Mechanical Engineering and Contracting Company (MECC) submitted the lowest bid to execute upstream oil processing projects at gathering centres 9, 10, 20 & 22 in northeastern Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti firm submitted the lowest bid of $195m among seven qualified companies to carry out works on the centres for project owner Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The firms that qualified and their bidding prices are:

• Mechanical Engineering and Contracting Company - $195m
• Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Company - $238m
• Arabi Enertech - $242m
• Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting - $243m
• Integral Services Company - $247m
• IMCO - $256m
• Gulf Spic - $265m

KOC is building several gathering centres to support oil production, which the country plans to increase to 4 million barrels a day (b/d) by 2020. The Gulf state produced 2.8 million b/d in October 2016.