Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has invited international engineering groups to bid on a new project to inject water to increase production from the Burgan oil field.

Companies have been given a deadline of 13 December to submit engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) bids for Train 3 of the Wara pressure maintenance project (WPMP).

KOC completed the initial WPMP in 2015, carried out to enable the reinjection of effluent water into the Wara formation of the Burgan field in southeast Kuwait to increase pressure and boost production.

South Korea’s GS Engineering & Construction was awarded a $545m EPC contract on the project in 2011 to to build an effluent water collection, treatment and injection facility at the field.

The facilities comprise 10 water treatment units, 20 tanks, 60 pumps and up to 700 kilometres of pipelines, with diameters varying from six to 30 inches.

Train 3 will increase the capacity of water injection by 333,000 barrels a day (b/d) of water to 1 million b/d and includes work at the existing WPMP plant site, two effluent waste disposal plants, as well as new manifolds, pipelines and flow lines. 

The companies prequalified to bid for Train 3 of the WPMP are:

• Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)
• KBR (US)
• Chiyoda (Japan)
• Daelim Industrial (South Korea)
• Lurgi (Germany)
• SK Engineering & Construction (South Korea)
• Aker Kvaerner (Norway)
• JGC (Japan)
• SNC Lavalin (Canada)
• Petrofac (UK)
• Saipem (Italy)
• Samsung Engineering (South Korea)
• Hyundai Heavy Industries (South Korea)
• Consolidated Contractors Company (Athens)
• China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (China)
• Larsen & Toubro (India)
• GS Engineering & Construction (South Korea)
• Daewoo Engineering & Construction (South Korea)

The greater Burgan area contains about 70 billion barrels of oil, making it the second-largest oil field in the world, accounting for more than half of Kuwait’s total reserves of 101.5 billion barrels.

In August, KOC tendered the Gathering Centre 32 project, which will be built near the Burgan field. Companies have been given until 1 November to bid for the estimated $2bn scheme.