Companies can bid for contract to treat oil spills
Kuwait National Focal Point (KNFP), the central committee to supervise the implementation of projects related to environmental remediation, is planning to launch an invitation to tender for a contract to clean up lakes of oil using specialist technology.
KNFP is going to invite companies to bid for the package in the first quarter of 2015, according to an official with knowledge of the process.
Through its approved contractors KNFP is going to be looking for a technology provider who will be able to treat leaked crude so it doesnt have to be landfilled. The most promising technology will be selected, the official said.
He added that the winner of the contract would be required to build two facilities in the south of the country.
This is going to be the first contract of its kind for the KNFP, which has been running studies looking at the effectiveness of various techniques including soil washing and bio-remediation.
The package is part of Kuwait Environment Public Authoritys (Kepa) $2.9bn Kuwait Environmental Remediation Project (Kerp) to clean up polluted soil and lakes of crude left over from the First Gulf War when retreating Iraqi troops set fire to hundreds of oil wells.
The fires burned for ten months before being extinguished, leaving behind a spill of around 22.5 million barrels of oil and damaging an area of 384 square kilometres.
Initially Kuwait planned to bury soil that has high levels of contamination, but due to fears that these large toxic landfills would cause problems for future generations Kuwait wants to clean the contaminated soil instead.
Contaminated soil from high priority areas that need to be cleared quickly is still going to be landfilled. Earlier this month the Kuwaiti multinational Alghanim submitted the lowest bid for the first contract to extract contaminated soil and transport it to landfill.
It bid KD28,363,164 ($101m) for the contract to remove sludge from an area where it is at risk of polluting a nearby aquifer.
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