Kuwait invites bids for $3.6bn energy project

25 September 2017
Jurassic gas facility will process gas and oil

State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has issued an invitation to bid for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a project to build a $3.6bn facility in the country’s Al-Ahmadi Governorate.

The deadline for bids is 27 February 2018.

The project, called Jurassic Gas Facility: Phase 1, has a scope that includes a central processing facility (CPF), offsite facilities and a pipeline gathering system.

The CPF will have the capacity to process 590 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. It will be able to process 220,000 barrels of oil a day (b/d) and 1,200 tons per day of sulfur.

The following companies have been qualified as joint ventures to bid for the EPC contract:

  •  SK Engineering & Construction (South Korea) / Petrofac (UK)
  • Samsung Engineering (South Korea) / Larsen & Toubro (India)
  • Saipem (Italy) / Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)

The scheme is being developed to meet Kuwait’s growing gas demand. The government plans to produce more than 4 billion cf/d by 2030, primarily to meet power generation requirements.

Kuwait currently burns a large volume of oil products to meet its utility needs.

In December 2016, KOC awarded the US-based Black & Veatch a licensing technology and related services contract for sulphur recovery and acid gas removal units to support natural gas processing at the first phase of the Jurassic natural gas facility.

The initial phase is scheduled to be completed in 2021.

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