519m.